Review: Siren, Pleasance Dome
A woman in a swimming costume sits on a platform built within the sandy rocks on an island. A man in a red safety-guard beach top wheels around her on rollerblades. After a little bit of con…
A woman in a swimming costume sits on a platform built within the sandy rocks on an island. A man in a red safety-guard beach top wheels around her on rollerblades. After a little bit of con…
The brilliantly named Poor Michelle Theatre Company are a graduate company trying to make commercially viable work with a young focus. Their new show Harry, which premiered at the N16 theatr…
The Guildford 4 were wrongfully convicted for the Guildford Pub Bombings in 1974. It wasn't until 15 years later that they were released. Based on the letters Paul Hill sent to his mother du…
Following a troubled Glaswegian man with psychotic tendencies, Jelly Beans tries to delve into the what makes people do terrible things. But in reality it feels more like an explanation of a…
Sameer is Muslim and queer. This is the premise of this short two-hander written by Shafeeq Shahjahan and produced by Liver and Lung Productions. The themes in this play are without a doubt …
Not many productions work as pre drinks. The interval bar is all but lost at the festival, so it is up to the good women of Eggs Collective to ply their audience with shots. Get a round t…
Before Prom Kween even starts, I have glitter on my face and am singing along to the Spice Girls, the lyrics projected on a screen over images of famous RuPaul's Drag Race lipsyncs. This kic…
After an act of unfaithfulness, a seemingly ordinary British couple book a holiday together to try and salvage their relationship. We watch as the couple, Mark and Fran, attempt (a little lo…
It's Tom's 55th birthday, and his daughter, Sophie, prepares him for a visit by two of his friends. But Tom has an unspecified degenerative disease that affects his memory and understanding …
Written and performed by Chris Woodley, this one man show tells Woodley’s own story about being a drama teacher, growing up gay and falling in love. He performs it with the structure o…
When I was starting out, I wanted to be a writer but I didn't know how it worked. You didn't see jobs advertised in the newspapers stating "Wanted: Writer" and, coming from a single parent f…
"What if life was all a game, and none of the rules made any sense?" Created by Theatre Conspiracy in collaboration with Aurora Nova, Foreign Radical makes its UK debut at the 2017 Edinburgh…
"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…
The lights dim, and after what is possibly one of the longer blackouts in theatre currently, we see the frail figure of George Orwell (Peter Hamilton Dyer) deep in the clutches of Tube…
Wide-eyed, wide-mouthed, and completely in awe, a child no more than seven years old watches in amazement as a grown man in a skin-tight bee costume tells the angst-ridden story of losing th…
Heather, created by theatre company Dancing Brick, twists and turns around the story of an unexpectedly successful fantasy novel and the elusive author behind it. Rife with Harry-Potter-esqu…
Set up in order to "reflect the diversity of the real world on stage", Clumsy Bodies is a queer theatre company formed by disabled artists presenting their take on the ancient Iphigenia myth…
Leaving Milly Thomas' play Brutal Cessation, I glance at the playtexts sold outside the theatre. One line on the blurb catches my attention: it suggests that one of Thomas's main questions e…
Hull " 1997, 2007, 2017. Middle Child's part-gig part-show All We Ever Wanted Was Everything hop-skip-and-jumps across time, telling the story of Leah, Chris, and their parents, examining ec…
Bentley Browning presents a 12-step Tinder Rehab programme to guarantee you more success on Tinder, helping lonely hearts find love or strengthen an already existing relationship. He describ…
I have been trying to see this show for a while. This meant I was hyped. I had high expectations. And oh how well they were met with this absolute joy of a show. Jess and Joe (Nicola Coughla…
A spaceman (Lewis Garvey) is in a spaceship on a mission. We later find out that he actually started off as the scullery cook, but became commander on the spaceship via a series of unfortuna…
Founded in Budapest in 2012 by director and choreographer Bence Vági, Recirquel Company Budapest is a unique circus outfit that fuel its fusion of physical theatre and dance with the cult…
You’ve Changed, an auto-biographical story produced by Trans Creative and Contact, written and performed by Kate O'Donnell, is a personal account of one woman’s journey from havi…
Choreographer and theatre-maker Pauline Mayers invites you to take a moment and breathe. Stories of her past suspend the present and consider the future within a careful balance of dance and…