41 stories by "Grace Patrick"
Review: Binaural Dinner Date, Rich Mix3.0starsSomewhere inside ZU-UK's Binaural Dinner Date, there is a very interesting idea. An exploration of the nature of human interactions – the …
Review: Bleach, VAULT Festival 3.0Overall Score Bleach begins from a point of confession. A sharing of a tale, with a fleeting hope that somehow, the narrator can find peace. We meet Tyler i…
Review: Counting Sheep, VAULT Festival5.0Overall ScoreHow is it possible to actually invoke another country? Despite a swift canvassing of the audience's various nationalities revealing a sc…
Review: Violet, Charing Cross Theatre3.0Overall ScoreI suppose my key issue with Violet lay directly in the story being told. There's something hard to swallow about the very core of it: a g…
Review: Brawn, The Space4.0Overall ScoreIt's hard to do a 'good' show about masculinity. It's very hard. All around us, masculinity and its impact on those surrounding it are experiencing a …
Review: Outlying Islands, King's Head Theatre 5.0Overall Score To be entirely honest, I went into David Greig's Outlying Islands, directed by Jessica Lazar, expecting a play about seagulls a…
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 …
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…
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…
Following its original New York premiere in 1950, Guys and Dolls has grown to be a show that is known and loved around the world. In fact, it's probably one of the most well-known stage musi…
What does it mean to place value on something? We can value things emotionally and we can value them in a monetary sense, but what does it mean to extrapolate the financial worth of an objec…
Written in 1948, Summer And Smoke by Tennessee Williams is far from one of his most performed works. Overshadowed by the likes of The Glass Menagerie and A Streetcar Named Desire, this play …
For the most part, I try to avoid the use of superlatives when I'm writing about plays. They're generally too strong, or bigger than what's actually needed. Additionally, if you don't use th…
It takes some self belief to decide to take on a novel like Dracula. It's one of only a few novels that have remained in print since its publishing in 1896, and it is undeniably well covered…
Drip Feed at the Soho theatre is, in a few different ways, painful to watch. I don't mean this as a negative comment – the play knows exactly what it is doing, and it enjoys it. The ma…
I don't know if it's because I'm not a twenty-something in a rocky relationship, or because I'm just not the right type of person, but I couldn't feel any genuine connection to Hedgehogs and…
