REVIEW: Comment is Free
Reading Time: 2 minutesJames Fritz’s play, cOmment is Free, began as a staged reading in 2015 and became an award-winning BBC Radio 4 drama in 2016, and now returns in ETAL’s six-performer adaptation.
Category Spoken Word
REVIEW: Measure for Measure
Reading Time: 3 minutesMeasure for Measure at Riverside Studios is Shakespeare’s great problem play; in the city-state of Vienna ruled by Duke Vincentio, the Duke chooses to leave his puritanical deputy Angelo in his authority during his absence.
REVIEW: Two Names, That Meet and Part
Reading Time: 3 minutesNow in its fifth year, the PALART Festival brings with it a vibrant offering of Palestinian stories, this time at the Pleasance Theatre. In addition to supporting - through opportunities for development of new work - Palestinian artists in the UK, the PALART Collective seeks to push back against mainstream media’s growing exclusion and erasure of Palestinian narratives.
REVIEW: Murder Before Evensong
Reading Time: 2 minutesPaul Hart returns to the Watermill Theatre with Murder Before Evensong, a world premiere stage adaptation of Reverend Richard Coles’ bestselling mystery novel.
REVIEW: JERKER
Reading Time: 2 minutesFirst written 40 years ago by pioneering gay playwright Robert Chesley, JERKER serves as an intimate historical snapshot of 1980s San Francisco.
REVIEW: The Standard of Living
Reading Time: 3 minutesA brand new world-premiere play, The Standard of Living, from the Olivier Award-winning playwright, James Graham (Punch, Dear England, Labour of Love) explodes into the West End for a strictly limited 12-week run.
REVIEW: Juliet & Romeo
Reading Time: 3 minutesDirected by award-winning director/choreographer Ben Duke, Juliet & Romeo at the Bristol Old Vic takes on our cultural obsession with youth and our inevitable issues with longevity.
REVIEW: The Waiting
Reading Time: 4 minutesNina-Lou Bricard’s one-woman show The Waiting played at Riverside Studios this August.
REVIEW: Don Quixote (Is a Very Big Book) @ King Dome at Pleasance Dome
Reading Time: 2 minutesDik Downey's mid-life crisis crashes headlong into Don Quixote's crazed delusions. With a rogue's gallery of puppets and desperate clowning, Quixote embarks on surreal, comic misadventures with sidekick Sancho Panza and decrepit horse, Rocinante. Dik fights to make this huge novel joyous to a contemporary audience.
REVIEW: Situationsh*t
Reading Time: 2 minutesSituationsh*t is a one woman show which chronicles Emily Drewett’s foray into modern dating after the end of a long term relationship. Camden Fringe.