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Review: Take Care, Network Theatre Vault Festival4.0Stars'Take care:' a quintessentially British phrase, the kind of thing your grandma might say to you or the perfect way, albeit slightly p…
We may all be in a Coronavirus-lockdown, but that doesn't mean the fun has to stop. In a new AYT video series, we are interviewing influential people in the theatre industry and finding out …
The winner of Vault Festival's After Dark Award, Séayoncé talks to long-time pal, Emma Bentley about the stress of being cooped up during the Coronavirus pandemic and the uncertainty of hi…
Now, more than ever it's time to reflect and think objectively about the planet and the effect we have not only on each other, but other living beings. Artistic Director of Wild Geese Theatr…
If you're like us and the thought of not being able to do, see or talk about theatre for the foreseeable future is simply unacceptable, then fear not! While the impact this crisis might have…
Like many theatre productions, the future of Mel Pennant's Seeds, due to begin a run at Soho Theatre this week, looks uncertain. Before the cancellation and following its UK tour, we sat dow…
We're trying not to make everything about this horrible virus so in a bid to break it up a bit, Emma Bentley gives some very helpful advice to anyone who has or is thinking about doing an MA…
Review: Two, Hull Truck Theatre 4.0Stars Jim Cartwright's Two has an illustrious performance history chocked full of exemplary acting performances. This new production, a collaboration betwe…
Review: Once Upon a Mattress, Upstairs at the Gatehouse 3.0stars Fringe venues, such as Upstairs at the Gatehouse, are so wonderful in their intimacy and ruggedness, able to focus more on 'p…
Review: Fireworks, Vault Festival4.0stars Heading up the stairs and along the walkway towards the river Thames and Charing Cross Station, you pass the south side of the Royal Festival Hal…
Review: The Seven Streams of the River Ota, National Theatre5.0starsTheatre today is beginning to err more toward bitesize plays, accepting people's shortening attention spans rather than ch…
Review: One Jewish Boy, Trafalgar Studios4.0starsOne Jewish Boy follows Alex and Jesse whose marriage is struggling as a result of Jesse's trauma from an anti-Semitic attack a few years prev…
Review: Shoe Lady, Royal Court 3.0Stars Viv loses her shoe on the commute to work one morning. And she tells us this. She reminds us a lot actually. She's your typical middle-class working m…
Review: The Croft, Cambridge Arts Theatre4.0StarsThe Croft is a dark and haunting tale of love and loss, framed beautifully against the rugged backdrop of the Scottish highlands. The story f…
Review: The Special Relationship, Soho Theatre 3.0Stars The Special Relationship is a documentary theatre piece that works both as a fun night out and as a punch in your stomach. The impact …
Review: Fatty Fat Fat, The Other Room4.0StarsDespite what the tinsel hangings and silver balloons may have you believe, this is not a celebration. It's far too honest. Far more nuanced. You …
Theatres are closing all over the world because of the Coronavirus. Is this really the end of days or could the internet prove to not only be our saviour but the start of a necessary revolut…
Review: The Time Machine, The London Library1.0starFirst published in 1895, H.G. Wells' serialised novel, The Time Machine, not only popularised the concept of time travel, but in fact coine…
Review: This Poo Shall Pass, Vault Festival3.0starsIn This Poo Shall Pass Molly Martian shares her dilemmas as a trans woman. With a microphone on one side of the stage and a real toil…
Review: Afterplay, The Coronet Theatre5.0StarsBrian Friel's Afterplay feels very much like a near cousin of a Chekhov play, tied closely to the settings and themes that we are so familiar wi…
Review: Daughter, Battersea Arts Centre4.0StarsFathers and their daughters " this relationship inspires a comforting sentimentality for some and a dull reminiscent ache for others, or someth…
Review: Sugar Coat, VAULT Festival 3.0stars What do you get when you take a musical and swap out jazz hands for head-banging and solo showstoppers for a band of punk rock performers? You get…
Review: The Importance of Being... Earnest?, Omnibus Theatre 4.0Stars When asked why he thought that the theatre was "the greatest of all art forms", Oscar Wilde responded that it was becaus…
Review: Love, Love, Love, Lyric Hammersmith 3.0stars Love, Love, Love sees Rachel O'Riordan return to the helm to direct her second production since joining as artistic director of the Lyric…
Review: Love in a Nutshell, The Cockpit Theatre4.0starsIn Xameleon's adaptation of an array of Anton Chekov's short stories, you'll be whisked into two hours of unequivocally sterling storyt…
