Reading Time: 3 minutesAs someone who attended an inner-city state school where the PREVENT campaign was in operation, often right under our noses, I was keen to see this iteration of Anders Lustgarten’s play, Extremism, which attempts to grapple with the shortfalls and harm caused by the PREVENT campaign.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA relentless dissection of the passive violence of mass media At the time of writing this review, 73,928 people have been killed in Gaza (Al Jazeera, 25/9/26) since Israeli forces began what the UN’s Independent International Commission…
Reading Time: 2 minutes50 years after it’s debut, Ntozake Shange’s seminal play for colored girls who have considered suicide/when the rainbow is enuf, finds a home in the UK at the Yard Theatre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOlivier Award-nominated Blue Mist is a sharp, darkly funny story about truth, trust and ambition. Written by Mohamed-Zain Dada, directed by Milli Bhatia.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A limited but gripping adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s classic novel”
Reading Time: 3 minutes“The team behind RUM handle Mallalieu’s material with immense skill and care” Public consciousness has been raised, in recent years, to the concerns around male mental health and the damage that unfettered patriarchy inflicts on the men…
Reading Time: 3 minutesHailing from Ontario, Canada, Talk is Free Theatre (TIFT) made a stop in London on their world tour of their production of Mike Bartlett’s groundbreaking play Cock.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIn 2014, the UK’s first legalised red light district was trialled in Leeds, a scheme which was referred to as the “managed approach”. This sterile term is where Jules Coyle’s show takes its name from
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’ve been aware of the strange omission of Latinx people from the UK census for some time, brought to my attention by both activists and friends.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Amina Aaliya Beg crafts a hilarious and heartfelt show with an intelligent use of tech” Conceived in 2023 at the Contact theatre in Manchester, since going on to do an Edinburgh fringe run in 2025, Amina Aaliya…