Dining al Desko Sophie Nevrkla 19/07/2018 As I write this review in Brexit Britain, I have one ear on Prime Minister’s Questions. While May and Corbyn throw jibes at one another and jeers echo...
A Day by the Sea Sophie Nevrkla 24/10/2017 In his 1950s heyday, N.C. Hunter was known as the ‘English Chekov’. His gentle comedic dramas were performed by actors from John Gielgud to Vanessa Re...
Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here Sophie Nevrkla 22/10/2017 In the Edinburgh Fringe Festival Programme, Anyone’s Guess How We Got Here is described as ‘ a road trip. A haunted house. A bedtime story. A photo al...
Mosquitoes Sophie Nevrkla 31/07/2017 2017 has been a rough year, so far; 2016 was no better. Brexit, Trump, wars and climate change are all making the world feel less and less stable. It ...
Bridle Sophie Nevrkla 15/07/2017 To be woman is to be assessed. Everywhere you turn, people expect things of you; things that, sometimes, you are unable to deliver. A long term partne...
This is Private Property Sophie Nevrkla 18/01/2016 The British press have been fixated on London’s housing crisis for the past five years or so. Hardly a day goes by without seeing a headline about soa...
Under the Bed Sophie Nevrkla 13/11/2015 Rare is it to see a play told entirely from the perspective of a child. In Under the Bed, we are transported to the darkly magical world of Alice, who...
The Killing of Sister George Sophie Nevrkla 06/11/2015 When Frank Marcus’s The Killing of Sister George opened in 1965, it was a controversial piece. It was one of the first plays to depict a lesbian relat...
The State vs John Hayes Sophie Nevrkla 31/10/2015 America shares the death penalty with countries such as China, Iran and North Korea. Lucy Roslyn explores this (as well as issues surrounding women’s ...
Martyr Sophie Nevrkla 18/09/2015 In the current political climate, what with ISIS, the Israeli-Palestine conflict and our British lack of a spiritual identity, it is impossible to esc...