In Complicité Theatre's Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead, Kathryn Hunter keeps the audience engaged as her confidante and our gateway into shining a light on the anti-ecological p…
Written and performed by Collette Cooper, Tomorrow May Be My Last is an unabashed love letter to Joplin, and her legacy as a performer and human being. Anyone who knows anything about Joplin…
Using examples from the past 180 years, Four Poems From Ukraine oscillates between poems performed in English (by actors in London and Toronto), and Ukrainian actors performing in their nati…
The years following the 1929 Wall Street Crash left many Americans (and the rest of the world) facing economic hardship " a state of affairs that lasted right up until the Second World War. …
If you could meet your 15-year-old-self, what would you say? Would your point of view be any different from theirs? Or perhaps the only deviation would be time has honed your views with grea…
Given the nature of the show and its subject matter, The Quality of Mercy is an 'understated' affair. However, this is not a criticism or back-handed compliment. Quite the opposite. Flay has…
Lazarus Theatre Company's latest production of Doctor Faustus (which is directed by Ricky Dukes), takes place with modern dress, but retains Christopher Marlowe's original words (albeit in a…
Developed by Broken Silence Theatre for the digital segment of the Brighton Fringe Festival, Fragments is a triple bill of short audio plays celebrating playwrights from Sussex and the South…
While the title of Jasmine Lee-Jones' play is provocative by anyone's standards, there is more to it than meets the eye.
Ask anybody about the rights of disabled people, and most would say in principle that they should be given every opportunity to live life to the fullest. But given this assumption, why is it…
During one's formative years, it's not uncommon to 'fall in love' with a pastime or something that inspires a lifelong 'passion'. For some, it is Britney Spears.
Female-led theatre covers every topic imaginable, but one subject that you would expect to be insightful is what's motherhood REALLY like. The inception of The Good Enough Mums Club began se…
Halloween season is once more upon us and the London Horror Festival has plenty of macabre productions to satisfy the most dedicated aficionado. One show that stands out from the rest online…
Parodies of familiar tales are a well-loved staple of comedic storytelling. Everyone from the Carry On films to Spike Milligan and Mel Brooks have successfully employed this strategy, often …
Every person who has ever been diagnosed with cancer asks at some point "What do I do now?" and "How can I carry on?" While the 'tropes' of behaviour post-diagnosis are familiar to people as…
During the 20th century, absurdism and surrealism surfaced in literature to make pertinent points about human nature and 'the real world'. Prime examples include Franz Kafka's The Metamorpho…
In keeping with its nuanced writing, Colour shows how people of all backgrounds are susceptible to feigning civility, using acts of 'kindness', 'politeness' and even smiling to hide their in…
Originally conceived in 2018, the House of Blakewell's Everything Is Absolutely Fine is a fitting show to usher in theatre for 2021 and prescient in the way it broaches mental health issues.
An anthology of female-led black comedy, Obscenities (which is written by Venetia Twigg and Will Nash) is evidence of theatre's ability to adapt to our current Covid restrictions. Split into…
At the start of 2020, Southwark Playhouse commissioned five playwrights to pen brand new short plays for performance by the Elders Company, its weekly drama group for anyone aged 65 and over.
Written by Lorna Wells and directed by Aisling Gallagher, Illusions of Liberty focuses on Liberty Jones (Corinne Walker) " a young cellist who has just had test results from doctors regardin…
First performed on stage in 2015, (Fire) Embers (Ash) " which is written and directed by Hailey Mashburn " has been reimagined as an audio play for 2021.
As part of the digital Living Record Festival Covert Firmament's contribution includes 40 separate plays and films, which are written and directed by Dan Horrigan. These include three audio …
To all the artistic directors out there, let's have more plays like S-27 at the Finborough Theatre that have something to say about the world today.
Originally performed in Edinburgh in 2019, Caroline Horton's All Of Me returns in two different formats " as an interactive digital version hosted on gaming platform Twine and as an audio ve…