REVIEW: Imaginary Friends
Reading Time: 2 minutesDaniel Bye’s new solo show, Imaginary Friends, follows a protagonist who, having lost a close family member, retreats into his own mind, embarking on a whirlwind journey with his imaginary companions.
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REVIEW: Director’s Cut
Reading Time: 2 minutesShepard Tone’s ‘Director’s Cut’, which just finished its run at Southwark Playhouse Borough as part of the FORGE Festival, is an hour of genuine laughter and perfectly tailored chaos, mixed with a lesson on an old Hollywood conspiracy.
REVIEW: Monumental
Reading Time: 3 minutesA captivating celebration of feminine history in Edinburgh Do you ever wonder about influential women in Scotland’s history who don’t get the recognition they deserve? Monumental by F-Bomb theatre takes the form of a walking tour, as…
REVIEW: The Last Incel
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After much success at the Edinburgh Fringe, The Pleasance Theatre welcomes the London premiere of The Last Incel. Written and directed by Jamie Sykes, this Irish dark comedy explores the inner sanctum of the involuntary celibate: the internet. Incels have been a topic of interest for quite some years now, their ideology is blamed for inspiring mass shooters and espousing fascist propaganda.
REVIEW: Diagnosis
Reading Time: 3 minutesA shrewd examination of the dehumanization of vulnerable people set in a dystopian London Placed in a dystopian near future London, Diagnosis is premised on authority’s ability, or rather inability, to comprehend information from an unusual source.…
REVIEW: Wee Man
Reading Time: 3 minutesTwo young men play something that looks a lot like football as the crowd sits down in the circle of chairs surrounding the stage. The floor is marked to resemble a school gym, various circles and dotted lines laid out to vaguely resemble the courts of various sports.
REVIEW: Millenium Girls
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn her debut play, Sophie Leonie paints a vivid picture of teenage life in Finsbury Park. There are boys, bullying, friendship and of course, garage music. There is a world that is full of love and excitement, but also danger and competition.
REVIEW: The Ghost and Mrs Muir (Workshop)
Reading Time: 2 minutesI was invited to attend a workshop production of Penny Faith and Carmel Dean’s The Ghost and Mrs Muir, based on the 1945 novel of the same name by Josephine Leslie.
REVIEW: Anna Lapwood
Reading Time: 3 minutesA social media icon, it was only a matter of time before Anna Lapwood’s infectious charm and astonishing talent generated a sold out solo show at the Royal Albert Hall.
REVIEW: The Deep Blue Sea
Reading Time: 2 minutesLindsay Posner’s revival of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea is a production of restraint and delicacy. It doesn’t reach for theatrical fireworks, nor does it attempt to modernise or reframe the 1952 setting.