Lucy Ashe trained at the Royal Ballet School before moving to Oxford University to study English Literature. She is an author and her first novel, a historical fiction thriller entitled 'Clara & Olivia', was published in 2023. She also teaches English and Drama at Harrow School. She enjoys reviewing all theatre with particular interest in dance.
Christmas is full of festive traditions and going to see The Nutcracker is one of the highlights. Wayne Eagling’s marvellous production for the Englis...
Walking through the corridor leading into the Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, you quickly see that you are not in a theatre at all, but in a school. Colourf...
If you are looking for a comedy masterpiece, this is the show for you. It was hard work persuading comedy loving friends that a Chaucerian themed show...
If a woman asked you for a few of your pubic hairs, would you oblige? What if this was in a theatre with a packed auditorium and a bottle of Jack Dani...
Oscar Wilde, Lord Alfred Douglas, the love that dare not speak its name... what better subjects for a new play? However, this superb masterpiece goes ...
Lady Windermere’s Fan is an Oscar Wilde gem that continues to delight audiences with its charm, wit and playful satire on Victorian hypocrisy. And the...
PUSH is spell-binding: it is unthinkable to blink in case you miss just one moment of this extraordinary art work. Russell Maliphant’s unique choreogr...
Don’t stammer and yammer at me again, man. I’m losing all patience with you people, cries the Inspector during the long and miserably slow second act ...
The Flintlock Theatre’s first production as a company, The Government Inspector, is a feast of entertainment, taking Nikolai Gogol’s controversial pla...
Sole Sanctuary truly is an offering of thanks for the art of tap dance. Savion Glover, the ‘saviour’ of tap, creates an altar to the dance form, proud...
