REVIEW: Some Woman
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome Woman plays in the Dorfman Theatre at the National Theatre in London, from Wednesday 7 October to Saturday 21 November 2026.
Category New writing
REVIEW: Room 13
Reading Time: 2 minutesRoom 13 is the brand-new immersive theatrical horror experience on at Battersea Arts Centre just in time for the Halloween period.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jessica Kinsey and Benjamin Askew
Reading Time: 3 minutesLADY M is a one-woman journey into the mind of Shakespeare’s “fiend-like queen”.
REVIEW: 10 LOVES
Reading Time: 2 minutesProduced by Magnifying Glass Theatre as its first show, 10 Loves certainly has an original premise and deserves its place in Lambeth Fringe.
REVIEW: The Hungry Ghost
Reading Time: 2 minutesinsatiable desire The Hungry Ghost can be read as a story of supernatural possession, of disordered eating, or of an insatiable hunger for love. In Mei Leng Yew’s play, these readings continually overlap where the desire for food…
REVIEW: The Final Exam: Gao Kao
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Final Exam: Gao Kao turns the Gaokao into a literal battlefield, using physical theatre, projection and stage combat to explore academic pressure, institutional expectation and the idea that exam results can become inseparable from identity.
REVIEW: The Children
Reading Time: 2 minutesa play asking urgent questions about generational responsibility and the right to not feel old Originally written and performed at the Royal Court in 2016, The Children may still remain one of the best, if not the best, post-apocalypse…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Beryl Flynn
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down for a quick chat with the emerging writer and director Beryl Flynn whose play, The Happy Minds Clinic, comes to Greenwich Theatre for three performances on 16, 17 and 18 September. There is a…
REVIEW: The Waiting
Reading Time: 4 minutesNina-Lou Bricard’s one-woman show The Waiting played at Riverside Studios this August.
REVIEW: Skinned
Reading Time: 2 minutesSilence and contained chaos—scraps of paper tossed haphazardly into cardboard boxes surrounding a few stools and a wooden table—await the audience of this Camden Fringe premiere of Skinned.