Reading Time: 2 minutes The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary - a playful new adaptation by John Nicholson - jumps right into the climax of the story, introducing us to Emma near the end of the novel’s story as she is already deeply in debt and at her wits’ end.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this immersive one-man show, Òran retells the myth of Orpheus’s descent into the underworld through a modern Scottish lens.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Puritans, famously at the heart of many of Britain’s seventeenth-century witch trials, did not call themselves Puritans; they most commonly called themselves ‘the godly.’ They believed that only a select few would reach heaven, and that ‘the ungodly’ would suffer eternal damnation. The Ungodly, a new historical play by Joanna Carrick, follows a young couple as they are drawn into the paranoia, prejudice, and violence of the East Anglian witch trials. Based on real historical figures like the infamous ‘Witchfinder’ Matthew Hopkins, this chilling tale explores how religious fervour can grow to have devastating consequences.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWith Forgive Me, Father, comedian Ania Magliano brings a fresh, cheeky energy to classic topics like the growing pains of relationships.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn the bustling auditorium of Jacksons Lane theatre in Highgate, amidst the gentle hubbub of the waiting audience, Tom Gaskin stepped casually to the front of the seats and began to very slowly ‘post’ a letter through a mail slot held up by a willing audience member.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis weekend saw composer and violinist Donald Grant premiere a new work in London: Thuit an Oidhche Oirnn (The Night Overtook Us).
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and performed by Dave Robb, The Devil in the Belfry is a one-man adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s darkly whimsical short story from 1839.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Book of Margery Kempe, by writer and director Natalie Lines, takes a fresh look at a mediaeval work by the same name, which some believe to be the first known autobiography in the English language. The real Margery Kempe, according to the book she dictated in the early 1400’s, spent her life experiencing the agony and ecstasy of all-consuming religious visions. In this new student-led dramatisation of Margery’s tale, Lines explores what drives a person to document their life, as Margery seeks to defend herself against accusations of heresy and prove that she does indeed have a personal relationship with Jesus.
Reading Time: 3 minutesCianalas, an original play by writer and actor Niamh O’Donnell, brings audiences on a gripping ride as a village in the Scottish Highlands faces an existential threat: the Highland Clearances.
Reading Time: 2 minutesGeorge Bernard Shaw’s 1893 play Mrs. Warren’s Profession was so incendiary that the cast of the first public performance in 1905 was arrested midway through the show.