47 stories by "Joseph Winer"
Four stars A girl is clearing out her grandmother's basement following her death. The basement is a messy, unkept space,
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A woman in a swimming costume sits on a platform built within the sandy rocks on an island. A man in a red safety-guard beach top wheels around her on rollerblades. After a little bit of con…
Written and performed by Chris Woodley, this one man show tells Woodley’s own story about being a drama teacher, growing up gay and falling in love. He performs it with the structure o…
I have been trying to see this show for a while. This meant I was hyped. I had high expectations. And oh how well they were met with this absolute joy of a show. Jess and Joe (Nicola Coughla…
A spaceman (Lewis Garvey) is in a spaceship on a mission. We later find out that he actually started off as the scullery cook, but became commander on the spaceship via a series of unfortuna…
You’ve Changed, an auto-biographical story produced by Trans Creative and Contact, written and performed by Kate O'Donnell, is a personal account of one woman’s journey from havi…
This is a comedy sketch show, performed by double act Matt Stevens and Glenn Moore. The duo are asked in front of us what exactly their sketch show is about. Perhaps, it is about nothing. Or…
Tom Williams (Writer/Director) and Cordelia O’Driscoll (Composer) collaborate to create this new musical, a sort of cross between The Last Five Years and Sweeney Todd. The tale tells t…
Mr Danger’s Really Safe Show, a one man comedy family show for all ages performed by Sam Quinn, is a clowning dare devil performance show, using puppetry, wacky tricks and plenty of so…
David Byrne’s Secret Life of Humans combines the overlapping histories of the present, the past and the beginning of time to ask the essential human questions of what is real and what …
Jane Doe goes to a party and gets raped. She could be anyone, anywhere at anytime. This is an interactive show which uses verbatim court scripts and text messages, in addition to audience pa…
Donald Trump (Zach Tomasovic) sits in the Oval Office. His desk is smaller than usual. But it's also better, because this desk has two big buttons: the first brings diet coke, the second nuk…
The government imposes a new law: Brits can only speak 140 words per day. Oliver (Euan Kitson) and Bernadette (Beth Holmes) meet before the law is passed " at a funeral for a cat. Lemons Lem…
The term immersive is often found on marketing for shows that don't warrant the description. It is so loosely applied nowadays, that it is a joy to be able to genuinely sit within a piece of…
Milk is universal. From our first breastfeed to our last cup of tea, we're completely surrounded by it. Milk explores the need for three of our most basic needs: Food, love and survival. Ste…
Anna and Ben are like any normal couple, with Travesty showing us snippets of their relationship by letting us peer into the intimacy of Anna's bedroom. Nothing particularly interesting happ…
"You're not good. You're stained. But you're mine". One night, the police show up at a mother's door. She knows it. He's dead…. Until the police tell her he's not. Her son, who she thi…
"Soldiers die. Women give birth." A Boy Named Sue is a story about gender perceptions, sexuality and understanding the risks that come from not fitting in with the norm. Through a series of …
As we enter the installation, we are warned to keep our feet behind the lines which act as runway down the centre of the space and are told that, in a moment, we will be plunged into complet…
In an oppressed nineteenth century Germany, a group of children become teenagers, but with no real knowledge of the adult world or where babies come from, how can they possible protect thems…
'Tis Pity She's a Whore: Essentially Romeo and Juliet… with incest. John Ford's reflection of the sins of seventeenth century British society is cleverly transferred to Padua to mock t…
There's shows about shows, theatre about theatre and then there's [Title of Show], a musical about two guys writing a musical about two guys writing a musical. It's essentially Inception for…
