Protest Song leaves you uncomfortable but wanting to know more. And it leaves you feeling like you should do better.
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Spiders by Billie Collins
Spiders isn’t perfect. Spiders isn’t completed – I hope. Instead, it’s peak fringe theatre: rough, vital, compelling, effective.
Read More How To Cope With Embarrassment review
How To Cope With Embarrassment offers us a delicious platter of first-class cringe. The show poignantly opens with the classic statement from 2007’s Miss South Carolina when asked why she thinks a fifth of Americans cannot locate their country on a map, to which she responded: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans […] uhmmm, some people…
Read More Exit the King
In Exit The King, Marber mixes clowning and comedy to create one of the year’s truest tragicomedies.
Read More Other People’s Teeth review
Matt Neubauer reviews Other People’s Teeth’s last show before it hits the Edinburgh Fringe.
Read More A Serious Play about World War II
A Serious Play About World War II isn’t very serious. It isn’t really about World War II. If we’re being honest, it’s barely a play.
Read More Review: Hamilton at the West End
The ‘room’ in question is in fact the beautifully refurbished Victoria Palace Theatre which plays host to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s multi-award winning contemporary masterpiece. Through 46 gloriously varied, heart-wrenching and punchy songs, Miranda ingeniously retells the story of Alexander Hamilton and the founding fathers through the lens of current day America. The historically white founding fathers…
Read More A Christmas Carol at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
This festive season the RSC have presented us with a heart-warming and prescient adaption of Dickens’ classic Christmas tale: A Christmas Carol.
Read More Bad Roads by Natal’ya Vorozhbit
CW: Sexual Assault A lengthy, humorous monologue opens Bad Roads: a Ukrainian journalist talks of the civil war that has ravaged the country for three years and the soldier she fell in love with whilst reporting. She is a conflicted character: “how crass it is to talk about love in war!” she jokes, the guilt…
Read More Hommo by Thom Froy
“This is the narrative: men fuck women.”
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