Reviewer's Rating Hamlet Peckham Sam Pengelly 10/02/2016eckham’s multifaceted cultural space, The Bussey Building, consistently nurtures art and music from the local area. This month it opens...
Reviewer's Rating Clickbait Sam Pengelly 25/01/2016illy Thomas’ Clickbait is a thought-provoking exploration of female sexual sovereignty in the Internet age. It treads the fine line...
Reviewer's Rating Naked Sam Pengelly 18/01/2016here is a certain boldness in staging Pirandello’s lesser-known drama Naked at the Jack Studio. Whilst riveting at points, resident-playwright...
Reviewer's Rating Forget Me Not Sam Pengelly 14/12/2015am going to spend the first paragraph of this review explaining the political context which drives Tom Holloway’s Forget Me...
Reviewer's Rating Faustaff or the mockery of the soul Sam Pengelly 24/11/2015iego Sosa’s Faustaff or the mockery of the soul is a modern day re-working of the Faustian myth. Ignore the...
Reviewer's Rating Valhalla Sam Pengelly 07/10/2015alhalla is Paul Murphy’s full-length professional debut. The drama won Theatre 503’s inaugural Playwriting Award this year and it certainly...
Reviewer's Rating The Lesson Sam Pengelly 23/09/2015irst staged in 1951, Ionesco’s The Lesson remains a fresh deconstruction of the disparity between language and reality. A leader...
Reviewer's Rating Ant Street Sam Pengelly 14/09/2015hink BBC Drama The Royle Family meets South-American ‘magical realism’. Sat in a decaying Cuban flat, the Sanchez household receive...
Reviewer's Rating Caught Sam Pengelly 09/09/2015t is difficult to describe Christopher Chen’s Caught without giving away too many spoilers. Caught is concerned with the relationship...
Reviewer's Rating hamlet is dead. no gravity Sam Pengelly 09/09/2015he Arcola Theatre plays host to the VOLTA International Festival until the 19th September. There are four different productions showing...