REVIEW: Good Sex
Reading Time: 2 minutesCan two actors learn to perform good, consensual sex and play out an intimate relationship, unrehearsed, script unseen?
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REVIEW: Cold Sweat
Reading Time: 2 minutesA frustrating display of AI-age alienation It’s the aftermath of a party. Plastic cups, streamers and empty bottles are litteredacross the stage as a wigged actor opens their mouth to asks if we are just goingto stand…
REVIEW: Bull
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a performance delivered entirely in BSL with creative captions, Deafinitely Theatre create a viscerally visual power-play of cruelty, in this expressive and tense version of Mike
Bartlett’s Bull.
REVIEW: DYKE Systems Ltd.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLondon based duo Fag Packet stormed into the Bristol Old Vic for a whirlwind hour of comedy that gleefully struck down the capitalist patriarchy. This show was as sharp as it was joyful, delivering satire with a big smile.
REVIEW: 1.17am or until the words run out
Reading Time: 2 minutesZoe Hunter-Gordon’s writing expertly weaves together these powerful ingredients of tension, creating a hair-raising 70 minutes of stunning realism that offers a profound meditation on what it feels like to lose people in our life, and the pain of discovering a different side to the ones you love.
REVIEW: Millenium Girls
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn her debut play, Sophie Leonie paints a vivid picture of teenage life in Finsbury Park. There are boys, bullying, friendship and of course, garage music. There is a world that is full of love and excitement, but also danger and competition.
REVIEW: Spent
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith alternating genders in each performance, SPENT asked how we perceive power, control and abuse through the prism of gender.
REVIEW: Is This Thing On?
Reading Time: 2 minutesStood on boxes on opposite sides of the stage and armed with standing microphones, Ellie Campbell and Megan Keaveney immediately cultivated an atmosphere of playful tension.
REVIEW: Autism Mama
Reading Time: 2 minutesCelebrating the birth of her recent grandchild and complaining about her older son being a ‘cunt’, Lacey immediately sets the tone with her honest and frank speech.
REVIEW: The Buddha of Suburbia
Reading Time: 2 minutesTheatre is a journey into a different world and in few other productions is the power of this art form so greatly affirmed than in Emma Rice’s adaptation of the 1990 novel by Hanif Kureishi, The Buddha of Suburbia.