Review: Aisha, Tristan Bates Theatre
Review: Aisha, Tristan Bates Theatre5.0Overall ScoreAisha is a devastatingly powerful one-woman play about what it really means to be a victim of child marriage in the UK, not as an imperson…
Review: Aisha, Tristan Bates Theatre5.0Overall ScoreAisha is a devastatingly powerful one-woman play about what it really means to be a victim of child marriage in the UK, not as an imperson…
Review: Pinter 5, Harold Pinter Theatre4.0starsI suppose I should preface this by telling you that I've experienced more or less nothing about either Harold Pinter, or his plays. I once saw …
With delightful language and superb acting, two out of three elements are nailed in this production to make it an outstanding play. It now only needs a mesmerising plot to stress the signifi…
Linsdey Huebner talks to writer, Liv Warden about her debut play which focusses on the family of a man accused of sexual assault. The post Anomoly: “If that's in your genes, what does …
Sumptuous, salacious and utterly stupendous! Leave the kids at home, dodge your prudish boyfriend and don't invite Nana, because Club Briefs promises a raunchy night of high class cabaret, c…
Written in 2015, Sweat is Lyndsey Nottage's second Pulitzer Prize winning play, preceded by Ruined, written in 2009. The story is set in Reading, Pennsylvania, an industrial town in which ge…
Review of The Tragedy Of King Richard The Second, playing at the Almeida Theatre until 2 January. The post Review: The Tragedy Of King Richard The Second, Almeida Theatre appeared first on …
If it ever feels as though you're constantly losing things around the house, then you too might have Borrowers, says narrator Eddie, whose childhood memory provides the framework for Bea Rob…
Founder of national touring company, New Old Friends, Feargus Woods Dunlop writes about the power of social media and how it really can change your life. It did his. If you scroll through th…
Review of Rhapsody in You and Wrong Songs for Christmas, which played at the Print Room at the Coronet on 15 December. The post Review: Rhapsody in You and Wrong Songs for Christmas, Print R…
Weird is a one woman play that explores issues of mental health, specifically OCD, in an immensely accessible and intriguing way. The show starts when we discover Yasmin (Amy Doyle) has left…
"Children are being taught they have an inalienable right to be gay. All of those children are being cheated of a sound start in life." I was, ignorantly, shocked to hear a recording of thes…
Really Want To Hurt Me is a coming- of- age story about a gay teenage boy in mid 80s Exeter, or, I should say, tries to be a coming-of- age story about a gay teenage boy in mid 80s Exeter. W…
I've been sitting for a little while now, trying to express exactly what I think about The Convert, and it's proving difficult because everything I have to say feels cheap in the shadow of t…
I'm still feeling slightly frosty as I sit down in Alexandra Palace's recently reopened gloriously gilded theatre space, ready to enjoy a spot of Horrible Christmas magic. It's a massive spa…
This farcical two-man musical is highly entertaining and showcases quadruple threat performers; with superb acting and singing, genius piano playing, but questionable dancing. The only stere…
In the caffeine-scented offices of Mandy.com, Josephine Balfour Oatts shares a handshake and an encouraging conversation about the arts industry with CEO, Philip Large. A firm handshake, a s…
The Tell-Tale Heart is one of gothic virtuoso Edgar Allan Poe's best known and best loved stories. Poe's masterclass in the grotesque is re-imagined here by Anthony Nielson, in his first pla…
The Merry Wives of Windsor gets an Essex makeover complete with a shot of reality TV in Fiona Laird's adaptation filled with big hair, fake tans and good times. Â Shakespeare's comedy is t…
The Messiah is a hilariously unpredictable exploration of Nativity. Writer and Director Patrick Barlow succeeds in creating a piece of comedy that feels alive, feeding on and reacting to the…
We all know the story of Peter Pan, the boy who refused to grow up. It's a time-honoured favourite, especially at this time of year. With the show's popularity, expectations for any producti…
That Night Follows Day reminds me very deeply of a couple of lines by Philip Larkin- "They fu*k you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do." Honing in on the ideas of what i…
David Edgar's new adaptation of Dickens' classic 1843 novella returns to the RSC for the second year running with a new cast, after achieving critical and commercial success in 2017. Adapted…
The excitement and electricity that fills the space as you enter The Pheasantry cannot be ignored; the hustle and bustle in anticipation of the evening’s entertainment- Camp As Christm…
Hello again, Shakespeare! We sat down with actor, Leo Bill to find out what it was like working with a legend and whether there’s such a thing as ‘Bard’ overload. With The …