Reading Time: 2 minutesPark Theatre's fledgling programme Make Mine A Double is a nifty idea, offering a double-bill of one-act shows and showing off twice the talent. Its first combo of Eliana Ostro's Anything With A Pulse and Deli Segal's Pickle is an attractive, if slightly lopsided, look into modern romance: Hinge fails, splitting the bill and unsatisfactory sex abound.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEveryone loves a pantomime at Christmas, and this festive season the Royal Court Theatre is hosting a well-loved classic, excellently amended for Liverpool and a more mature audience.
Reading Time: 2 minutesEveryone has heard the song ‘(You make me feel like) A Natural Woman’, but you might not know that it was written by Carole King, along with many other famous hits.
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn improvised one-act play by improv duo Hamza Mohsin and Jake Migicovsky, together forming Avocado Presents bring this show to The Curtain's Up pub.
Reading Time: 4 minutesZombiegate is a satirical and empathetic play which attempts to get behind the headlines and hashtags of internet trolls, scrutinizing mob mentality and myths around cancel culture.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 1941, a couple of months before the Attack on Pearl Harbor, and G Company are stationed at the Schofield Barracks in Hawaii. It’s no surprise that James Jones’s original 1951 novel, From Here To Eternity, was heavily censored by his publisher - it’s a story about power, masculinity, gay men in the army, sanctioned bullying, and the effects of war.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn the Mousetraps' 70th anniversary, we're invited to indulge in a classic period piece that made me feel as though I'd been transported back to the early 1950s when the play first debuted.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDirected by Macadie Amoroso, the action of Rob Hayes’ A Butcher of Distinction unfolds in a dark and eerie pub basement.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlaying at The Rose Theatre in Kingston until 12th November, don’t miss this deliciously witty, fast-paced new production of Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which takes on a sizzling modern feel in the hands of director Denzel Westley-Sanderson.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOona Doherty’s Navy Blue explores the insignificance of dance, life and the whole world. From the offset, Navy Blue might seem like a bit of a bleak experience if the point is to comprehend the pointlessness of sitting in a theatre watching a dance show that expresses itself as pointless and irrelevant.