Emma Burnell is a freelance journalist writing about politics and theatre. She has her own blog on immersive theatre (Soakedindreams.com). Emma recently completed an MA in Journalism and has worked in communications for think tanks and pressure groups for fifteen years.
Christmas can be a difficult time of the year to be alone. Everything seems designed to highlight your loneliness - from the number of cards you (don'...
I am very very distantly related to Alexander Dumas. My mother's great aunt was his great, great something or other. I raise this not becuase I want t...
This piece sort of snuck up on me. On one level it's a funny, silly take on both the happiness industrial complex and the word of motivational Ted Tal...
The Key is a simple tale of two brothers (Michael Nowak and Mateusz Mirek) who wish to behave badly. Sometimes to each other and sometimes enabling th...
The Crucible was written as a direct rebuke from the playwright Arthur Miller to McCarthyism and the silencing of the American left. As such, its revi...
Ruckus is a hard-hitting journey through the experience of coercive control. It neither sensationalized nor flinches from the impact that living with ...
Would you make a deal with the devil to trade 24 years of fun for an eternity of torment? That is the question at the heart of Marlowe’s play that exp...
It is Larkin’s centenary – he was born 100 years ago into a very different world. He died 37 years ago also into a very different world. But I questio...
Monster covers a really tough and difficult topic and does so with enormous humanity and real depth. It views a tragic and evil act through the lens o...
