REVIEW: Deliver Us From Evil
Reading Time: 2 minutesDeliver Us From Evil trades the familiar horrors of the American witch trials for England's own blood-soaked history, plunging us into the brutal witch hunts of 17th-century Essex.
Category Drama
REVIEW: Age
Reading Time: 2 minutesTwo former best friends run into each other at the airport. One, off on a family holiday, is perpetually tired and “smelling faintly of vomit”; the other is headed on an all-expenses-paid business trip to Amsterdam.
REVIEW: Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure??
Reading Time: 2 minutesFin is a courier by day, an illustrator by ambition and permanently one bad shift away from admitting neither is working out. She's a protagonist engineered to represent an entire generation's inability to hit any of the milestones it was promised in career, relationship or a deposit on a flat. Between the gig economy grind, the on-off boyfriend and the Catholic parents bracing for news they don't want, the premise is the familiarity of overhearing a friendgroup's chat.
REVIEW: Cutlass
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom Will Harley (Radio 4/CBBC/ITV) comes Cutlass. Set during the golden age of pirateering, Captain Springsmile Jack has been caught, tried and is due to hang in the morning. However, his redemption quickly begins to unravel, revealing that this anti-hero may have more depth (and heart) than first thought.
REVIEW: Love’s Labour’s Lost
Reading Time: 3 minutesLove's Labour's Lost is one of Shakespeare's least frequently staged comedies, but it is an undervalued, entertaining piece of work.
REVIEW: Good For Her
Reading Time: 2 minutesDid you read Jennette McCurdy’s acclaimed memoir I’m Glad My Mum Died and think hmm, I wish this was more unhinged? Then boy, do I have a show for you.
REVIEW: Anne Boleyn
Reading Time: 2 minutesHoward Brenton's script, first commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe in 2010, refuses the traditional biography to adapt to a ghost story.
REVIEW: Rika’s Rooms
Reading Time: 2 minutesRika’s Rooms is a one woman play based on the life of the playwright Gail Louw’s own mother, whose extraordinary life is borne of vast historical events that traumatised swathes of humanity.
REVIEW: The Truth
Reading Time: 2 minutesFlorian Zeller's The Truth, currently playing at the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue, is a witty, fast-paced exploration of deception, infidelity and the uncomfortable grey area between honesty and self-preservation.
REVIEW: Sting
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the next hour and a half, playwright Sophie Swithinbank gives us cults, arson, serial murderers, pet rabbits, sexual violence, and anaphylaxis in her valiant effort to explore control.