Review: Cream Tea and Incest, The Hope Theatre
Benjamin Alborough’s Cream Tea and Incest is less similar to the ‘Daddy’s Boy’ skit in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt than I thought it would be, which is good as a ...
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Review: Reared, Theatre503
Emotional labour is a necessary term, however misapplied it can sometimes now be, due to its high profile. John Fitzpatrick’s Reared is sympathetic to the often...
Review: The Service, King’s Head Theatre
Horror theatre, and horror comedies in particular, often leave you feeling grimy. FacePlant Theatre’s The Service, now in a revamped form at the King’s Head The...
Review: Is This Thing On?, Old Red Lion Theatre
Frigg Theatre is a Nordic company with an explicitly feminist focus, which aims to create original work “about subjects that are generally considered taboo”. Do...
Review: Three Sisters, Jack Studio Theatre
This new version of Chekhov’s Three Sisters, directed and written by Ross McGregor, largely leaves the play undisturbed in text and production: a depiction of t...
Review: The Great Wave, National Theatre
It’s a fantastic story, in that it’s one that is almost impossible to believe – yet, more fantastically, true – and brimming with potential. Francis Turnly’s Th...
Frey Kwa Hawking
Frey Kwa Hawking is a small person, full of hate, who lives and writes in London. He likes to go to the theatre and the cinema. Sometimes they let him in. He is trans and Malaysian-Chinese. He always orders xiao long bao. Follow him on Instagram at @absentobject.