521 stories by "Shanine Salmon"
After being away for two years Sophie hasn't come to make amends for abandoning Sam but needs a couple of heists to make up for the £800k she lost in a job gone wrong. To complicate matte…
For limited run in May, Ugly Duck, a company known primarily for the use of abandoned and disused spaces host ProxC Productions Disconnect, A play asking the audience to vote on the fate of …
The best play I've seen so far this year is the Orange Tree's revival of 80s all-female comedy-drama Low Level Panic, so I had tentative high hopes for Lottery of Love, an adaptation of Mari…
A byword for licentiousness and excess, re-imagining this iconic figure for the 21st century is ambitious task. In his first non-Shakespeare stage role since 2004's the Pillowman, David Tenn…
Arthur Miller's 'forgotten' play is timely revived by Phil Willmott. Set in a detention room in 1942 Miller's 1964 play is the story of hope, rumour and sheer disbelief that anyone can be a …
he show follows 3 actors who are trying to stage, as the title suggests, an abridge version William Shakespeare's (fictitious) long lost first play, an unwieldy manuscript telling a convolut…
This story of race, religion and purpose after the death of a young man in police custody, seen through the eyes of his loved ones is an example of idea over story, where a concept engulfs t…
You know those badly translated Chinese signs you see on the internet, where something inoffensive in Chinese turns out to mean "Fuck Vegetables" in English? That's the starting point for th…
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5 Pounds Theatre's presentation of Leon Fleming's drama about two siblings manoeuvring the benefits system is a story that needs to be told but Fleming's poor story means the issues get lost.
I love theatre but I already question if it is getting enough of my money. Will donating for shows we haven't seen yet become the norm? Will Audience/Producer become a new title?
Bringing the memoir of Hollywood Legend Robert Evans to the stage was always going to be a challenge. How to do justice to the sweep of the story, from lowly women's clothing salesman to tin…
It is a very out of sorts piece. Strengths, weaknesses, timelines and locations are all explored by this one character in 80 minutes.
On 20 March, Network of Independent Critics launched the second year of their Edinburgh Festival scheme, inviting independent critics to spend a few days covering shows at minimal costs. I s…
It feels like Newport wrote one play involving Aoife and her ability to get whatever she wanted and clumsily turned it into a storyline about domestic violence. Why did the reality-bending a…
Metalmouth Theatre's monologue is very hot take on being a woman, a feminist and wondering if there is more to life. Alex Critoph plays a young woman hiding from the world.
I had high hopes heading into the Garrick; a comic classic by Molière with updated swipes at contemporary life, brought to life by a cast filled to bursting with comedic talent, some of it …
Good sound along with good lighting can save even the most budget stricken production. I recently attending An American in Paris and the sound suffered problems in the second number, I am no…
Former nurse Gina couldn't help it, she just had to help Gideon when she found him dazed and wounded on her Dalston doorstep. And he just had to stay in her flat when it turned dark because …
Stripping off isn't generally the first thing you do when you get to work but for naked house cleaner Ethan Mechare that was the point. As to what happened next, well, it could be just about…
Like the title suggests, Diary of a Teenage Girl is told from the point of view of Minnie Goetze. A 15-year-old girl living in 70's San Francisco whose sexuality doesn't so much blossom as b…
This devised production from director Lilac Yosiphon and Althea Theatre's cast of 8 has some excellent source material in the form of letters about love and conflict but it feels like an end…
The story at the heart of the show, at first seems quite simple but as she unpacks (sometimes quite literally), the varying aspects of it, the intricate and complex nature of the subject mat…
The production's prologue of shuffling music is a glimpse into the format of this play. We rarely stay in one place long, whether it is Katie telling us about her parents' erratic relationsh…
He's an entertainer remembered with great affection, perhaps by none more than Jack Lane, who's built a one-man show around the great man; a whistle-stop tour of his life and career.
