REVIEW: Ravers

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all remember what it was like to be a teenager: constant self-awareness, self-importance, self-doubt, self-love, self-centeredness, and a relentless urge for self-exploration.

Reading Time: 2 minutesWe all remember what it was like to be a teenager: constant self-awareness, self-importance, self-doubt, self-love, self-centeredness, and a relentless urge for self-exploration.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA pioneer of ‘in-yer-face theatre’, Sarah Kane was known for awaking at 4.48am in a depressed state to write her plays, typically exploring themes of pain and torture, love and desire. Her final play, 4.48 Psychosis has been described as ‘a 75-minute suicide note’, as it debuted at Royal Court Theatre over a year after she hung herself.

Reading Time: 2 minutesTalking People at the Bush Theatre is a fairly new innovation: a series of improvised evenings amongst a few actors, and their director, Richard Vincent. The genius behind this is Elinah Saleh Franck, the producer.

Reading Time: 5 minutesFollowing a critically acclaimed Fringe season in 2024, Norwich Theatre are delighted to announce the highly anticipated return of Spy Movie: The Play to this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA Most Pressing Issue - A play by Tim Harris in partnership with Matt Williams A dark satirical comedy that follows four prison workers battling a fire with anything but water.

Reading Time: 2 minutesIn its UK premiere, Serena Berman's The Experiment explores the grey areas of harm, intent, and the failure of language to bridge the gap between the two.

Reading Time: 2 minutesA fascinating depiction of resistance, queerness, and Jewishness that promotes a deeply resonant and relevant history. Who is Claude Cahun?, a new play by D.R. Hill and directed by David Furlong, tells the true story of Claude…

Reading Time: 3 minutesAn incredibly talented cast let down by technical mishaps and confused staging Mozart’s The Magic Flute is the story of Prince Tamino, who falls in love with Pamina, daughter of The Queen of the Night. Upon discovering…

Reading Time: 7 minutesJoe Eason (he/him) is the writer/composer of Two Come Home. He is reprising his role as Evan from the critically acclaimed 2024 fringe tour. He trained at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts. Isobel Sheard (any/all) is the…

Reading Time: 3 minutesA witty and high-energy blitz of wrath and disenfranchisement that loses focus in a scattershot flurry of conflicting ideas. The first thing budding actress ‘Lili’ Lum Wai Man (Gawa Leung, also the playwright) tells us as she…