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.
Manor is a play that feels comfortable and isn’t. In that, it echoes the central themes of the play – the glamour and certainty that draws so many to ...
This play won multiple awards in 2013. But as the person I was sat next to asked at the end “Was there nothing else on that year?”. This is an incredi...
The Drop is a thrilling, challenging and hugely enjoyable cross between immersive theatre and an escape room. While it is hard to describe without giv...
I have gone back and forth on my star rating for this play more than any other I can remember. If Plays To See allowed me to offer half stars I would ...
The Sugar House is a tale of crime, justice, injustice and poverty as told through one Sydney family. Set in the suburb of Pyrmont we start with a you...
Albatross opens on a frenetic description of a grand design for a whole-body tattoo delivered at exceptional pace by Jodie (Sarel Madziya). She is imm...
Arrival is a noisy, spectacular, and joyous celebration of the past, future, and present of a fascinating area that has been somewhat neglected since ...
It is 1987 and the Soviet Union is not long for this world. Neither – it turns out – were Graham Greene and Kim Philby, the latter dying a year later ...
In the programme for The Game of Love and Chance, the first two pages after the basic info is given over to an interview with the show’s commedia dell...
It’s hard not to love a play named after a Peanuts quote – not least one by the irrepressible Lucy. As the play ends in candlelight, one character’s l...
