REVIEW: The Spectacular
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor most schoolchildren in the United Kingdom, the history of armed conflict on the island of Ireland was not on their curriculum.
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REVIEW: You Matched With…
Reading Time: 2 minutes"A sharply written and surprisingly unsettling comedy about what happens when we ask AI how to feel."
REVIEW: Ukraine Unbroken
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom the producer-director of the Olivier Award-nominated The Great Game – Afghanistan comes a powerful cycle of short plays about courage, truth and survival in the face of tyranny.
Ukraine Unbroken charts twelve turbulent years of modern Ukrainian history. Performed with live Ukrainian music from Mariia Petrovska.
REVIEW: Monstering the Rocketman
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn exceptional retelling of the cautionary tale of journalistic hubris The story of Elton John’s defamation case against The Sun newspaper is well established among journalists, both aspiring and established. The infamous “sordid rent-boy orgy” stories published…
REVIEW: Ghost Grandma
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnd therein lies the main issue with Ghost Grandma. Marketed as a comedy, it struggles to maintain any consistent comedic impact. Despite the cast’s evident commitment, the script and direction leave many jokes falling flat, and the actors’ often overstated delivery of punchlines makes the tonal shifts that come later in the play all the more jarring and uneven.
REVIEW: It Happened to Me
Reading Time: 2 minutesPeter Lawford lived a pretty remarkable life. Acting as a conduit between the Rat Pack, the Beatles, and the Kennedys, he experienced all the highs of being an integral part of the elite social circles of the 1950s and 60s. Peter Briffa explores this incredible story in his first play at the Old Red Lion Theatre in 14 years, It Happened to Me.
REVIEW: I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Too
Reading Time: 2 minutes“When I write as me, the words don’t come.” It’s a feeling all too relatable for anyone who’s ever sat down to create — let alone to write a debut novel with agents, publishers, and partners past and present breathing down your neck.