REVIEW: The Glass Menagerie
Reading Time: 2 minutesFor a few days only, the Royal Lyceum Theatre plays host to a shimmering, delicately wrought production of The Glass Menagerie in Scotland’s capital.
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REVIEW: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Accidental Death of an Anarchist’, originally, is an Italian play by Dario Fo which first opened in 1970.
REVIEW: I’m Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Too
Reading Time: 2 minutes“When I write as me, the words don’t come.” It’s a feeling all too relatable for anyone who’s ever sat down to create — let alone to write a debut novel with agents, publishers, and partners past and present breathing down your neck.
REVIEW: Private Lives
Reading Time: 2 minutesOpening to a full house, ‘Private Lives’, directed by Tanuja Amarasuriya spun a wonderful web of satirical quabbles, ugly fights and scarily accurate encounters that happen within complex relationships.
REVIEW: Der Wald and Lucrezia Double-Bill
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a double-bill, the two short, twentieth century operas Der Wald and Lucrezia are currently being shown at Guildhall School of Music and Drama to showcase the work of their student musicians and technicians.
REVIEW: Little Women
Reading Time: 3 minutesComfortingly faithful to the message of the novel, with a little extra bite. I flatter myself that I am fairly familiar with Louisa May Alcott’s wonderful Little Women – I’ve read it many times, and have seen every film adaptation…
REVIEW: Urooj Ashfaq: How to be a Baddie
Reading Time: 2 minutesUrooj Ashfaq’s How to Be a Baddie was funny, conversational and cosy. Both the set up, Urooj’s confidence and storytelling invited us into the world of being a female Indian comedian, as she strives to counter an unnamed reviewers suggestion that she wasn’t quite as edgy as she may be deemed in India.
REVIEW: The Art of Uncertainty
Reading Time: 2 minutes“An entertaining and thought-provoking talk on how important it is to know what we don’t know.” Described as a “Statistical national treasure”, Sir David Spiegelhalters talk at the Oxford playhouse involved a number of themes from his…
REVIEW: Little Brother
Reading Time: 2 minutes“This visually striking play explores the bleak reality of pyromania, and the complex burden of familial duty in a slow-burn setting” A comically unsettling atmosphere was instantly created in the pre show- retro songs referencing the use…
REVIEW: A Very Clownless Show
Reading Time: 2 minutes“Imagine Saw, if it came with party games and a Billy Ray Cyrus soundtrack.” “Are we in Hell?” asks Mitchell. It’s not an unreasonable question — trapped in a mysterious room, he is blindfolded, bound to stranger…