Reading Time: 2 minutesThree aging starlets and a lesser known director prepare for opening night in Peter Rae’s genre-bending new play. Well-written and wonderfully performed, This Is Not a Murder Mystery will have you rolling with laughter.
Reading Time: 3 minutesIN CONVERSATION WITH: Shaboom!
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn adaptation of the novel by Sathnam Sanghera of the same name, Marriage Material explores the complexities of moving to Britain for a better life, only to find that life may not want you in it.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThough the title invites comparisons to Derry Girls, this is no light-hearted sibling. Instead, McCarthy’s debut full-length play delivers a bruising, tightly wound exploration of fractured ideals, friendship, and the long, uneasy legacy of Northern Ireland’s past.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Taming of the Shrew is a widely polarising play, with Shakespeare’s original text often criticised for its overt misogyny.
Reading Time: 2 minutesChop Chop, created, performed and written by Andrea Holland, uses the cooking materials as an accurate representation of who these two characters are: silly stereotypes of both the British and Spanish cultures.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSuperintendent Roy Grace is back in a brand-new Peter James stage adaptation and world premiere of the bestselling Picture You Dead. Fiona Wade who, following 11 years in Emmerdale, took to the stage earlier this year in the hit 2:22 A Ghost Story joins the cast as Freya Kipling. We sat down with her to discuss Picture You Dead.
Reading Time: 2 minutesLast night, I caught Anne-Marie Casey’s adaptation of Little Women at the Oxford Playhouse (running Tuesday 27 – Saturday 31 May), and overall, it was a really enjoyable night at the theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Love to Love’, written by Flo Petrie and directed by Oli Bates, having just finished its run at the Golden Goose Theater, is a deep and vulnerable examination of love and relationships.
Reading Time: 3 minutesOnBook Theatre presents “Red Peppers” by Noel Coward and “Aged in Wood” by Cian Griffin.
Set in a theatre dressing room in 1935, “Red Peppers” is one of Noel Coward’s most celebrated comic one act plays.
The play depicts a second-rate music hall double act, a husband and wife team, who perform two musical numbers, in between which they bicker in their dressing room and quarrel with colleagues.