34 stories by "Tamsin Paternoster"
An audience is a curious, volatile thing. The audience watching Can I Start Again Please react in fascinating ways; they laugh when it's seemingly inappropriate, they gasp and grunt to show …
A depersonalised voice with a disturbing robotic lilt booms across the stage. It is harrowing, authoritative and devoid of emotion. It sets your nerves on the very edge as it trills that one…
Dandy; a man who places particular importance upon physical appearance, refined language and leisurely hobbies, pursued with the appearance of nonchalance in a cult of Self. Luke Wright, has…
There is, as always, an extraordinarily tall man sitting in front of me. His neck placed directly between my head and the stage, he turns in the middle of the performance and mouths, his eye…
Words. Our social relationships are almost entirely based on words. Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons, Lemons deconstructs words, and builds them back up in eloquence only to destroy them ag…
Image by Richard Davenport. "The play reflects a lot of concern about the way that our society can be 'dehumanising' and can be have a very narrow, reductive view of how the world should wor…
Animals slowly unfolds like an utterly bizarre hybrid version of Hansel, Gretel and The Handmaid's Tale. Dripping with inverted Orwellian-inspired newspeak and almost perverse slapstick humo…
Ella Carmen Greenhill's short play brilliantly hinges on a type of awkward miscommunication. Both intricate, frustrated and realistic, the perspectives of both Rose and her autistic brother …
Image credit: Mark Douet A voice filters through scenes of grey London. A male's voice: it's young, despairing, but also hopeful. The Dissidents is a new play, commissioned by Shamser Sinha …