Calling the play "Love" would mean the horror of upper case, a masculine take on a universal. Why are we talking about gendered language? Because it's the play's structuring theme.
Another year, another Hamlet. In recent times Benedict, David, Jude and Rory have joined the many actors who want to show us their Dane.
This Stylish thriller, from Rusted Dust, isn't so much a whodunit but whydunnit. When the body of a young woman is found on the train tracks of a Northern town in post-war Britain...
Ionesco's work finds the absurd in the mundane and highlights it. This dinner party with no dinner (but generous and replenished helpings of wine) certainly fit the bill.
There's intimate, then there's The Hope Theatre. With a capacity of just 50 seats, the audience at this small North London venue find themselves physically emerged in whichever narrative is …
Puppy is the story of lesbianism, feminism and porn in a patriarchal world. Naomi Westerman's piece, produced by Little But Fierce, is unashamedly open about sex and sexuality.
The play adapts Jenet's The Maids as it takes the obsession with a rich employer to an obsession with celebrity, which is relevant at a time where it feels like we know a celebrity's every m…
"Lizzie Borden took an axe, gave her father forty whacks. When she saw what she had done, gave her father forty-one." These words, taken from a popular folk rhyme, are the first that we hear…
Whilst I am not the biggest dance fan (I went to a Great Gatsby ballet once though and I LOVED Some Like It Hip Hop) I am a bit of politics geek and End of Dance seemed like it was going to …
Toby Boutall's play recreates this psychic prison with such fidelity that one can almost touch the walls and smell the faeces smeared thereon.
Naomi Westerman's one-woman play looks at life after being kidnapped and held captive, not only whether you can live a fully normal life but the world's expectations and preconceptions about…
If the material in Robyn Paterson's one-woman play feels quaint, then her performance is anything but. It's an impressive act of virtuosity and memory that flits between each half of a pensi…
Does Adam Scott-Rowley need to be naked for the duration of this absurdist monologue, as he shapeshifts between comic grotesques for a state of the nation dickaround? Is it a patron baiting …
The main issue I had with Summer Nights in Space was how incomplete and earnest it felt. It fails to generate laughs and is too lo-fi to become a camp classic, a la Rocky Horror Show.
'Wheel of Fortune' gimmick and great performances distract the audience from the pedestrian storylines. This play must have been bold and daring in its 1920 premiere but for a 21st century a…
Blackeyed Theatre's production strips away any added features from adapted movies, shows and other projects about Victor Frankenstein and simply tells the tale as Mary Shelly originally wrot…
Denzel Washington stars in and directs the film adaptation, bringing with him the majority of the theatrical cast of the 2010 New York production.
Shunning chemotherapy for Rioja and her beloved Brahms for endless TV boxsets, Hester (Bridget Forsyth) is a woman ageing disgracefully.
Throughout the night, the famous story of The Great Gatsby is told. However, how you see the tale is entirely up to you.
Hyper-conceptual fringe theatre can be a fascinating brand of performance art, filled with new ideas that push boundaries and challenge our notions of what theatre can be. Yet, sometimes it …
Which mammal makes the creepiest sound? If you guessed the fox, you'd be right. Playwright Titas Halder seems to have picked the perfect animal to represent his protagonist's psychological s…
There's no need to flirt with the critics on this one. The show's charming all on its own.
Julian Fellowes has defended the all-white casting on Half a Sixpence by stating "It is in keeping with period". Whilst Fellowes justification may make sense to him, it sounds ridiculous to …
In art, marketing is often used as a metaphor for a sense that we all inhabit a meaningless, shallow culture. And so it is in Focus Group where the audience are less immersed than they are o…
The Vaults on Leake Street is the right venue for a show about squatting in a dead woman's house and life. Beneath Waterloo Station, in a subterranean space - theatre's squatting in it.