Category ★★★★½

REVIEW: Dear Eliza

Reading Time: 2 minutesFollowing a successful run at the 2023 Greater Manchester Fringe Festival where it was shortlisted for Best Newcomer, Dear Eliza has since grown into an hour-long production and gained Helen Parry as director. Midway through its mini UK tour, I managed to catch Dear Eliza in The Studio Below on Liverpool's Rodney Street (a diamond of a theatre I was annoyed at myself for not knowing existed.)

REVIEW: My Blood

Reading Time: 2 minutesMy Blood, written by Leelou Lapteva, is about the inner drama of a well-off banking family that has survived, even prospered from, the 2008 financial crash. They are grieving the loss of the youngest daughter, and deal with more challenges throughout the 90-minute play. 

REVIEW: Self-Raising

Reading Time: 2 minutesStirring and engrossing, Jenny Sealey’s one-woman show tells the turbulent tale of her life as a Deaf child in a hearing family Self-Raising, Jenny Sealey’s one-woman show, tells the story of Sealey’s experience growing up Deaf in…

REVIEW: The Circle

Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Circle, brought about by Theatre Royal Bath Productions, this short play revolves around the family of Arnold Champion-Cheney, a high-strung politician with a no-nonsense attitude brought about by his traumatic family past; he was abandoned by his dear mother, Lady Kitty, at the mere age of five years old, in the name of “love” for his father’s very best friend Porteus.