34 stories by "Hannah Margerison"
One eighteen-year-old is about to become a father, another is running away from his family home and a couple are having a lovers’ tiff over a karaoke version of 'You're all that matter…
“Are we nearly there yet?” asks the Boy, crouched in a bright green anorak and blinking wide eyed at the surrounding sea. The reply comes from a ukulele-playing polar bear sea…
Imagination is a seminal part of so many of childhoods. A stick becomes a sword with which you can slay fierce dragons; a cardboard box is a mighty ship used to flee from pirates; and you…
Ask a stranger on the street if they've heard of Eric Arthur Blair and there's a strong chance their answer will be a resounding no. Yet the Eton educated, upper-class, India-born Blair w…
Gay Furnish is a professional flirt coach. She puts people into three categories: introvert, extrovert and pervert. She points out the location of a clitoris on a toy rabbit. She is complete…
The theme, “What makes a murderer?” usually evokes grisly tales of Jack the Ripper or Sweeney Todd type characters, exploring their inner psyche penny-dreadful style. Molly bring…
It's no secret that most of our fairytales were considerably weirder before Disney got their hands on them. Everything from Cinderella to the Pied Piper has been dipped in sugar and happily-…
Love at first sight is phrase too often used lightly in a world obsessed with visuals. Blind Man's Song is a wordless snapshot into love in a sightless world, a production where visceral phy…
It's World War Two, the Blitz has just begun, and for the second time in a century, Britain is at war. But in Method in Madness, this takes a backseat as intense preparation for Hamlet's …