The Exorcist Harry Tennison 26/10/2016 The Exorcist is hailed as being the originator of the mainstream horror genre: whether it be the 1971 novel, or the subsequent 1973 film. In John Piel...
Domestica Harry Tennison 18/10/2016 Sleepwalk Collective's Domestica is a hard hitting and monumentally epic take on a renegotiation with classical art. This classical art, in their own ...
Starting Out Harry Tennison 13/10/2016 Starting Out is a showcase of five new short plays by women, for women. They tell of the struggles faced in the austerity age, and women are sidelined...
946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips Harry Tennison 11/10/2016 946 refers to the number of allied soldiers killed after communication errors left them vulnerable to an unexpected German E-Boat attack. Emma Rice an...
Shawshank Redemption Harry Tennison 05/10/2016 Gary McCann creates an open, but barren Shawshank Penitentiary, allowing male relationships and human fragility to take centre stage in this adaptatio...
The Rover Harry Tennison 02/10/2016 Aphra Behn lived a tumultuous life. She was a poet, translator, novelist, playwright, and, briefly, a spy. She was a feminist who embraced a rock and ...
Dead Sheep Harry Tennison 28/09/2016 As the Conservative Party Conference prepares to arrive at Birmingham this weekend, Jonathan Maitland’s Dead Sheep, which recounts the events of Geoff...
The Two Noble Kinsmen Harry Tennison 26/09/2016 The authorship of The Two Noble Kinsmen is one of Shakespeare experts favourite topics of discussion. The consensus now is that John Fletcher and Will...
Hamlet Harry Tennison 01/06/2016 Unlike the recent Barbican production, Simon Godwin creates a Hamlet fit for the 21st Century. The transformation of Shakespeare’s revenge tragedy to ...
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat Harry Tennison 27/05/2016 I come from the bizarre position of having never seen the 1999 DVD version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s sung through musical. I recall seeing...