Reading Time: 2 minutes“An intriguing commentary on revenge and justice” From the outset, the premise of The Trials, written by Dawn King and directed by Joanna Bowman, was fascinating. Twelve children picked for jury duty forced to determine the fates…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhip-smart comedy about weaponised incompetence is an innovative take on a one-woman play. It’s a tale as old as time. New relationship: could this be The One? The honeymoon phase. Moving in together. Buying your own furniture,…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA powerful story of exile Written by Cristy Lefteri, The Beekeeper of Aleppo explores diasporic trauma during the Syrian civil war. It follows Nuri, a beekeeper from Aleppo (Adam Sina), and his wife Afra (Farah Saffari), an artist losing…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA captivating anecdote for exploring self and queer identity through religion and breaking gender norms. Yentl is a compelling ode to those who wish to defy odds whilst maintaining a sense of belief and exploring the boundaries…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAlan Ayckbourn's 1985 darkly comic exploration of mental illness, family life and suburban frustrations still grips audiences forty years on. The show is currently on at the Theatre Royal in Glasgow until the 14th of March.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe paradigm of Wildean comedy, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, By Oscar Wilde, is “a trivial play for serious people”. The play follows characters, richly saturated with eccentricity, and their romantic ramblings within the rigidly ritualistic Victorian upper class.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSugar Daddy at Underbelly Theatre Soho. Join comedian Sam Morrison in a new play about the remarkable true story he never wanted to happen.
Reading Time: 2 minutesan exclusive collection of savage short plays offering a uniquely skewed view of life and relationships in the modern world.
Neil LaBute’s America The Beautiful: Chapter 1 makes its UK debut at the King’s Head Theatre. Comprising of three thirty-minute plays written over the past decade for the LaBute New Theater Festival in the US, the collection offers a searing, albeit varied, look at the darker side of the human condition.
The first two chapters play at King’s Head Theatre from 9–21 March.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat happens when a tech bro builds a predictive AI system to stabilise the next generation, but three dead women from history with serious unfinished business infiltrate it? Ticket Link: FLYOLOGY drops Ada Lovelace, Emmeline Pankhurst and Ethel Smyth…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn atmospheric modern gothic thriller, oozing technical brilliance and spectacular performances. What makes a good ghost story? Magical realism? An eldritch horror? Supernatural revenge? For writer Time Foley, it’s a moody, brooding botanical terror set in a…