It's so easy to be 'busy' and to ignore our loved ones but what if something happens to them? Samuel Sims talks about the importance of support networks in the world of the creative. I strug…
Review: Lovepuke, Hen & Chickens Theatre4.0StarsValentine's Day has a lot of expectations, and whether you see it as a delightful holiday or a moment to be avoided, Lovepuke takes these …
Review: Band of Gold, Cambridge Arts Theatre 3.0stars It's the early 90's and the monochrome cityscape gradient of the sliding backdrop suggests an industrial revolution setting. Suspicions …
Review: Be More Chill, The Other Palace 3.0stars Technology is taking over our lives and, if we give into it too much, it might just control our every move. The scene opens, our protagonist …
Review: Omelette, VAULT Festival3.0starsThere is a black hole at the centre of this production: both literally in the black circle that lies centrestage, and symbolically in the psychologica…
Review: The Six Wives of Henry VIII, King's Head Theatre 2.0stars "But Henry…….Tu-dor you want to go out with?" Living Spit, a company made up of Howard Coggins and Stu McLoughlin, have …
Review: Extraordinary Wall of Silence, HOME Manchester4.0starsWith such a regular focus on the oral performance in theatre " always interested in the details of the delivery of a line " Ad I…
Review: Flights, Omnibus Theatre 4.0Stars John O'Donovan's new play takes us to rural Ireland where every year Barry, Cusack, and Pa(trick) meet up on the anniversary of their school friend …
Review: The Ballad of Maria Marten, Stephen Joseph Theatre4.0StarsAs Lucy Kirkwood's, The Welkin plays the National Theatre this winter, so Eastern Angles brings its own take on female solid…
Review: Endgame and Rough for Theatre II, The Old Vic 4.0stars "And to think that is organic waste! All that splendour!" Director Richard Jones tones down the nihilism of Beckett's Endgame a…
Review: The Political History of Smack and Crack, Live Theatre 4.0stars The Political History of Smack and Crack is a fervent exploration of addiction through both a personal and political l…
Reviews: Augmented Chinatown 2.0, CAN Festival 3.0stars Nestled between the colourful shopfronts and bars of Soho to its north and the crowds and queues of Theatreland to its south and east,…
Review: Crooks 1926, COLAB Theatre4.0starsCrooks 1926 is a hugely ambitious project where you are dragged headfirst into a London based gang who will guide you through an evening of carefull…
Review: Overheard, Wun's Tea Room2.0StarsIt is not the usual state of affairs that, upon a trip to the theatre, you find yourself tucking into succulent chilli pork dumplings and crispy garl…
Review: Far Away, Donmar Warehouse4.0StarsFar Away is a dystopia of incomprehensible proportions. It holds a mirror up to a host of current political and social issues, and at the same time …
Review: Wuthering Heights, Royal Exchange Theatre4.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesMost literary buffs, or indeed anyone who has studied English to a higher degree than reading The Secret…
Review: Big Bones, VAULT Festival 5.0stars Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, gather round and take your seats. Welcome to the Big Top Circus where many a freak of nature awaits to leave …
Review: SPLINTERED, VAULT Festival5.0stars"Carnival is gay as shit!" grins the MC of Lagahoo's glittering cabaret of Caribbean queerness. SPLINTERED, which comes to the VAULT Festival after …
Review: The First, VAULT Festival4.0starsSpace travel " a concept which either excites or terrifies, or perhaps such a feat encourages a combination of the two. Equally, a play about space t…
Review: Nora: A Doll's House, Young Vic 3.0stars "You've lies in the whites of your eyes, Nora. What have you done?" Playwright Stef Smith re-works Henrik Ibsen's 1879 play A Doll's House in…
Review: Screwdriver, Lyric Hammersmith 4.0stars As posited by Oscar Wilde, "one of the many lessons that one learns in prison is that things are what they are and will be what they will be."…
Review: Kneehigh's Ubu! A Singalong Satire, Leeds Playhouse2.0Overall ScoreReader Rating 0 VotesKneehigh's Ubu! A Singalong Satire is by far Kneehigh's most eclectic, chaotic, and ridiculous…
Review: Bible John, VAULT Festival 5.0stars Unlike the four women around whom Bible John is built, I absolutely can't listen to or watch anything to do with true crime, unless it's so highly…
Review: I Woke Up Feeling Electric, The Hope Theatre 3.0stars "If you don't rock the boat, you won't drown" is the line that perfectly encapsulates artificially intelligent operating system …
Review: Tinted, VAULT Festival3.0starsThe Me Too Movement and #Metoo are as synonymous with this past decade as the terms Climate Emergency, March for Our Lives and Brexit. Initially used by…