REVIEW: Tell Me Straight/Aggy
Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing a successful run at the Park Theatre, a double bill of Paul Bradshaw’s plays Tell Me Straight and Aggy have made their way back to the King’s Head Theatre.
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REVIEW: Extremism
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.
REVIEW: The First Year (of the Gaza Genocide in the Media)
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…
REVIEW: for colored girls who have considered suicide / when the rainbow is enuf
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.
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.
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.