Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s a cliché to describe every Northern comic as “down-to-Earth”. But Ian Smith’s hilarious bafflement at the trappings of everyday life - pub beer gardens, supermarket shopping, what3words - is nothing if not relatable.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor your child to go missing - and then stay missing - is every parent’s worst nightmare. Nick Payne’s The Unbelievers tackles this knotty issue head-on, capturing a family trying to survive in the shadow of such a gaping loss. Scenes ricochet through a non-linear timeline, and occasionally bleed into one another, capturing moments from the week of Oscar’s disappearance, its one-year anniversary, and then seven years since going missing.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA claustrophobic examination of what it means to grow old in a failing prison system
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn emotional fusion of folk and feeling that blurs the line between concert and confession The tender emotions and story beats punctuating Ohio’s songs feel too raw and honest for a gig, yet its musical craft and time-spanning…
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Lorna Rose Treen dazzles in this exciting fever-dream”
Reading Time: 2 minutesPerformed by two actors playing all 14 characters, Jim Cartwright’s poignant play takes audiences into the world of one working-class pub over the course of one night.
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.