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.
Category Drama
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.
REVIEW: Kindling
Reading Time: 2 minutesKindling, written by Sarah Rickman (who also stars) and directed by Emma Gersch, is a warm and frequently charming production that brings together five perimenopausal women on a mandatory camping trip.
REVIEW: Are You There, Nancy Reagan?
Reading Time: 2 minutesAre You There, Nancy Reagan?. A play from the collective Poisoned Well Productions, made up of East 15 graduates and North American theatrical creatives based in London. Written by Emma Freund and directed by Catherine Meiss, the play is a comical analysis of womanhood and female friendship in the 21st century.
REVIEW: Birdwatching
Reading Time: 2 minutesBirdwatching’ is a three-woman show set in the Northumbrian forests, which follows a group of girls in their late teens attempting a camping trip. It explores themes including folklore, neurodivergence and friendship dynamics between young women.