Lady Pamela More covers fashion and socialites for The Times and she has no interest in any other topic. As Britain's involvement in the war becomes certain, her disinterest in politics and …
Every Londoner has strong feelings about the tube. They love it, hate it, love to hate it, depend on it, avoid it, sometimes all at once. In Lines, Rose Bruford students pay homage to the un…
Solo performances are popular at the Fringe, and there are some good ones this year. So far, the best production I've seen this year is one-woman show Torch, celebrating womenhood in all of …
Oli Forsyth has a great script on his hands, despite a hint of judgmental condescension towards millennials. The script states they waste their lives on jobs they hate, have no cultural or c…
We're in a club toilet. Not a nice one, either " there's no loo roll, lipstick and graffiti pepper the cubicle walls and door. Jess Mabel Jones is an unnamed woman out with a friend, but af…
A nameless couple meet online, fall in love and build a life together. Their lives are comfortably boring, with day jobs, road trips to the beach, holidays in a Yorkshire cottage and lazy we…
The Wildean young poet Rupert Brooke revels in the self-absorbed, upper classes of Edwardian Oxford and London at the turn of the twentieth century. He finds virtue in beauty, love, poetry a…
Science and Mathematics. Vaccinations, space travel, electricity. Nuclear weapons, lethal injections, pollution. Poena 5×1 and No Horizon. One is a new play showing the dark potential of…
Gavin Plimsole is a good enough guy. A bit geeky and nervous but well-meaning, maybe even a bit endearing if you like that sort of thing.
The resourcefulness, determination and camaraderie of theatre people pulled together to reopen Battersea Arts Centre and raise funds. Now, a bit more than a year later, parts of the building…
Though this isn't an "awareness" piece per se, the humanity and insight into transgender transition Rotterdam provides is hugely important and valuable.
Every second of Pauline's journey of self-discovery from her pub in Oldham to Brazil in Two Little Dickie Birds is fraught with either ridiculous catastrophe or mundane daily life.
Tiffany's mum just died. Hugh's wife just died. Together, this father and grown daughter that barely know each other anymore need to arrange a funeral. In the midst of their nonfunctional, c…
British history is peppered with truly remarkable people. Kings, queens, writers, actors, scientists, athletes and military generals pepper school history books and cultural subconscious. Th…
The Salon: Collective are a grassroots group of artists that offer classes, workshops and produce work. United by American practitioner Sanford Meisner's post-Stanislavskian technique, they …
Tate and Max live in Tate's nan's flat above The Bedford pub in Balham. They're awkward, posh boys with little life experience, though they'd like to believe otherwise. When Tate brings Bill…
"War has changed, but it's effect on generations of women hasn't," writes Sarah Berger, founder and artistic director of So & So Arts Club. Military history is mostly dominated by men, …
Founded in 1989, dark cabaret act The Tiger Lillies are still going strong. For their current show, in conjunction with Opera North, two of the current members reinterpret Cole Porter songs …
Three young women, three short solo performance pieces, three stories of vulnerability make bare., a thematically linked evening of new writing. Each of the three mini-plays has a distinct s…
Civil war is raging in the formerly united, newly named Kingdom. Loyalists and rebels have divided up the charred, frightened remains. Religious fundamentalism and capital punishment are the…
Anthony Neilson didn't come into Unreachable rehearsals with a script, but an idea " a director obsessed with finding the perfect light. From this starting point, the cast sculpted a modern …
In this discourse on social class, parenting and gaslighting, playwright Phoebe Eclair-Powell incorporates Greek tragedy and a commentating chorus to expose the perils of growing up with no …
Shakespeare often seems to come in cycles, with several productions of the same play on at once in different venues. At the moment, it's A Midsummer Night's Dream though it's a common summer…
We don't often see Antipodean theatre on the London fringe, but when we do, it's certainly a bit different from British progressive performance. CUT, a cinematic, fragmented solo performance…
Ugly Lovely snapshots down-at-heel but aspirational Swansea with well-rounded characters who are excellently performed within a promising script, but it has a somewhat unsatisfying resolutio…