291 stories by "Catherine Love"
Hope Mill theatre, ManchesterWith belting vocals and dazzling dance, this musical update jumps into a vivid Oz full of street art and neon lights
Director Matthew Xia's updated staging of Th…
Leeds PlayhouseWhen a pupil confronts his teacher after she fails to defend him from police, more questions are raised than can be contained in this drama
What does solidarity look like? In …
Available onlineA solitary woman finds a strange new presence in her remote house in this audio play which debates people v the planet, nature v culture
The stranger on the threshold is a dr…
Leeds PlayhouseWilson's play eavesdrops on the lives of an African American taxicab crew in a quietly compelling snapshot of men on the margins in the 1970s
Single-location dramas are all ab…
York Theatre RoyalA scrambled script and an over-reliance on dry ice leave this version of Sleepy Hollow tired and empty
Outside Sleepy Hollow, a sign implores visitors: "Don't pass by. Stay…
York Theatre RoyalTonderai Munyevu reflects on the men who have loomed large in his life in a thought-provoking show
'Where are you from?" It's a question that writer and actor Tonderai Muny…
Oastler Market Car Park, BradfordBradford-based performers use their passion for modified motors to explore the challenges faced by Muslim men in Britain today
There's a striking moment in P…
Rowntree Park, YorkA retiring park keeper seeks meaning in the wake of trauma in Mike Kenny's story of wartime loss
Last summer, York's outdoor Park Bench Theatre provided an emotional retu…
Royal Exchange theatreLauryn Redding weaves the musician's swagger with the storyteller's confiding tone to depict a thrilling summer of love
One of the reasons we go to the theatre is to fe…
Scarcroft Allotments, YorkThe performers' tail-wagging joy at being back in front of audiences can't sustain this uneven history of the canine show
In many ways, Mikron's touring model is id…
Leeds PlayhouseThe poet and actor are among six writers whose short monologues span the theatre's 50 years " from the Yorkshire Ripper to a post-lockdown future
As Leeds Playhouse welcomes …
York Theatre RoyalA mix of music, dance, comedy and poetry delivers a bittersweet reminder of what lockdown deprived us of " and a joyous celebration of live performance
On the screen at the…
Available onlineThis ingenious show featuring Mel Giedroyc casts its audience as board members of a charity and gives them a dilemma
It's a classic question: what would you be willing to ove…
Available onlineWhile outrage against misogyny flares up once more, this collection of audio works by the Royal Exchange theatre celebrates marginalised and unsung female figures
This year,…
Available online Viewers collaborate to chase clues and solve a deadly mystery in the follow-up to last year's Jury Duty
Online adventure and puzzle games " the socially distanced cousin of …
Leeds PlayhouseImitating the dog reinvents medieval wagon theatre for the 21st century " but it's more of an idea than a fully fleshed out story
Credit to imitating the dog for looking at th…
Old Vic: In CameraThe Sherlock and Fleabag actor is transfixingly tender in Stephen Beresford's skilful monologue, performed against an eerie, empty auditorium
Three Kings is an unusually q…
Rowntree Park, York This tangled monologue " delivered to a socially spaced audience with emphatic charm by Chris Hannon " is a diverting way to bring open-air theatre back to life
First Lov…
Available onlineThis half-hour play about call-centre workers is an unsettlingly effective study of the isolation inflicted by coronavirus
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This new…
As the writer and actor takes I, Cinna (the Poet) on to Zoom, he talks about how the pandemic may result in shaking up the structure of theatre for the better
'I always fly the flag of live…
Available online Manchester's Home stages a lockdown all-nighter exploring students' dreams, alongside time-capsule plays about spiralling social media horrors and disrupted lives
'We're al…
Available onlineJames Phillips's clash of near-future and Arthurian legend imagines patriotic nostalgia taken to extremes, if your nerves can take it
Extra tension is, understandably, somet…
Reinventing courses that rely on physical contact is a challenge, but digital training could be the perfect curtain-raiser into theatre's brave new world
Like so much else in this current cr…
This experimental piece plays out in comment threads delivered direct to camera and raises important questions about theatre on the internet
It's an odd bit of coincidence that Kieran Hurley…
Everyman, LiverpoolJosie Lawrence stars in Jonathan Harvey's story of the Domingo clan who have plenty of skeletons in their cupboards
As messed up families go, the Domingos are off the char…
