Genre: Short Plays 0
Review: Behind the Front Lines; Warriors and Wives
A narrative piece of theatre weaving the story of a wife and a soldier under the conditions of war
Review: Wolf Meat
Profoundly silly and farcically serious show with just the kind of anarchy that offers coke to audience members. Contains brief and ghastly nudity.
Review: Year Without Summer
Fascinating sideling glimpse of Romantic poets and writers through a chaise-long laced with gothic intent.
Review: Something Rotten
Scintillating subversive and original take on Hamlet’s unhappy uncle, weighed down by doubts and too many jokers. Beware of complicity.
Review: Dancing in the Dark
Inspired off-centre situationist drama from acclaimed Wired Theatre about family, grief and sexual identities.
Review: First Love
Conor Lovett lightens his pitch Becket’s exploration of lust, sexual disgust and the intolerable consequences of generation.
Review: The Cunning Mr Lingus
Advice on how to sex up your life and your period appendages sets tongues wagging for a second year in this warm comedy from Alpha males to a wicked Omega-
Review: And the Rope Still Tugging Her Feet
Compelling, downright funny yet tragic true narrative of the Kerry Baby affair of 1984. Caroline Burns Cooke triumphs as writer and actor.
Review: Limelight
Showstopping numbers stud this heartwarming, touching new play with numbers by Liz Tait.
Review: The Beckett Trilogy
Conor Lovett stuns in this cut-down stand-up Beckett-novels-for-beginners-and-enders three-hour whistlestop. A tour de force as well as a tour de farce of Beckett’s genius.
Review: The Bald Prima Donna
Spirited pacey revival of Ionesco’s first play, with one stand-out performance and superbly idiomatic one. A perfect introduction to the playwright.
Review: Boy
A superbly bleached-out vision of a seventeen-year-old’s prospects on a stunning conveyer-belt set. Not a comfortable but necessary seventy minutes.
Review: Persona
Clean focused reading by Bexelei Theatre's young talent of Jon Barton's new play on trolling
Review: Sex, Strokes, Death, Denial
Jack Duffel's new play mixes extreme naturalism with verse in a play creatively probing death and displacement in the family
Review: Thorn
Tremendously energised one-man play about an Australian minister's son on a mission, but which one?
Review: Groomed
Patrick Sandford's groundbreaking play, acted by himself, of his own childhood abuse, acted alongside a sax player...
Review: At least we can laugh about it
A full hour of laughter and fun from an Icelandic performer that tickles, amuses and makes you guffaw liberally.
Review: Daughter
The funeral of a daughter, on the side of Loch Lomond is carefully choreographed by the corpse whilst she is still living.
Review: We Always Knew This Day Was Coming
One man’s journey from fireman to girlfriend to boyfriend as told in 1 minute episodes
Review: The Adventures Of Nellie Bly
Stop the press! Follow life in the fast (Lois) Lane with this interpid girl reporter!
Review: Ego-Less-Ego-Ist
2 short 1-Act plays dealing with women’s liberated sexuality, unwanted pregnancy, jealousy and possibly murder.
Review: Stuart Bowden: She Was Probably Not A Robot
Absolutely entertaining and brilliantly quirky storytelling at its best.
Review: Bite-Size Comedies à la Carte
You are invited to the wedding of Cheryl and Dave where guests can choose four ten-minute plays interspersed with postnuptial comedy, drama and madness.
Review: What Can You Do?
An intimate evening with a prolific and challenging theatre maker introducing us to over twenty years of solo performance work
Review: Brief Encounters: Six ten-minute plays
The awkwardness of everyday encounters dramatised and philosophised
Review: Berkoff in Two Acts
Immerse yourself in language and dialogue that is ornately evocative and prosaic
Review: Other People’s Problems
Advice on achieving goals, health and relationships, and how to improve your life tomorrow!
Review: A House of Cards
A side-splitting farce inspired by the four suits of cards and fuelled by liquor
