Reviewer's rating Vera or The Nihilists Jad Adams 27/09/2025This is Oscar Wilde’s only serious play, and his only failure. Vera was written when he was in his 20s...
The Billionaire Inside Your Head Abigail Bryant 26/09/2025Live theatre has a rare power to take what is usually hidden inside us – the tangled, complex, and often...
Romans, a novel Emma Nihill 23/09/2025In her newest play, Romans, a novel, award winning writer Alice Birch has produced a compendious, novelistic exploration of masculinity...
The Code Tim Hochstrasser 21/09/2025The ‘Code’ in question here is the Hays Code, the moral guidelines that bound Hollywood film-making between 1934 and 1968,...
The Land of the Living Tim Hochstrasser 20/09/2025I did not think there were really any moral aspects of World War Two that had not had a detailed...
The Producers Tim Hochstrasser 19/09/2025After great success out at the Menier Chocolate Factory, Patrick Marber’s production of The Producers comes into town to take...
Murmuration Level 2 Tim Hochstrasser 19/09/2025We are all familiar with the mesmerising shape-shiftng of a murmuration of starlings as they wheel across the twlight skies,...
The Poltergeist Olivia Hurton 17/09/2025The Poltergeist by Philip Ridley is a haunting one-man play which marks a departure from the playwright’s usual theatrical fare:...
Bernstein & Copland Third Symphonies Tim Hochstrasser 16/09/2025Third Symphonies are often major and transformative works – think Beethoven’s Eroica or Mahler’s Third, in which an established composer...
Penned Up Richard Voyce 16/09/2025Does writing – and in particular playwriting – have the power to transform lives for the better? That’s certainly the...
