384 stories by "Daniel Perks"
Music spans generations, connects people through a love of the melody and the beat. It brings The Boy (Aaron Price) and The Girl (Rubie Ozanne) together in LOOP, Alexander Knott's newly writ…
Vixen is a homeless girl in a world that only seeks to take advantage. Vixen is a fiery redhead who can take care of herself, lashing out at any man that tries it on. Vixen eschews typical h…
n Sarah Page's production of Punts, the roles played by the two women are not the stereotypical ones we expect. This is a show about acceptance and tolerance, wrapped up in a somewhat comica…
A tale of affection and companionship: Daniel Perks reviews a play about life on Robben Island.
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Matt Parvin's debut play JAM looks into the future, when troubled teen Kane (Harry Melling) is all grown up and back visiting teacher Bella (Jasmine Hyde), who moved schools to try and get a…
It's both a lecture and a life-changing series of events, the story of losing your parents while teaching an attentive audience how to cope with and ultimately conquer grief. Mortality manag…
A chill-out that summarises the current state of Britain's chemsex scene " drugs, sex parties and damaged backstories are all part of the package. 5 Guys Chillin' is a verbatim consolidation…
This Is Not Culturally Significant was a highlight of this year's Vaults Festival. Adam Scott-Rowley delivers an exposing performance that simultaneously shocks and slays his audience. What'…
If you don't laugh, you'll cry. That's Laura Curnick's mantra anyway. Stand-up comic, her career is taking off, until she melts down on stage, confronted by the fact that she can't have kids…
A converted metal shipping container is an appropriate theatre for Under My Thumb, a show that traps six women in a prison cell without ever revealing why. Cassiah Joski-Jethi eludes to it i…
140 words per day. That's it. Short sentences, keep brief. Bernadette (Ivor) and Oliver (Slade) can't waste anything. Yet… sometimes nothing to say. Others… Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons L…
The opening is punchy; the dialogue sharp. Charlotte Josephine and Daniel Foxsmith jump right in " tales of revenge porn and teenage sex education fly out the gates. Josephine's writing is q…
A chill-out that summarises the current state of Britain's chemsex scene " drugs, sex parties and damaged backstories are all part of the package. 5 Guys Chillin' is a verbatim consolidation…
They appear awkwardly, all angles and monochrome; pallid faces, wide-eyed and cautious. There is an immediate comedy in their gloom, an abstract performance of heart-warming intent. After al…
The opening is punchy, the dialogue sharp. Charlotte Josephine and Daniel Foxsmith jump right in " tales of revenge porn and teenage sex education fly out the gates. Josephine's writing is q…
BoxLess Physical Theatre are a newly formed company, founded by graduates of Italia Conti's acting course. Their first show, LOOP, is a piece of unconventional movement and storytelling, a t…
Lucy Pevensie, Lucy Barfield and Lucy Grace " fictional child, real-life muse and storyteller, Lucy Grace embodies all three in Lucy, Lucy and Lucy Barfield. It's inspired by a magical tale …
All the kings are dead; all the heirs are dead " this is a particularly bloody time in royal history. It all centres around Richard III (Greg Hicks), the Machiavellian hunchback that lets no…
These are the people that scoff at Emma Rice, the ones that balk at such drastic notions as re-enacting Shakespeare in the modern day. Thankfully, GOLEM Theatre do not fall into such a categ…
Helen (Laura McKee) is a soulless beauty, Medea (Lucy Avison) a heartless mother and Phaedra (Niamh Branigan) a scorned wife. What characters Euripides put onto the stage, some of the origin…
Paul (Paul Thirkell) wanks to porn until he is a caught with his pants down (literally) by a ninja-clad invader brandishing a samurai sword. But it's all ok " she is just making sure he isn'…
Paul (Paul Thirkell) wanks to porn until he is a caught with his pants down (literally) by a ninja-clad invader brandishing a samurai sword. But it's all ok " she is just making sure he isn'…
The show opens to the sound of children's voices echoing dangerously throughout the theatre, whilst two characters give birth (and I mean this literally) to two black coffins, and therefore …
It is immediately obvious why Nell Gwynn is an Olivier-award winning comedy and it's down to one inspirational writer " Jessica Swale. An individual with a keen eye for context within the te…
One addition to Theatre N16's Wandsworth Arts Fringe programme is brought by Black Sheep Productions, a self-confessed 'Girl Gang of Creatives'. Their latest work, Full Circle plays at the t…
