61 stories by "Samuel Nicholls"
Review: The Boss of It All, Soho Theatre3.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesOriginally performed at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe and Soho Theatre in 2013, the stage adaption of Lars Von Tr…
Review: The Racist In The Chat, Vulcanello Productions 3.0Stars H.P. Lovecraft is really having a 'moment' right now. Thanks to the explosive popularity of HBO's Lovecraft Country, the…
Review: Scenes for Survival - Aleister Crowley Summons the Devil, National Theatre of Scotland4.0starsIn Sonnet 58, Shakespeare made thoughts on 'waiting' apparent: "I am to wait, though …
Review: Scenes for Survival - Ian and Sheena, National Theatre of Scotland3.0starsIn the wake of the COVID-19 lockdown, much of the theatre industry's attention has been focused on the highe…
Review: The Secret Love Life of Ophelia, Greenwich Theatre Online3.0starsFirst performed in 2001, The Secret Love Life of Ophelia is Steven Berkoff's attempt to breathe depth and intimacy in…
Review: The Boy In The Book, Electric Dreams Festival / CYOD and TheSpace 5.0Stars First published in 1979, the Choose Your Own Adventure books by Charles Packard were a niche but beloved pa…
Review: Songs For A New World, Lambert Jackson Productions / The Other Palace4.0StarsConceptually, Songs for a New World is a tough sell: situated somewhere between a musical and a song cycl…
In our latest feature, Sam Nicholls speaks to the Artistic Director of Boundless Theatre, Rob Drummer about how merging both live and digital theatre could be the way forward. On Friday 3 Ju…
The creative industries are already an anxiety-ridden area to get into and this has increased ten-fold in recent months. A new podcast by Brighton-based company, LOOKOUT has been produced in…
Review: The Last Five Years, Lambert Jackson Productions 4.0Stars One of the last pieces of theatre I managed to see before the COVID-19 lockdown decimated normal life (and made live perform…
Review: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 3, Unicorn Online 4.0stars The third and final episode of the Unicorn Online's fantastic Anansi the Spider Re-Spun series, 'Anansi and the Pot of W…
Review: Anansi the Spider Re-spun: Episode 2, Unicorn Online5.0starsThe second instalment of Unicorn Theatre's online offerings, Anansi and the Two Dinners builds off the energy and charm of…
Review: Anansi the Spider Re-Spun: Episode 1, Unicorn Online5.0starsWhen Anansi the Spider was first performed at the Unicorn Theatre back in 2019, the world was a completely different place…
Theatre has had to adapt swiftly and intelligently now that people are confined to their homes for the foreseeable future. Here, Sam Nicholls considers where the future may lie. Is it virtua…
Review: Bare E-ssentials, Encompass Productions3.0StarsThe tenth edition of Encompass Production's reoccurring night of 'micro-theatre', Bare E-ssentials breaks the mould by being the first …
Review: Dem Times, Omnibus Theatre Online3.0starsProduced by Our Days, Dem Times is the story of Samuel Adjei, a British-born troublemaker forced by his parents to attend a rigorous Ghanaian…
Feeling like his theatre company was picking up speed, Jasper Frost was on cloud nine until the pandemic struck. He talks to Samuel Nicholls about what it's now like working with the 'Corona…
Originally performed at the 2018 Edinburgh Fringe Festival and later broadcasted on BBC4, It's True, It's True, It's True is the latest offering from Breach Theatre, a company that Lyn Gardn…
Theatres are closing all over the world because of the Coronavirus. Is this really the end of days or could the internet prove to not only be our saviour but the start of a necessary revolut…
Review: The Time Machine, The London Library1.0starFirst published in 1895, H.G. Wells' serialised novel, The Time Machine, not only popularised the concept of time travel, but in fact coine…
Review: The Importance of Being... Earnest?, Omnibus Theatre 4.0Stars When asked why he thought that the theatre was "the greatest of all art forms", Oscar Wilde responded that it was becaus…
Review: The Last Five Years, Southwark Playhouse 5.0stars Inspired by the breakdown of Jason Robert Brown's own marriage, The Last Five Years has been a perennial favourite of the musical en…
Review: The Apologists, Omnibus Theatre3.0StarsRemarkably, for an age where the 'art of the apology' is given almost equal attention to what's being apologised for, very little dramatic cons…
Review: The Sublet Next to Heaven, VAULT Festival4.0starsAs Hamlet famously said in one of the most widely quoted pieces of Shakespeare, "the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first…
In a new series of interviews with young theatre companies, Samuel Nicholls finds out what strategies they use to stand out in an over-saturated industry. This month, he talks to Mannequin M…
