Lucy Ashe trained at the Royal Ballet School before moving to Oxford University to study English Literature. She now teaches English and Drama at Harrow School; her role at the school includes directing plays and choreographing for musicals. She enjoys reviewing all theatre with particular interest in dance.
Audiences have come to expect high standards of excellence from a Matthew Bourne New Adventures production: exquisite storytelling, boundless energy, ...
Prepare for a rollercoaster of emotions. Marianne Elliott has directed COCK with impressive precision, shaping razor-sharp comic dialogue so that it b...
Kin surprises the audience at every turn. Comedy shifts into the most extraordinary acrobatics, which then propels us forward into poignant moments of...
I remember studying Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring for my A Level Dance many years ago, and finding it both terrifying and hypnotic, the drama of Strav...
William Tuckett is not satisfied with the version of Elizabeth I that history so often presents to us: a politician, a statesman, a demanding leader o...
The curtain opens on the messy aftermath of a house warming party, the clock ticking at 2.45am. Seemingly an odd opening to a play titled Beginning, t...
From the moment you arrive at The Cockpit, hidden away down the streets of Marylebone, you can be reassured that the evening will provide you with ref...
The Entertainer is in danger of becoming a dated play, no longer able to speak to an audience with the explosive energy it must have produced in 1957 ...
While Doctor Faustus may be one of Christopher Marlowe’s most daring plays, Jamie Lloyd has taken this to a new level with his bold and mischievous ad...
