From the moment Smita Russell steps into the space, it’s clear we’re in the hands of an exceptional storyteller and presence. For an hour, she holds the room with such intensity that I’m not sure anyone around me drew breath. Set inside the intimate Roxyboxy container at Assembly Roxy, the performance is accompanied (almost as…
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FLUSH by April Hope Miller. ★★★★★
Three toilet cubicles sit on stage. As we settle in, we begin to notice the details – each cubicle wall is covered in scribbled messages, ‘Protect the dolls,’ ‘BRAT,’ phone numbers and dates of wild nights out. We’re in a club bathroom in the heart of Shoreditch and more specifically, a women’s bathroom. And as the night…
OPENING LINES… Interview with Sam Stuart Fraser & Sean Fullwood – writers of F.U.D.S.
Welcome back to OPENING LINES, the interview series that puts playwrights centre stage by diving into the world of new writing and original work. Each interview explores the creative process, the challenges and triumphs of developing new ideas and work for the stage, why new voices and stories are essential to the future of theatre…
BRAINSLUTS by Dan Bishop. ★★★★
Ever wondered what it’s like to take part in a clinical research test for a new drug? BRAINSLUTS takes that curiosity and runs with it, placing us right inside a five week trial and as week one begins, four participants are meeting for the first time. Mitch (Dan Bishop), Duggan (Rob Preston), Bathsheba (Kathy Maniura) and Yaz…
HAPPY ENDING STREET by Jenna Stones. ★★★
We open with a song performed by Pearl (Lucia Ireland, who btw has an exceptional voice), setting the tone and introducing us to the world of Happy Ending Street – a brothel in 1890s Edinburgh where we find the women within it on edge. A killer is on the loose, one they later name the ‘hen catcher’…
PALS by Mirren Wilson. ★★★
In PALS (Perfectly Average Lassies of Scotland – their words, not mine!) we meet four pals – Sadie (Olivia McIntosh), Claire (Olivia Caw), Taylor (Amy Glass) and Flo (Shelley Middler). Each of them has their own stuff going on – Sadie’s struggling with her mum’s declining health and wants to relive their old hiking trips, Claire’s processing a…
A LETTER TO LYNDON B JOHNSON OR GOD: WHOEVER READS THIS FIRST by Xhloe Rice and Natasha Roland. ★★★★
Having seen WHAT IF THEY ATE THE BABY? earlier this year at Soho Theatre, I already knew I was in for a treat with another Xhloe and Natasha production. The clowning duo and three-time consecutive Fringe First Award-winners are experts at storytelling – not just through dialogue, but through their remarkable physicality. In A LETTER TO LYNDON B…
STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF GIANTS by Lucie Barât. ★★★★★
Lucie Barât – ‘the sister’, ‘the accessory’, ‘a walking AAA pass’ – as she jokingly calls herself. Yes, she’s the sister of The Libertines rockstar Carl Barât, but in STANDING IN THE SHADOWS OF GIANTS we finally meet her – raw, unfiltered and ready to tell a story that she explains has stayed in the…
OPENING LINES… Interview with Amenie Groves – writer of PENELOPE QUADRANGLE AND THE MEANING OF FRIENDSHIP.
I’m back with OPENING LINES, the interview series that puts playwrights centre stage by diving into the world of new writing and original work. Each interview explores the creative process, the challenges and triumphs of developing new ideas and work for the stage, why new voices and stories are essential to the future of theatre…
OPENING LINES… Interview with Jenna Stones – writer of HAPPY ENDING STREET.
Welcome back to OPENING LINES, the interview series that puts playwrights centre stage by diving into the world of new writing and original work. Each interview explores the creative process, the challenges and triumphs of developing new ideas and work for the stage, why new voices and stories are essential to the future of theatre…
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