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…
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.
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.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWritten by Chris Bowers, a former British diplomat, the play has some great insight on the governmental process of diplomacy.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe sheer lack of restrictions on AI content is a deeply concerning aspect of this emerging technology. It is this lack of regulation that Ben Hatt’s new play Imposed seeks to explore, focusing on the moment two women discover their likeness has been used to create deepfake AI pornography.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn exceptional debut from the Mycelium Theatre Company I hated science at school. For whatever reason, it was the one subject I could never get my head around. Subsequently, I was not sure what to expect going…
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“A well realised aesthetic vision overcrowds the show’s insightful narrative”
Reading Time: 2 minutesPantomimes are a cultural staple in the UK, marking the lead up to Christmas with family inclusive interactive theatre. In Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story, that family-friendly appeal is similarly broad, perhaps though for a different kind of family.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA tower in Greenwich overlooking the Thames sits at the centre of Timelapse Company’s debut musical Precipice.
Reading Time: 2 minutes“The direction is tight, and the acting impressive in Rosie Snell’s onstage adaptation of You” Mark Wilson’s script for You tells a touching story of a mother being reunited with her son, who she was forced to give up…