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 →
Review: All the Little Lights at Tristan Bates Theatre
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 →
Review: The Net at Tristan Bates Theatre
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 →
Review: Discord of Discourse at the Tristan Bates Theatre
Wednesday 7th August 2019 at The Tristan Bates Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Bickering and debates are almost always at root about semantics. People take issue with the minutiae and from there the volcanoes either remain dormant or erupt. Couples all over the world are made up of opposites. Those with brains equally adept with the arts... Continue Reading →
Review: CLASS At Tristan Bates Theatre, London
Wednesday 31st July 2019 at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ CLASS begins in a slightly fish-out-of-water, uncertain way and quickly falls in step to give us insights into the lives of various individuals who consider themselves to be working class or working-middle class. We’re all naturally intrigued by the lives of others, and this... Continue Reading →
Review: When It Happens at Tristan Bates Theatre, London
Wednesday 31st July 2019 at the Tristan Bates Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ When It Happens combines powerful and topical issues spanning motherhood, sexual harassment, the ‘policing’ of women’s bodies and behaviours and the roles of women in general - more specifically, the oppressive roles of women. It feels reactionary and relevant but also a little too... Continue Reading →