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…
Today we give you our 21st and FINAL episode in the AYT in isolation series… Can you believe it?! Here's Drag Race UK star, Vinegar Strokes. He may have finished 8th on Rupaul's Drag Race …
Review: Alice, A Virtual Theme Park, Creation Theatre4.0StarsWhen was the last time you visited a theme park? Or a mirror cabinet? Or an immersive theatre performance? Alice, A Virtual Theme…
Review: Watching Rosie, Original Theatre 4.0stars In June 2018, I reviewed Louise Coulthards' Cockamamy at The Hope Theatre. It was the good old days, pre-virus, in which we could sit should…
Review: Shebaa's Adventure to Jopplety How, Concrete Youth4.0starsI'm ashamed to say I'm something of a novice when it comes to sensory performance, perhaps because it is still a relatively …
Review: Natalie Barney's Last Salon, Reading Fringe Digital 4.0stars Now who doesn't love a deep chat about a ruddy good book? Have you got a book swap on the go with your friends or are you…
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: The Stove, Electric Dreams Festival, Emma Brand4.0StarsThe Stove was created by Emma Brand to bring people together. Through the intense lockdown of March-June, around once a week a …
Episode 20 of AYT in Isolation is here and we're delighted to be speaking to the Hull-based theatre company, The Roaring Girls. By eck. Formed in 2014, The Roaring Girls use autobiographical…
We're firmly in what would have been Edinburgh season and like many theatre lovers, we miss it terribly. But was it perfect? Hardly. Nikita Karia writes about her love, hate and nostalgia fo…
For episode 19 of AYT in Isolation we're bringing you something just a little bit special as we reimagine a previous episode and completely turn it on its head… The magnificent Chris Sonne…
For this episode of AYT in Isolation, we got very greedy and decided to talk to three people, cos, why not? With about a million credits between them, we give you West End stars, Helen Hobso…
Welcome to episode 17 of AYT in Isolation where we're having another threeway; this time with the joint Artistic Directors of Paines Plough, Katie Posner and Charlotte Bennett. Katie is an e…
Eleanor Dewar misses the feeling of belonging that comes from attending the theatre but she doesn't want things to go back to 'normal'. Praising Flute Theatre for their work, she hopes that …
Review: Myles Away, Chronic Insanity4.0StarsIn September 2019, Nottingham-based theatre company Chronic Insanity set themselves a goal to produce and share 12 shows within 12 months. As a co…
Review: Tiny Dancers, National Youth Theatre4.0StarsMissing each other and their audience, the National Youth Theatre's Playing Up project was able to continue the training and performing of…
Welcome to episode 16 of the AYT in Isolation series and someone we're sure you'll have heard of. We give you Morgan Lloyd Malcolm: playwright, screenwriter, Twitter warrior and all round le…
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…
Like all of us, Holly Webster misses the arts a lot. Here, she writes about how it has conversely (literally) saved her life and made her feel unwelcome as a person who identifies as disable…
In case you missed it live over on our Instagram account on Sunday, here's episode 15 of our AYT in Isolation series and an incredible interview with Chris Sonnex. Chris is a director, forme…
For theatres, these last few months have been critical, but these next few months are essential. Emma Rogerson discusses the present and future pressures on UK theatres and whether, in the f…
Here's episode 14 of our AYT in Isolation series and we're talking to Olivia Munk who is part of the very exciting company, Part of the Main. The bearer of many hats, Olivia has worked as a …
Review: Invisible Music, Platform 43.0StarsPlatform 4's Invisible music is a compelling yet frustrating journey from start to finish. The show is an audible and visual experience that almost…
We're on episode 13 of our Isolation series where we get to chat with some of UK theatre's most influential names and today we sit down with the Hope Theatre's Artistic Director, Kennedy Blo…
Review: Moon River/What a Wonderful World, Little Angel Theatre5.0StarsThe Islington based Little Angel Theatre has a long history in producing innovative puppetry for 0-11-year olds. Openin…