You may assume a play with the title Romeo and Julie, that is billed as a “modern love story inspired by Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet”, would include elements recognisabl…
Many years ago, I employed Fay Ripley to do a voiceover for a TV ad.
In 2017, David Eldridge’s play Beginning dramatised an awkward conversation between two white, financially comfortable, urban-dwelling, adult Gen X-ers, caught in that time of em…
Playwright Ben Weatherill is right to call Jellyfish a love story.
It was only towards the very end of last year that it was announced – or rather whispered, hidden away as it was somewhere in the list of actors always included in the National T…
“Racist comments don’t belong in a play about mothers and shit.
An exquisitely detailed design of a picture box façade-free house.
There’s little to evoke more anxiety and dread than the phrase ‘Traditional Family Christmas’.
UK theatregoers may be playing catch-up when it comes to playwright Annie Baker.
When the voice of Bryony Kimmings - writer and director of this piece and “performance artist by trade” - asks at the start “how could you make a show about illness and death wit…
Calling the run-down Greek shack that acts as the entire setting of this play a ‘Villa’ and then naming it after Thalia (representing comedy as the Greek Goddess of Festivity), A…
Over three hours into Annie Baker’s Pulitzer Prize-winning comment on the everyday existence of the everyman, The Flick, one of the characters says that (his) “life may be depr…