Author Emma Burnell

Restaging something that has been much beloved in another format can be a double-edged sword. How do you maintain the sense of the original while givi...

Helen starts with a death. As the action begins we see Helen (Jo Mousley) and Becca (Chloe Wade) lose their husband and father respectively. As Chloe ...

When reviewing theatre there are several different approaches one can take. There is a more traditional assumption that one should go in tabula ras...

Lots about Dixon and Daughters is ever so slightly off. That is both it's strength and it weakness. Take it's length, for example. At 90 minutes it...

Anyone who has ever drunk to blackout - i.e. forgotten what they did the night before - will know that the first question they ask their friends the n...

What’s the worst coincidence you’ve ever experienced? In many ways, it is this that sits at the heart of SAP. While there...

What's so funny about that? The opening question of Jumping the Shark is basically 'can you teach people to be funny?' The set-up is a comedy writing ...

There is a post-apocalyptic bleakness to the set of Graceland that doesn't quite match the gentle pain of the material. Nina is a British-Chinese w...

What's the best pint you ever had? Or if that isn't your particular tipple, the best glass of wine or cup of tea? Not the taste, the moment. This i...