Review: Connections, National Theatre
Connections is the National Theatre’s festival of new plays for young people. This is the festival’s twentieth year, and the 2015 programme saw 10 new plays deb...
Alice Weleminsky-Smith
Review: Hay Fever, Duke Of York’s Theatre
Hay Fever is over 90 years old and, unfortunately, it shows. Coward’s comedy of errors about a dysfunctional family’s disastrous attempt to entertain guests was...
Review: Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly, Soho Theatre
Alex Horne: Monsieur Butterfly is a very unusual comedy show. Whilst stand-up comedy could usually be described as ‘someone standing still telling jokes for an ...
Review: Rules For Living, National Theatre
Sam Holcroft’s new play posits that everyone has coping strategies or ‘rules’ by which they live their life. In Rules for Living, we watch a family try to get t...
Review: Buyer and Cellar, Menier Chocolate Factory
Whilst the content of Jonathan Tolins’s play Buyer and Cellar is entirely fictional, it is based on a completely wacky truth: acting and singing phenomenon Barb...
Review: All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say, Ovalhouse
All The Things You Said You Never Said Before You Thought You Could Ever Say explores the struggles of one couple through four actors. Switching fluidly between...
Alice Weleminsky-Smith
When Alice is not busy pretending to study for her Drama and English degree at the University of Birmingham, she can be found making films with the student television station Guild TV, producing and directing theatre, writing for A Younger Theatre and What’s Peen Seen? and eating vast amounts of cheese