A couple of years ago Sam resigned to the fact that he was not going to make it as a professional footballer. Now, studying in the final year of his undergraduate degree of English Language and Literature at University College London, he is passionate about a broad range of literature. In particular, he loves the works of Pinter, Stoppard and all of the crazy twentieth century absurdist dramas. Sam also writes and performs poetry around London, and also enjoys making music with his band, Connor’s Yoghurt.
Peckham’s multifaceted cultural space, The Bussey Building, consistently nurtures art and music from the local area. This month it opens its doors to ...
Milly Thomas’ Clickbait is a thought-provoking exploration of female sexual sovereignty in the Internet age. It treads the fine line between sexual ob...
There is a certain boldness in staging Pirandello’s lesser-known drama Naked at the Jack Studio. Whilst riveting at points, resident-playwright Howard...
I am going to spend the first paragraph of this review explaining the political context which drives Tom Holloway’s Forget Me Not. Generally, I am sli...
Diego Sosa’s Faustaff or the mockery of the soul is a modern day re-working of the Faustian myth. Ignore the hybrid Faustus/Falstaff title; the play i...
Valhalla is Paul Murphy’s full-length professional debut. The drama won Theatre 503’s inaugural Playwriting Award this year and it certainly leaves a ...
First staged in 1951, Ionesco’s The Lesson remains a fresh deconstruction of the disparity between language and reality. A leader of the Absurdist mov...
Think BBC Drama The Royle Family meets South-American ‘magical realism’. Sat in a decaying Cuban flat, the Sanchez household receive a package; they h...
It is difficult to describe Christopher Chen’s Caught without giving away too many spoilers. Caught is concerned with the relationship between truth a...
The Arcola Theatre plays host to the VOLTA International Festival until the 19th September. There are four different productions showing over the spac...
