A celebration of the enduring friendship between the brilliant and tragic composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and Marion Scott, writer and trailblazer of women musicians, written a…
What do you do when Ms Alzheimer’s – a hideous and befanged monster – comes to live with you? Local author and journalist, Susan Elkin, talks about her new book, …
What if your favourite characters didn’t quite like the way they were written? What if they decided enough was enough? When an unnamed author is found dead, his characters are br…
A camp play on the Lizzie Borden case, Lottie Plachett Took a Hatchet is a comedy about axe murder, sexual depravity, and the installation of a toilet.
Ivor B Gurney and Marion M Scott had a very special friendship.
A celebration of the friendship between the First World War poet and composer, Ivor Gurney, and violinist, musicologist and champion of women musicians, Marion Scott.
Romancero Books with the support of the Office for Cultural and Scientific Affairs of the Spanish Embassy in London presents the Festival of Queer Spanish Literature in London…
Celebrating the friendship between composer and war poet, Ivor Gurney, and musician and first woman music critic, Marion Scott; written and performed by Jan Carey.
Brighton’s Storyland Press is a place where the story comes first, regardless of genre or where it sits on the commercial/literary spectrum.
Dave! is entirely incomparable with anything else I’ve seen this year.
Unhinged Creations’ production of Phantom Pain carries heavy themes: grief, mental illness, violence in relationships, and obsession.
20 Stories High Young Actors Theatre Company’s Tales from the MP3 is an original and dynamic production.
Boosters is a one-woman show documenting individuals’ various experiences with the prison system.
Written by Stephen Scheurer–Smith, the imaginatively titled Chrysalis opens with a guitarist strumming a folky melody.
With slick ensemble work and sinisterly twinkling live music, Les Enfants Terribles are back at the Fringe once more with Ernest and the Pale Moon, a chilling account of a man’…
The older-man-meets-younger-girl premise might have been done - and done well - with An Education, but with its delicate narrative, Nottingham New Theatre’s Queen B shows that …
Former Royal Court writer Nick Cassenbaum’s new play, 1 Green Bottle, bets big.
Trapped in a telephone operator job in 1940s Sydney, Grace dreams of an elsewhere.
Backstage in Biscuitland is the charmingly titled tour around the world of Jess Thom who has Tourette’s Syndrome.
Blackout, written by Mark Jeary, is a compilation of several real life accounts of alcoholism which discusses both the addiction and recovery process.
“Death is very inconsiderate.
FYSA Theatre brings us The 56, a show created from the testimonies of three individuals’ experiences of the Bradford City Fire of 1985, and an honest, respectful tribute to the 5…
Crazy Glue, Single Shoe Productions’ wordless whirl back to the 1930s, has an intriguing premise.
An insight into the online lives of six teenagers, Chatroom displays a parent’s worst imagining of how online communication can escalate.
Have you ever wondered what lurks behind the gates of a scrap yard? Some old tyres, a wheelie bin and maybe the odd rat or two, yet what about the people who work there? Bert and H…
The level of energy needed to engage an adult audience needs to be high, but to perform a show for children your energy needs to match that of a four year old or, dare I say, to ch…
A farting princess, flying gnomes, a king, a queen and a giraffe.
Giving out free bottles of bubbles to children on the way in to the theatre is a sure way to get them in the mood for a good time.
What do you want from a show for children? Well, maybe good stories with catchy songs, told by witty and memorable characters.
A new piece of writing by Meghan Crosby explores the thoughts and feeling of soldiers when they are far from home and far from love.
In a new adaptation of Luigi Pirandello’s disturbing masterpiece, Cambridge ADC chop, change and miss the point entirely.
Tania Edwards is wonderfully open and relaxes quickly, gracing the stage pint-in hand.
There are so many possibilities with a Shakespearian text; Does one choose traditional costume or contemporary, to speak the words penned by that famous man or to tell the story in…
An author, two actors and an audience member discuss Tim Crouchs last play, an unnamed and violence-filled two-person production whose effects on the actors and writer are slowly…