32 stories by "Olivia Gibbs-Fairley"
Review: The Niceties, Finborough Theatre3.0starsIn the notes section at the beginning of Eleanor Burgess's play, The Niceties, she writes, "both of these women can be noble… resist the tem…
Review: Shida, The Vaults4.0starsThe Vaults, the hub of fringe theatre in London, is the new home for Jeannette Bayardelle's Shida. Fresh from a New York run, Bayardelle's one woman musical …
Review: Chiaroscuro, Bush Theatre5.0starsChiaroscuro is the first play directed by Lynette Linton in her role as the new Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre. While Chiaroscuro may be Linto…
Review: My One True Friend, Tristan Bates Theatre2.0starsMy One True Friend is the second of two plays by Alexander Matthews to be performed at the Tristan Bates Theatre this year. Matthews'…
Review: Styx, Playground Theatre5.0starsWith the Edinburgh Fringe Festival over, September brings a whole host of transfers to delight London theatre goers. One of these is Styx, the lat…
Review: The Importance of Being... Earnest?, The Pleasance Theatre3.0starsImmersive theatre is having a bit of a moment. From large scale productions like Punchdrunk's The Drowned Man, to in…
Review: Noises Off, Lyric Hammersmith5.0starsWidely considered one of the funniest plays in the English language, Michael Frayn's meta-farce, Noises Off, premiered at the Lyric Hammersmith i…
Review: The Crucible, The Yard Theatre4.0starsLike many people of younger generations, I first became aware of Arthur Miller's 1953 play, The Crucible, when I studied it for GCSE drama. Gett…
Review: Akhnaten, London Coliseum4.0starsAncient Egyptian culture is so strongly associated with a worship of a multitude of gods and goddesses (as well as pyramids, hieroglyphics and mummie…
Review: Good Women, VAULT Festival4.0starsThree women dressed identically in white, pray silently while religious music plays in the background. The lights dim and the show begins. The women…
Review: Jayde Adams: The Divine Miss Jayde, Soho Theatre4.0starsHow can someone who worked on the Asda fish counter become a diva? Be Jayde Adams; a dynamic, feisty, wickedly-funny Bristolia…
As is evident by the weather, Christmas is around the corner, and so too are the multitude of traditions associated with it; mince pies, Christmas songs and of course the Great British tradi…
Directed by Natasha Nixon, Macbeth is the latest production by the National Youth Theatre REP Company, and the final in its 2018 season (the two previous productions being Consensual and Vic…
It's no secret that the theatre industry has problems with diversity beyond the types of actors we see on stage. Playwrights, directors and producers are primarily white males, continuing th…
One can expect several things when going to watch a tragedy of William Shakespeare; it'll be long, there'll be at least one death and it'll be both a cerebral and emotional experience. Watch…
As I sat down to watch the Southwark Playhouse's newest production I couldn't help but feel rather 'cool'. Normal theatre goers hang out in the West End, but here, just a stone’s throw…
Since its original 1977 run at Hampstead Theatre, Mike Leigh's Abigail's Party has seen a large number of revivals as
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Two things come to mind whenever someone mentions Little Shop of Horrors: amateur productions (sometimes good, but mostly bad) and
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Although you might not think it from the current weather we are having, but the summer holidays are in full
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As I sit on a Bakerloo line tube on the way to the National Theatre, I can't help but feel
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Precious Little Talent, written by Ella Hickson, is one of three plays that form part of the Director's Festival at
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Shopping baskets brimming with fake flowers, gold trainers and a lone hanging microphone. A girl (Georgia May Hughes) runs around
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Britney Jean Spears. She's the pop princess that the '00s generation grew up with long before the emergence of Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Ariana Grande. She's one of those artists th…
Psychological thrillers often work well in theatrical environments " Agatha Christie's The Mousetrap is the world's longest running play currently in its 64th year. W…
Drag has always been prominent within the performing arts. In recent years, with drag culture becoming more and more celebrated and mainstream, thanks to RuPaul's Drag Race an…
