Feature: Speaking out – Sochi 2014
"This is no time for complacency," says Tess Berry-Hart, "or appeasement, or political apathy." We're in a North London cafe with the writer's husband and frequ...
Billy Barrett
Feature: Weapons of Mass Creation – the Paul Robeson Art is a Weapon Festival
Denied permission to leave the US, actor and singer Paul Robeson famously telephoned in a performance to a Canadian trade union convention in 1952, singing ...
Feature: “Is ‘Fleabag’ a feminist action? Absolutely”
"People immediately assume it's you", says Phoebe Waller-Bridge when I ask about the challenges of performing her own writing. "We had that conversation early...
Latitude Festival: Maison Foo’s Pendulum’s Bargain Emporium
"I fell asleep during that one and dreamt about a woman giving birth to a pile of clothes," my friend confesses, feeling a little the worse for wear after our l...
Review Latitude Festival: The Frenzy
RashDash's The Frenzy is perfectly pitched for Latitude. Based on The Bacchae, this thirty minute music and dance show was composed by Becky Wilkie, who joins c...
Review Latitude Festival: MirrorballAr
AIDs, drugs, fabulous clothes and a bad father-son relationship. Sound familiar? Anthony Bull's Mirrorball relies on every gay cliché in the well-worn book, as ...
Billy Barrett
Billy currently studies English and Theatre at Warwick University. Between reviewing and reading for his course, Billy writes, directs and acts in theatre. He tries to see everything in London, Warwick and beyond!