My latest gossipy chinwag is with Francesca Forristal, comedy and songwriter, actor and drag artist extraordinaire. Here Francesca talks about getting into the arts, the importance of broad thinking when it comes to drag artists and why it’s so important to laugh at the difficult subjects in order to truly engage with and understand them.... Continue Reading →
Spies Like Us are bringing not one but two pieces to the 2020 Vault Festival. One - Our Man in Havana - is a fully fledged production which has already gained significant recognition and the other - Speed Dial - is a work in progress. With both arriving on the Vault scene between 3-7th March... Continue Reading →
Esohe Uwadiae brings a daring, exploratory new show to this year’s Vault Festival with her debut play She Is A Place Called Home (playing 3rd - 8th March - tickets here). Delving into the universal ground of family, relationships, love and perseverance, her play also seeks to enlighten audiences when it comes to cultures and... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 13th August 2019 at the Tristan Bates Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Ross Dinwiddy’s The Geminus is a cleanly selective new work based on Joseph Conrad’s story of a ship captain who harbours a fugitive. In Dinwiddy’s story, the captain and an enigmatic sailor clambouring aboard his ship in the dead of night form a connection born... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 13th August 2019 at the Tristan Bates Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Three girls meet to celebrate a birthday. What begins as a recognisable silent feud of one friend feeling replaced by another quickly begins to prove itself a much darker and more complex story. There’s a history here to unpack and a future to consider carefully.... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 13th August 2019 at the Tristan Bates Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Zöe Guzy-Sprague’s The Net takes women from behind the scenes of war and conflict and places them centre stage. It explores a breadth of ideas within the realms of conflict, relationships and the idea of home in relation to territory and it’s a narrative which... Continue Reading →
Sunday 11th August 2019 at the Etcetera Theatre, Camden. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ At every performance of Improdyssey, the audience dictate (to an extent) the action they see. Restrictions apply as the company specifies that the tale must be set in the medieval period with the healthy option of fantastical content - from there, the show sets sail... Continue Reading →
Sunday 11th August 2019 at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Abby Coppard’s White Nurse looks at the familiar territory of toxic relationships and considers the implications of an individual trying to extricate herself from one dependent relationship by experimenting with another. Joe is a classic controlling manipulator. Layla is the classic manipulated woman trapped... Continue Reading →
Sunday 11th August 2019 at the Hen and Chickens Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Perdita Stott’s Ugly looks at the hugely relatable niggles and woes of life as a woman in the modern world of hyper-scrutiny and impossible beauty standards. It’s very strong subject matter but in bursting at the seams with lamentations of self-consciousness and subsequent... Continue Reading →
Friday 9th August 2019 at the Camden People’s Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Sam Rees’ Where is Ban Ki-Moon? is one of those intriguing productions which manages to transform entirely between beginning and end. The method behind the madness is revealed and the details which alienate suddenly endear and ingratiate; assumptions and reactions to characters are likely... Continue Reading →
