Reading Time: 2 minutesSpin-A-Play is an entirely improvised comic performance sculpted from audience suggestions: everything from its genre and title to the nature of its dramatic finale is sourced spontaneously as the plot unfolds.
Reading Time: 2 minutesScience and Art cancel each other out in this confusing production The human genome shares 17-24% of its make-up with a banana, 99% with a chimpanzee, and only 0.1% varies between humans. But these differences matter. Three Billion…
Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving dragged best friend and maid of honour Grace (Lauren Lewis) along in her wake, Every Great Man centres around the duo’s attempts to talk things out as her husband waits at the altar – is this just a case of last-minute nerves, or something more?
Reading Time: 3 minutesJonty O’Callaghan’s one-man sketch show is a wonderfully wry skewering of everyday moments, which has the audience laughing and clapping throughout its 50 minutes.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAfter their grandfather falls ill and their parents decide to stay with him in hospital, half-siblings Josh and Keira are stranded together on a ‘family holiday’. Deciding to make the best of it, they reconnect over the course of a few too many drinks over lunch, and then even more back at the hotel.
Reading Time: 2 minutesComedy and drama fail to mesh in a show that asks an interesting question, but never answers it Contained within a single tram journey, Lost Property is acomic monologue about Alice (Amelia Dunn), who has ‘lost’ her…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA comfortingly old-school British detective story, with a historical twist Upon entering the Charing Cross Theatre, the audience are presented with a printout of Richard III’s family tree. This threatens a finicky plotline, and it is true…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA blisteringly real, laugh-out-loud portrait of functioning alcoholism Steven is (at least initially) a functioning alcoholic, walking a tightrope between crucial meetings with theatre directors and sneaking in a drink between breakfast and brushing his teeth. But…
Reading Time: 2 minutesGhostly encounters leading to self-discovery are well-trodden ground, but they don’t usually take place at Angel tube station.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn its UK premiere, Serena Berman's The Experiment explores the grey areas of harm, intent, and the failure of language to bridge the gap between the two.