REVIEW: CUL-DE-SAC
Reading Time: 2 minutesSoaring Start, Sinking Finish: CUL-DE-SAC Loses Its Way
Category New writing
REVIEW: Marshmallow Me
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom writer and performer Rosie Pepper, Marshmallow Me offers an insightful story of living with and overcoming an eating disorder.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: El Perry and Daniel Hay Gordon
Reading Time: 2 minutesDance theatre company Thick & Tight present Natural Behaviour, a collection of performed portraits of human and non-human life forms.
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
REVIEW: (UP)BEAT
Reading Time: 2 minutesPulsing with energy and emotional intensity, (Up)beat is a promising work-in-progress that blends live DJing, strong performances, and sharp writing to explore addiction, identity and connection From the moment the audience steps into the black box space of Southwark…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Jack Blume
Reading Time: 4 minutesJack Blume. BEFORE IT HITS is a new showcase of New Musicals, all at various stages of their development, by credible emerging West End writers.
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.
REVIEW: Nosebleeds
Reading Time: 2 minutesA Story Poignantly Bleeds the Personal and Political in a War-Torn Identity
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Viv Gordon
Reading Time: 3 minutesUsing the gestural cutting out of paper dolls as a collective act of healing and resistance, ‘Cutting Out’ is the lyrical, gutsy journey of Viv Gordon’s survival.
REVIEW: It’s You Role
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s Your Role blends fantasy storytelling with live improv, bringing the world of Dungeons & Dragons to the stage as a live recording of the core team’s podcast.