Reading Time: 2 minutesA poignant exploration of the young Muslim experience & friendship at its purest form Kash and Mohsen are best friends. Always have been. And like many South Asian teenagers, they can’t swim. They were being taught English…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA tour de force of female rage and vulnerability Chat Shit, Get Hit. The title itself grabs the attention of the audience: a threat, a rhyme, a direct statement. I was certainly enticed. We enter into a…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA one-woman show with a lot of heart, a pin-drop performance and writing that tears you apart and stitches you up anew Getting settled into The Cockpit theatre for their monthly evening of new writing, giving their…
Reading Time: 3 minutesMaking our way into the generously sized pub theatre Upstairs at the Gatehouse in North London, the audience were met with Jazz Age tunes, as the world of this Chekhovian-inspired play, written and directed by Mark Giesser began to be created. I sat admiring the beautifully painted set, which illustrated a pier that would create the backdrop for the meeting place of unlikely lovers Ann Dennis (played by Beth Burrows) and Damien Granville (played by Richard Lynson).
Reading Time: 3 minutesEntering the Ambassador’s Theatre on a sweltering Tuesday night, the excitement for this hotly-anticipated production of Noël Coward’s classic comedy was palpable. Private Lives is a 1930s comedy in three acts. Passion, romance, anger, and lust all intertwine in Coward’s ultimate battle of the sexes as recent divorcees, Amanda and Elyot, bump into one another inadvertently on a hotel balcony after booking two rooms, door-to-door, on their respective honeymoons with their new lovers, Victor and Sybil. Amanda and Elyot are forced to face their true feelings for each other. Realising they have made a mistake leaving each other, they attempt to escape their mismatched partners. They succeed… for a bit.