In The Passion of the Playboy Riots, writer/director Neil Weatherall imagines a meeting in the early 20th Century between W.B. Yeats (Loclann O'Grady) and Lady Gregory (Cath Humphrys), two o…
Diversity, or lack of it, in the elite is often talked about. The lack of BME representation in industries such as medicine, politics, judiciary and of course theatre and the arts dominates …
f a close relative's dying wish makes you physically sick, are you still obliged to carry it out? Sarah Kosar's play Mumburger explores how far familial obligation can go in the days and wee…
Seeing Bat Out of Hell the musical is not something you forget quickly. The tunes have been earworming their way around me ever since the opening night.
Thick and Thin's debut Brains showed a lot of promise as a satire of privatised healthcare and their new effort, Suckers is very similar except instead of zombies and privatisation we get va…
In the world of journalism, the story is everything. This lesson is drilled into us time and time again over the course of Ink, James Graham's latest play, which charts Rupert Murdoch's 1969…
William Gillie (Andy Secombe) is a charismatic and inspirational teacher running the only school in the Scottish mining village of Crult in 1950. Being a learned, professional man he has a c…
Is Food a southern Gothic? There's sufficient bitterness, sex, abuse, plotting and stifled secrets to see it as such. Its themes are plenty dark enough, and warrant warnings for disordered e…
Weiss is an experienced theatre and dance critic for the Chicago Sun Times. As a female theatre professional in an ethnically diverse city such as Chicago, her comments seem even more shocki…
I am very late to Herstory party, now in its 4th incarnation, Nastazja Somers (soon to be appear in Hope Theatre's revival of BJ McNeil's Torn Apart) curated a thought provoking, emotional a…
Guest Review by Jake Laverde Originally produced at Hampstead theatre, Richard Bean’s Kiss Me is making its west end debut. Kiss Me is a two hander set entirely in one London bedroom 1…
Time crashes into each other. Linear time ceases to exist. Past present and future elide. A triptych of female pain. Generations of hurt reach across the decades but can't quite cross those …
The play is wholly rooted in humanity"even as it outlines the consequences that can occur when humanity gets forgotten. In the primary narrative strand of The Enchanted, a prisoner tells us …
Westman and Jibson are not big names but both are very experienced actors; Westman was recently in Torn at the Royal Court, London and Jibson has many stage and screen credits behind him. Th…
Two minutes into Emma Rice and Knee High's Tristan and Yseult at the Globe and two men are dancing together, miming falsetto. One of them is a sexy-camp bad boy. We know he's a sexy-camp bad…
In the opening scene, the titular character's no-holds-barred description of her life as the forced wife of a man three times her age leaves the audience of Aisha in stunned shock. This inte…
Matthew Campling's work is set during Brexit and just before the 2017 election (presumably so we can all have a night off from wondering if Theresa May will still be Prime Minister tomorrow)…
Following the previous sold out and highly acclaimed three editions, HerStory FEMINIST THEATRE FESTIVAL returns to Theatre N16 on the 18th and 19th of June.
"I discovered I preferred my own words to interpreting the words of others, so I started writing plays. I had five produced in SA. When I came to England I needed to make money so I went int…
Twitstorm pitches itself as the 'hilarious exploration of what can happen when the self-righteousness of social media gets out of hand.' As a regular on Twitter, my interest was piqued insta…
Ordinary Days is a one-act musical in which four young New Yorkers who aren't quite happy with their lives sing out their troubles in just 70 minutes. The plot could be right out of Sex …
2017 seems to be the year for Pub Theatre with many productions transferring from small spaces above pubs to bigger spaces. Do you think audiences are seeing more pub theatre for a chance to…
Is it a bad sign when an award-winning Canadian play doesn't receive its European premiere for almost 30 years? You might guess so, especially when it's playing in rep on the unfashionable n…
Before Jam begins, the audience sees history teacher Bella Soroush (Jasmine Hyde) still in her classroom in the early evening, trying to settle down to mark essays but distracted by her unco…
Thanks in no small part to the seemingly never-ending glut of 'reality' talent shows that have pervaded our collective consciousness over the last decade or so, having suffered the loss of a…