Review: Horrible Histories: Dreadful Deaf, Bristol Old Vic4.0Overall ScoreI am so excited by the prospect of a live rendition of Horrible Histories, that I have to tell all my twenty-somethi…
Review: Freeman, Bristol Old Vic3.0starsA blank screen looms behind, and ripples line the surface: a river frozen over. We watch six figures clamber, grunt, spit and strain, bending and form…
Review: The Jumper Factory, The Weston Studio3.0starsBuilt in 1851, HMP Wandsworth is one of the largest prisons in Western Europe. It currently holds 1628 Category B prisoners. I did not kn…
Recently, I was discussing what's in store for me next year with a friend. I'm months away from graduation, and I couldn't be more terrified for its arrival. I said that the approaching Summ…
"We’ve got some difficult days ahead. But it really doesn’t matter with me now, because I’ve been to the mountaintop. […] So I’m happy, tonight. I’m not w…
Just because football didn't quite make it home this year, it doesn't mean it can't take a trip overseas. Sarah DeLappe's award-winning and Pulitzer-nominated play, The Wolves, is on the bri…
“[They cross the Andes]” So goes the seemingly unstageable direction from Peter Schaffer's 1964 epic The Royal Hunt of the Sun. The buzz of public scepticism and curiosity, which…
A Haunted Experience fits into an abandoned police station turned multi-purpose arts centre (The Island). I freely enter an installation which presents research into local and national narra…
"Why can't you fly now, mother?" Because I am grown up, dearest. When people grow up they forget the way." Â Peter Pan, J.M Barrie Mrs. Darling is a grown up, and being a grown up means t…
Annually curating a colourful array of pastel shaded sheep and musical marvels, Latitude Festival is famed for its idiosyncratic aesthetic. With a name that evokes the freedom of thought and…
The old saying goes that all you need for theatre to happen is an 'empty space'; but what if instead you find a big warehouse cluttered with curious cabinets and old train records? Mat Burt,…
Following an over-saturation of similarly-made fringe theatre, it's sometimes refreshing to see something a bit different. So Flemish artists Steve Salembier and Charlotte Bouckaert come alo…
It felt like the softest of hands had reached out, intertwined its fingers with mine, and squeezed as if to say: we get it. Patch of Blue theatre, alongside the National Autistic Society,…
A 2.4-mile swim, a 112-mile bike ride, and a casual 26.2-mile marathon to boot. These are the constituent parts of the Ironman triathlon, the event which Hannah Nicklin promised herself at 2…
Developed alongside real-life experiences of homelessness, Theatre Témoin's The Marked justly aims to shine a torchlight onto the often hidden psychology suffered by society's most vulnerab…
'How are you going to get down from there?' asks a small child in the audience of The Hogwallops. With a playful shrug, a smile in response and a rippling chuckle from the audience, it's thi…
It's a bold move. Taking direct inspiration from the most iconic Irish playwright of the twentieth century, Samuel Beckett, actor and writer Michael Laurence has undoubtedly set a high ba…
'Without knowing why, I love this world where we come to die.' " The magic signboard, in YÅkai*. I couldn't help but rise to my feet. In a world darkened by the deaths of treasured stars,…
An infuriated woman whose sister falls victim to revenge porn. A man who develops a porn addiction as a result of a failing marriage. And another lonely girl. These are just some of the voic…
Of course I was the only young adult in a monstrous mass of restless children. Of course the only other company available were the respective parents waiting to tire their children out, conv…
Dozens of loose pages fly, wondrously whirling round the furiously scrawling hand of an earth-bound airman, in memory of one of the world's most treasured storytellers. Wonderman injects the…