REVIEW: The School of Night at Hoopla 20th Anniversary Improv Festival
Reading Time: 3 minutesA masterclass in spontaneous theatre
Category Theatre
REVIEW: The Name
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome good performances, but with a confusing and convoluted plotline.
REVIEW: Older
Reading Time: 2 minutesA meditation on growing up with moments that feel kidnapped from real life.
REVIEW: Stand and Deliver: The Lee Jeans Sit-In
Reading Time: 3 minutesA show deserving of the standing ovation!
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Emily Rose Simons and Tanya Truman
Reading Time: 6 minutesHow To Make a Mess: A Totally Unauthorised Love Letter to Nigella Lawson play at Upstairs at the Gatehouse 4th - 28th June. We sat down with Emily Rose Simons and Tanya Truman to discuss their performance.
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Chiara Sparkes
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with Chiara Sparkes, who is playing Maggie Wallace in 'Stand and Deliver: the Lee Jeans Sit-In', telling the remarkable true story of the landmark industrial action when the Greenock Lee Jeans factory workers staged a 7 month long sit-in in 1981, fighting to keep their jobs.
REVIEW: Farm Fatale
Reading Time: 3 minutesA gently absurd ecofable where out-of-work scarecrows run a DIY radio station post-apocalypse.
REVIEW: Garden Party Cabaret
Reading Time: 2 minutesSurreal and deeply chaotic immersive cabaret that lacks any narrative clarity. There’s a fine line between immersive theatre and feeling like you’ve accidentally wandered into someone else’s extremely chaotic afterparty at 2am. Canal Café Theatre’s Garden Party –…
REVIEW: Drunk Girls Cry Here
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe girls' bathroom has had something of a moment in the theatre lately, and it's not hard to see why.
REVIEW: Five
Reading Time: 2 minutesEveryone’s a bit obsessed with true crime, aren’t they? Morris (played by Filippo Brozzo) arranges a prison interview with an unnamed serial killer (played by Zak Rosen).