Review: Cargo, The Arcola
I should have expected Cargo to be harrowing. In fact, if I’d thought about it I should have arranged an intravenous drip to rehydrate me after all the weepi...
Ettie Bailey-King
Review: Cleansed, National Theatre
Sarah Kane’s Cleansed is a tangled tapestry of torment. It depicts torture, rape, hanging, mutilation and murder. It has a couple of softer moments, in which lo...
Review: Treya’s Last Dance, Bridewell Theatre
Packing thought-provoking theatre into parcels of just forty-five minutes, the Bridewell Theatre serves up lunchbox-sized slices of the arts. Cradled between of...
Review: Houdini: The Art of Escape, Etcetera Theatre
When a play is based upon something dull - some obscure historical event or niche political case – one inevitably cuts it some slack. A musical based on EU fish...
Review: A Tit Show, Etcetera Theatre
A Tit Show manages to make boobs boring. Impressive, right? However little I enjoyed this show, I can’t help but heap praise on this particular point, bought at...
Review: Dark Matter, Etcetera Theatre
Puppetry and dementia aren’t the most obvious partners. Normally associated with slapstick silliness, it’s hard to imagine how puppets would provide a poignant ...
Ettie Bailey-King
Ettie is the outreach officer for The Schools Consent Project (@SCPLondon, www.theschoolsconsentproject.com) and a creative writer at Write Young Things (www.writeyoungthings.com)