REVIEW: The Fifth Step
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
Category Drama
REVIEW: Director’s Cut
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.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Olivia Hannah
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.
REVIEW: Millenium Girls
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.
REVIEW: The Deep Blue Sea
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.
REVIEW: Love You More
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.
REVIEW: The Comedy About Spies
Reading Time: 2 minutesPun-filled and fun-filled: there are few better ways to spend your evening with this terrifically executed spy romp
REVIEW: Nosebleeds
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Story Poignantly Bleeds the Personal and Political in a War-Torn Identity
REVIEW: Kim’s Convenience
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou leave the theatre feeling like you’ve just spent an hour inside someone’s real life, not just a sitcom set. That’s no small feat.
REVIEW: The Girl on the Train
Reading Time: 2 minutesAdapted from Paula Hawkins’ novel, The Girl on a Train comes to the Liverpool Everyman stage. Starring Louisa Lytton.