Category Review

REVIEW: Yeast Nation

Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s hard to describe Yeast Nation in a few words. It’s set in 3,000,458,000 B.C., when the world’s first salt-eating yeasts are led by an ageing king unwilling to face their decline in saline. It’s a story tackling love and hope and inevitable evolution.

REVIEW: Freud’s Last Session

Reading Time: 3 minutesFreud’s Last Session promises debates on love, sex, and religion, and it certainly delivers - with more besides. Mark St. Germain’s writing, complemented by Peter Darney’s direction, weaves smartly through each new subject so that you only realise you’re somewhere new once you’re already there.

REVIEW: Hungry @ Soho Theatre

Hungry by Chris Bush Paines Plough Soho Theatre Upstairs 12th July 2022 CAST Lori - Eleanor Sutton Bex - Melissa Lowe CREATIVES Writer Chris Bush Director Katie Posner Set and Costume Designer Lydia Denno Lighting Designer Rajiv Pattani Assistant Director Amber Sinclair-Case Sound Designer Kieran Lucas Stage Manager Roni Neale Casting Jacob Sparrow Movement Director (Roundabout 2021) Kloe Dean Lighting Designer (Roundabout 2021) Richard Howell Assistant Director (Roundabout 2021) Kaleya Baxe Dramaturg (Roundabout 2021) Sarah Dickenson Costume Supervisor (Roundabout 2021) Rhiannon Hawthorn Movement Support (Roundabout 2021) Esme Benjamin Lighting Programmer & Associate Lighting Designer (Roundabout 2021) Sam Ohlsson Company Stage Manager (Roundabout 2021) Aime Neeme Technical Stage Manager (Roundabout 2021) Benjamin Smith Technical Stage Manager (Roundabout 2021) Philip Thackray Rehearsal Stage Manager (Roundabout 2021) Ruth Porter ©The Other Richard

Reading Time: 4 minutes‘Hungry’, is advertised as being a “blisteringly funny play about what we eat and who we love, exploring class, queerness, cultural appropriation and the cost of gentrification”, it is fair to say the topics of food and class were investigated at length.