REVIEW: Woo Woolf
Reading Time: 2 minutesConceived and directed by Xiaonan Wang, Woo Woolf is a loose contemplation on gender, immigration, and the profundity of human connection.
Category Drama
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Hugo Timbrell
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Hugo Timbrell, writer of An Instinct. A gripping new thriller coming to the Old Red Lion Theatre this November, it's set in the early days of a nationwide lockdown, survival hinges on trust, manipulation, and the thin line between truth and fear.
REVIEW: Othello
Reading Time: 2 minutesOthello seems always be a play about intersectionality and entangled gender-racial power-dynamics.
REVIEW: The Glass Menagerie
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days only, the Royal Lyceum Theatre plays host to a shimmering, delicately wrought production of The Glass Menagerie in Scotland’s capital.
REVIEW: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’, originally, is an Italian play by Dario Fo which first opened in 1970.
REVIEW: I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Too
Reading Time: 2 minutes“When I write as me, the words don’t come.” It’s a feeling all too relatable for anyone who’s ever sat down to create — let alone to write a debut novel with agents, publishers, and partners past and present breathing down your neck.
REVIEW: Private Lives
Reading Time: 2 minutesOpening to a full house, ‘Private Lives’, directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya spun a wonderful web of satirical quabbles, ugly fights and scarily accurate encounters that happen within complex relationships.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Emmanuel Pichardo Caballero
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Emmanuel Pichardo Caballero. Emmanuel is the actor/playwright/director of the show, Waiting for Julieta, which is a bold Mexican reimagining of Shakespeare’s tragedy to Voila! Europe Theatre Festival 2025.
REVIEW: So Young
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom its premise, ‘So Young’ (written by Douglas Maxwell) promised to be an emotional show. Revolving around a husband, Davie (Andy Clark), and wife, Liane (Lucianne McEvoy) visiting Milo (Robert Jack), who lost his wife Helen only a short while before.
REVIEW: Where have all our women gone?
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith Elizabeth Huskisson being the first playwright to be commissioned by the police, I was interested to see the kind of work she might create for an institution which has historically—and recently—been criticised as one riddled with systemic misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia and ableism.