Reading Time: 2 minutesSuperintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation and world premiere of the bestselling Picture You Dead. Fiona Wade who, following 11 years in Emmerdale, took to the stage earlier this year in the hit 2:22 A Ghost Story joins the cast as Freya Kipling. We sat down with her to discuss Picture You Dead.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night, I caught Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation of Little Women at the Oxford Playhouse (running Tuesday 27 – Saturday 31 May), and overall, it was a really enjoyable night at the theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom writer and performer Rosie Pepper, Marshmallow Me offers an insightful story of living with and overcoming an eating disorder.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFrom Psychonaut Theatre, The W.I.G. of Life: A Conference is a witty and thought-provoking look into human history and our collective responsibility towards nature and ourselves.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDirected intimately in-the-round by Finn den Hertog, The Fifth Step is a provocative, entertaining and subversively funny new play from David Ireland. Starring Jack Bowden and Martin Freeman
Reading Time: 2 minutesShepard Tone’s ‘Director’s Cut’, which just finished its run at Southwark Playhouse Borough as part of the FORGE Festival, is an hour of genuine laughter and perfectly tailored chaos, mixed with a lesson on an old Hollywood conspiracy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Olivia Hannah, playwright of Shit Life Crisis, which tours the North of England from 20th May - 7th June. Directed by Silent Uproar AD Alex Mitchel, Shit Life Crisis follows Grace, who has smashed cancer with the perennial support of her ride-or-die Abbie, but victory has begun to feel like a bad joke.
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn her debut play, Sophie Leonie paints a vivid picture of teenage life in Finsbury Park. There are boys, bullying, friendship and of course, garage music. There is a world that is full of love and excitement, but also danger and competition.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLindsay Posner’s revival of Terence Rattigan’s The Deep Blue Sea is a production of restraint and delicacy. It doesn’t reach for theatrical fireworks, nor does it attempt to modernise or reframe the 1952 setting.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLove You More is a celebration of childhood - in particular, teenage fandom and the relationship between a mother and daughter. Written by, produced by, and starring Sarah O’Dell, based on the love she shared with her mother, the play is filled with goofy comedy and bittersweet nostalgia.