Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten, produced and performed by comedy theatre duo Cassie Symes and Georgina Thomas, aka Thick ‘n’ Fast, General Secretary is a rollicking production that skewers the overwhelmingly incompetent leadership styles seen in our recent political landscape.
Reading Time: 3 minutes“The promised land: a happy place on the internet”. With millions of adoring followers, luxurious brand deals and the ability to travel the world, a career online seems like a no-brainer.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMuch Ado About Nothing is the first production of National Youth Theatre REP Company’s 10th season. Revised by Grime artist, poet and playwright Debris Steveson (Poet in da Corner, Royal Court), audience members are pulled into the world of Nothing Island for this favourite Shakespeare Comedy.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPerformed at the timeless Liverpool Empire theatre this show brings to life the classic 70’s film ‘Bugsy Malone’.
Reading Time: 2 minutesArtist, writer and filmmaker, the formidable Carol Murphy performs this one woman show as part of Leake Street’s VAULT Festival.
Reading Time: 2 minuteselcome Home’s semi-autobiographical action charts Hudson’s relationship with his sexuality in the context of growing up in the Church, amid the devastating homophobic ideology that taught him his queer identity was sinful.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis exciting series of new plays at the Royal Court showcases some of the most talented and innovative voices of emerging Japanese writers
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Elephant Song is essentially a 75’ power-play between a psychiatrist, a nurse and a young patient. The small space of the Park90 auditorium is perfect for a play like this, creating a feeling of detached intimacy that is characteristic of these intimate yet professional relationships.
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrantic Assembly have staged this production before, in 2008 and 2014, but they bring it to the Lyric Hammersmith after a smash-hit national tour at a time when masculinity feels at its most pressured and volatile.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Unfriend by Steven Moffat and directed by Mark Gatiss heralds the award winning team behind Sherlock return to the stage with this charming and hilarious play. Follow the antics of a British family as they struggle to disinvite a very dangerous visitor, The Unfriend is national comedy gold packed with slapstick, social disasters and a toxically polite couple who can't bring themselves to cause a fuss.