Reading Time: 2 minutesThe acclaimed play Sunday on the Rocks by Theresa Rebeck receives a new display at the Bread and Roses Theatre, taking this much-admired piece that had Rebeck regaled as the ‘voice of a generation’ and repositioning it for the intimate space of a pub theatre.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and performed by Yafei Zheng, Is There Work on Mars explores the illogical racism of immigration systems.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThief by Liam Rudden is celebrating its tenth anniversary with a run at the newly established Stage Door Theatre on Drury Lane.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and starring Keelan Kember as Ed, February Face explores how we negotiate and talk about mental health with a thoughtfully laid out and sentimental narrative. Ed is a young man struggling with anxiety, a panic disorder in particular. Thinking himself to be alone in his battle, he attempts to ignore it, placating his symptoms by boozing at the pub with his friends. He meets Lily (Olivia Mills) with whom he is quickly smitten. As their relationship grows and they learn more about each other, anguish and heartbreak seem bound to follow.
Reading Time: 2 minutes"Robin/Red/Breast," now playing at the Aviva Studio in Manchester, delves deeply into themes of women's autonomy over their bodies and fertility, blending elements of modernity and rural tradition. The show, featuring an exceptional performance by Maxine Peake and groundbreaking sound design, delivers a captivating, albeit occasionally confusing, theatrical experience.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat would you expect from a story about a young woman growing up in a secret nuclear city in western China? This is the question posed not only to filmmaker Francesca (Francesca Marcolina), but also to the audience.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Tailor-Made Man is a play written by Claudio Macor, and was originally shown in London back in 1999. This new production is directed by Robert McWhir and stars Hugo Pilcher, as the “Golden Age of Hollywood” movie star William ‘Billy’ Haines. It tells the true story of his life in Hollywood as a (unknown to the public at large) gay man, and the trials and tribulations of this.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteWritten and performed by Jacob Grunberger, Stop Trying To Look At… (previously my D**k) is an autobiographical story, featuring enough of the kind of jokes you’d expect from a play with this title to keep an audience with this particular comedic taste happily amused.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSet in a psychedelic and grungy Camden, London in 1969 with the iconic trench coats, the story follows the antics of would-be actors Withnail a flimsy and excitable drunk brought to life by Bafta nominated actor Robert Sheehan and his timid but likely to be more successful companion, Marwood (And ‘I’) Played by Adonis Siddique.
Reading Time: 2 minutesI must admit I was not familiar with the character Clinton Baptiste prior to booking in to see Rollerghoster, but a quick search told me actor Alex Lowe's 'Medium Clairvoyant' creation first appeared briefly on Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights, but found a cult following and continued to develop in podcasts, YouTube, and live appearances for the next 20 years.