Reading Time: 2 minutesWith competition hot on the ice for Heated Rivalry parodies this year, following the Canadian TV show’s meteoric rise to fame, it is little wonder that hordes of fans flocked to witness a comedic rendition of their new favourite tear-jerking drama. Heated Rivalry: The Musical Parody did not disappoint.
Reading Time: 2 minutesDespite multiple portraits hanging on London’s hallowed gallery walls, famous actress, celebrity and
author Mary Robinson has yet to have her contemporary cultural zeitgeist. Enter stage left, Perdita.
Written by Sophie Todd, who also plays the titular protagonist, the first half of the play deals with
Robinson’s youth as a teenager wedded to drunken gambler Thomas Robinson (played by Kevin Martin Murphy). We see her follow him all the way to debtor’s prison with their newborn child Maria where her writing is so popular it neatly pays off their debt and she returns to the stage to be mentored by bringing David Garrick out of retirement. Here she flourishes, although we never really see her on stage.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDespite multiple portraits hanging on London’s hallowed gallery walls, famous actress, celebrity and
author Mary Robinson has yet to have her contemporary cultural zeitgeist. Enter stage left, Perdita.
Written by Sophie Todd, who also plays the titular protagonist, the first half of the play deals with
Robinson’s youth as a teenager wedded to drunken gambler Thomas Robinson (played by Kevin Martin Murphy). We see her follow him all the way to debtor’s prison with their newborn child Maria where her writing is so popular it neatly pays off their debt and she returns to the stage to be mentored by bringing David Garrick out of retirement. Here she flourishes, although we never really see her on stage.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnnabelle and Ben's relationship is not what she has hoped it would be, but maybe people change as they grow comfortable. She also hates her job and her life feels like a failure. Trying to regain control of the situation, she throws a sophisticated dinner party, inviting uni friends and their partners. As the night unravels, the past inevitably comes up and the truth comes out.
Reading Time: 2 minutes Immersive theatre company Darkfield have created three outstanding experience performances which interrogate these questions head on.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis debut show from Milk and Mallet is a welcome addition to the Fringe this year.
Reading Time: 2 minutesCombining anecdotal recount with the suicide notes of celebrities, Right before I go. weaves a narrative of grief and remembrance, made immediately bigger than itself by invoking the heartbreaking statistics of the hundreds of lives that will be lost to suicide during the duration of this show alone.
Reading Time: 2 minutesRhino Conservation Erotic Novel is about a Rhino Conservation Erotic Novel. Rhinos and eroticism, you may ask - what’s the overlap?
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe initial element which struck me about Mari Moriarty’s live radio hour Fempaths was the care taken to ensure this performance is as accessible as possible.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe order has spoken: you must go watch The Haunting.