FEATURE: The Imposter Generation with Imposter Imposter Syndrome
Reading Time: 3 minutesOld Fat F**k will be at Riverside Studios over 25 performances from 5th November – 20th December.
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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…
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Tanya-Loretta Dee
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe sat down with Tanya-Loretta Dee to discuss the upcoming production.
The locket her Mother gave to her clings like a curse, whispering warnings. As her grip on reality unravels, Bex circles the same stories about wolves, witches and wanking – each one darker than the last. Will she ever break the loop? Loop is at Theatre503 from 10 – 29 November.
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…
REVIEW: Hamilton
Reading Time: 2 minutes“You’ll be in the room where it happens for this exhilarating, razor-sharp masterpiece that blends history, hip-hop, and heart into pure theatrical magic.” The Theatre Royal in Glasgow was absolutely buzzing as Hamilton hit the stage this …
REVIEW: Wightwater
Reading Time: 2 minutesonglisted for the Royal Exchange Theatre’s Bruntwood Prize in 2022, Frankie Lipman's debut play Wightwater has landed in the vaults of 53Two Theatre in Manchester.
REVIEW: So Young
Reading Time: 2 minutesFrom its premise, ‘So Young’ (written by Douglas Maxwell) promised to be an emotional show. Revolving around a husband, Davie (Andy Clark), and wife, Liane (Lucianne McEvoy) visiting Milo (Robert Jack), who lost his wife Helen only a short while before.
REVIEW: Where have all our women gone?
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith Elizabeth Huskisson being the first playwright to be commissioned by the police, I was interested to see the kind of work she might create for an institution which has historically—and recently—been criticised as one riddled with systemic misogyny, racism, transphobia, homophobia and ableism.
REVIEW: One Man Poe
Reading Time: 3 minutes‘Nervous!’ declares our narrator upon rising from his pre-show state of mute mental anguish. ’Very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?’