Review: This Is Not Culturally Significant, Gilded Balloon
Hinging on a brilliant central performance by Adam Scott-Rowley, This is Not Culturally Significant is a dizzying one-man show jump-cutting from character to character. Over the course of an hour,...
View ArticleReview: How To Win Against Humanity, Assembly George Square
How to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of “hype”. Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square – this year, it’s playing to...
View ArticleReview: Out of Love, Summerhall
The title of Elinor Cook’s latest play, with its double-meaning akin to Enduring Love, signifies a play that cruxes on duality. Best friends Lorna and Grace are two sides of a coin, doing things out of...
View ArticleReview: The Kindness of Stranglers, Just the Tonic at The Tron
You may have heard of real-life sisters Flo and Joan (real names Nicola and Rosie Dempsey) from their song about 2016 that did the internet rounds last year. Or you may not – they were at the Fringe...
View ArticleReview: Elsa, Assembly Hall
Part-gig, part-theatre, part-satire, Elsa, by Roundhouse Resident Artist Isobel Rogers, has a little bit of everything on offer. Roger tells us the story of Elsa, an artist working in a café, and the...
View ArticleReview: Education, Education, Education, Pleasance Dome
Where to begin with Education, Education, Education, Wardrobe Ensemble’s love letter to school in the 90s? It’s brilliant – that’s a good place to start. Focusing in on a chaotic muck-up day at a...
View ArticleReview: How to Win Against History, Assembly George Square
How to Win Against History is one of those plays at the Fringe that has the double-edged curse of “hype”. Last year, it played in the tiny Box at Assembly George Square – this year, it’s playing to...
View ArticleReview: Suspicious Minds, Pleasance Dome
After an act of unfaithfulness, a seemingly ordinary British couple book a holiday together to try and salvage their relationship. We watch as the couple, Mark and Fran, attempt (a little lopsidedly,...
View ArticleReview: Prom Kween, Underbelly Cowgate
Before Prom Kween even starts, I have glitter on my face and am singing along to the Spice Girls, the lyrics projected on a screen over images of famous RuPaul’s Drag Race lipsyncs. This kickstarts an...
View ArticleReview: The Nature of Forgetting, Pleasance Courtyard
It’s Tom’s 55th birthday, and his daughter, Sophie, prepares him for a visit by two of his friends. But Tom has an unspecified degenerative disease that affects his memory and understanding of the...
View ArticleReview: Styx, RIFT
Ah, “immersive”. That age-old buzzword. A word I’m usually cynical about – after all, it doesn’t really mean all that much. Surely all theatre is, or should be, immersive. Or so I thought, until RIFT’s...
View ArticleReview: A Third, Finborough Theatre
I don’t know about you, but I get a real buzz out of walking into a theatre I’ve already visited and having difficulty recognising the space. It’s something about being duped, or thrown into a new...
View ArticleReview: Fugee, Southwark Playhouse
Abi Morgan’s Fugee is the perfect play for the Southwark Playhouse Young Company. The characters constantly tell us that they don’t exist, and that they’re being played by actors who are telling their...
View ArticleFeature: “It’s not over yet” – The fight to save IdeasTap
At the beginning of the month, the announcement came that IdeasTap is to close on the 2 June. Following the news, it didn’t take long for many of the site’s members to speak up in support of the...
View ArticleFeature: Casual Violence returns with The Great Fire of Nostril
February is a big month for comedy group Casual Violence. Their new show, The Great Fire of Nostril, runs at the Soho Theatre next week, immediately followed by the recording of a new “podcast sitcom”...
View ArticleFeature: LIFT off for David Binder
Since its establishment in 1981, London International Festival of Theatre – or LIFT – have been bringing bold and ambitious theatre to the capital with its bi-annual festival. This year’s festival...
View ArticleFeature: Chris Urch –“I try to write for people who don’t go to the theatre”
It’s almost two months since Chris Urch’s play Land of Our Fathers, finished its West End run at Trafalgar studios, but the playwright is showing no signs of stopping. Having won one of the 2013...
View ArticleFeature: A TakeOver at York Theatre Royal
When I enter York Theatre Royal for the press launch of TakeOver Festival, I’m hit with how buzzing and alive the foyer is. Music fills the room, courtesy of a ukulele band (the brilliantly named Grand...
View ArticleReview: The Wolf From The Door, Royal Court Theatre
There’s been some debate recently about realism, reality and realness, prompted by the Almeida’s current production of Little Revolution, which constantly springs to mind while watching The Wolf From...
View ArticleFeature: Miran Hadzic at the Old Red Lion
“I got an email from someone saying, ‘I’d like to reserve a ticket for The Love and Devotion of Ridley Scott,” playwright Miran Hadzic laughs. “And I was like – it’s not a biopic of Ridley Scott! I...
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