REVIEW: Blue Mist
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.
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REVIEW: Noughts and Crosses
Reading Time: 3 minutes“A limited but gripping adaptation of Malorie Blackman’s classic novel”
REVIEW: RUM
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…
REVIEW: Cock
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.
REVIEW: Managed Approach
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
REVIEW: My Uncle is not Pablo Escobar
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.
REVIEW: My Mum Told Me Not to Marry an Atheist
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…
REVIEW: Unlikely: In a building with a broken lift
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis week, the DippyEgg Theatre company makes its debut with their show Unlikely: In a Building with a Broken Lift, starring their two co-founders, Emma Wallace and Lucy Mynard.
REVIEW: After Miss Julie
Reading Time: 3 minutesPatrick Merber’s After Miss Julie reimagines August Strindberg's classic tragedy on the eve of Britain’s 1945 election. With mass welfare reforms on the horizon, including the founding of the NHS, the story looks to interrogate the class structures of its time in light of this.
REVIEW: Safe Haven
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Chris Bowers, a former British diplomat, the play has some great insight on the governmental process of diplomacy.