Adrian graduated with a degree in English literature, focusing on American Literature and Vladimir Nabokov in his final year. He is an avid reader of reviews of the arts and is hoping to contribute to Plays to See regularly, and to see more new theatre works.
This is a short, sweet, sensitive one man play depicting a bit of a lost, lonely period for Darryl, a recently unemployed South Wales steel worker.
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This is a lovely, tender play which will stay with me for a long time. It shows us a few years in the lives of a young couple – played by Niamh Watso...
The Richmond Theatre’s wonderful ‘King Lear’ opens with discord: the fragile but steely-eyed Cordelia (Beth Cooke) enters the bare stage alone and fi...
The Duke of Hamilton’s theatre, nestled underneath the Hampstead pub, is a tiny, cellar-like space which makes for a perfect setting for the claustrop...
What’s It All About? is not a musical along the lines of ‘We Will Rock You’ or ‘Mama Mia!’, but is billed rather as ‘Bacharach Reimagined’. This is a...
Titanium (Rojas and Rodriguez) is branded as a unique mix of the street styles of flamenco and hip hop. It features three flamenco dancers, three hip...
From the opening pre-recorded, pre-show announcement, requesting that the audience members ‘turn on’ their mobile phones, Michael Frayn’s ‘Matchbox Th...
Set in South Africa in 1985, Athol Fugard’s ‘My Children! My Africa!’ (1989) is all about divisions and oppositions: black and white, younger and olde...
Ah, Wilderness! is billed as a comedy, one of very few written by O’Neill, and it has tended to be held up as a contrast to his more doom-laden, harro...