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Review: Hamlet
The story follows Shakespeare’s Hamlet in their own words, with very creative diversions.
Review: Ever Yours
Played by Alex Wanebo, Olivia is beautifully portrayed, her pain feeling tangible throughout.
Review: Or What’s Left of Us
Sh*t Theatre are lost and found through folk in a show that lingers like a loved refrain
Review: A Knock on the Roof by Khawla Ibraheem
Ibraheem is an eloquent story-teller, easily going through narrative gears and the message of the production is strong and urgent.
Review: Breathe
A beautifully designed and performed story that is delightful, meaningful and entertaining.
Review: Precious Cargo
Precious Cargo brings to light a key part of history that must not be forgotten.
Review: Via Dolorosa by David Hare
Through many voices, playwright David Hare has penned an Israel-Palestine story that could have been written today. It is dramatic, powerful, and moving.
Review: Ariana vs Chomsky
This play works best as an introduction to Chomsky’s work and ideas, and will hopefully start up some conversations about who decides what is true and what they might be getting out of it.
Review: Bark Bark
Imaginative and creative show with gravitas, heart and a slightly mysterious edge - totally engrossing!
Review: 1984
Withintheatre has created an excellent piece of dramatic theatre that has gravitas and is provocative.
Review: The Sex Lives of Puppets
A unique take on puppetry that is very entertaining and extremely funny!
Review: Pillock
A searing performance funny and tragic in turns about loneliness and a quest for romantic love
Review: Thor the Walrus
It’s a rare sort of comedy that lulls you with laughs and then slaps awake from your warm duvet of manufactured consent and reusable Sainsbury bags.
Review: The Last Bantam
A moving tribute to the forgotten soldiers of World War I and a masterclass in storytelling
Review: Stuffed
Entertaining and impactful physical clowning about important topic of food poverty and food banks
Review: MacPlebs
A chaotic, hilarious, and utterly daft and delightful comedy retelling of a classic.
Review: Alice Diamond And The Forty Elephants
The scope and ambition of this production was beyond admirable, as boundless energy filled the room.
Review: How to Mate: The TED XXX Talk
Steve Porters is not to be missed, a groundbreaking drag king all around.
Review: Outpatient
A relatable exploration of mortality and finding the humour within the darkest hours of life through karaoke, running and love.
Review: Margolyes & Dickens: The Best Bits
It is pure joy to watch Margolyes read and enact characters from Charles Dickens and tell her stories with humour and wit.
Review: Oran
Theatre as it ought to be – exciting, visceral, challenging and filled with entertainment.
Review: B.L.I.P.S.
Circus and storytelling combine for this funny and sad solo show of living with psychosis
Review: One Man Poe: The Black Cat and The Raven
These classic Poe tales are told with nuance and striking ability by Smith
Review: Because
And that's when we realise, this is the life of someone who hears voices or has intrusive thoughts.
Review: The Martyrs
any zeitgeisty theatre director should jump at the chance to produce this play fully staged.
A musically riveting, dramatically rather episodic production where the dancers and singers make the best of it
Review: Read the F***ing Manual
Thought provoking theatre on the importance of taking care of yourself and others in a hostile world. The potential to be a play for our times.
Review: Orchestra of Sound
Innovation…entertainment…imagination….you won’t believe your eyes and ears!
Review: I Am Not Black
This play must be seen. Look out for it and if if pops up anywhere near you. Make sure you catch it.
Review: My Mother’s Funeral: The Show
A powerful piece of sharp, witty and, at times painful, theatre
Review: PENTHESILEA
A bold and sensual retelling of this dramatic story of Penthesilea, the Queen of the Amazons.
Review: Never Get To Heaven In An Empty Shell
A delightfully droll journey into the depths of ourselves and the London Underground.
Review: Abrasion
If high school health class had been this entertaining, I would have paid far more attention.
Review: Fan/Girl
This is an entertaining and upbeat evocative show that is very well written and performed.
Review: Every Brilliant Thing
The dichotomy of innocence and suicide is fascinating, dealth with much nuance, without falling into cliches or stereotypes.
Review: Forked
A thought-provoking, captivating, and emotionally layered exploration of culture, laced with laughter and skilled caricature.
Review: The Years
This production reminds us it’s often the least theatrical, least tractable works that break boundaries, glow with an authority that changes the order of things.
Review: The Grapes of Wrath
Absorbing and essential, Grapes of Wrath is here as complete as you could wish.
Review: The Promise
Clare Burt’s Wilkinson, racking asthmatically across the play, is indelible, crowning the evening in an arc of sacrifice, Essential theatre-going, an education.
Review: John Fowles adapted Mark Healy The French Lieutenant’s Woman
This is BLT. How they manage it might stupefy a newcomer. A must-see.
Review: After Sex
Deservedly hugely popular. With uber-smart dialogue, Dromgoole ensures that under the brittle wrap, there’s an ache and overriding desire for connection.
Review: Oliver!
There’s not a moment in this two-hours-40 where you’re not at the edge of your seat. The best musical revival this year. Don’t wait till it transfers to the West End.
Review: The Hot Wing King
Hall, following Nottage in particular, emerges as one of the most exciting US dramatists.
Review: ECHO
Ultimately, the most telling line ”We are all immigrants across time” defines what remains an extraordinary experience
