Review: Hamlet, Almeida Theatre
Robert Icke’s Hamlet, at Almeida Theatre, has been eagerly anticipated, particularly since the announcement that Andrew Scott would be playing the lead. Ic...
Hattie Pierce
Review: The Long Trick, VAULT Festival
In Marietta Kirkbride’s new play The Long Trick, Tristan lives aboard a boat on the Helford river in Cornwall, and reluctantly robs second homes to support hims...
Review: Earthling, VAULT Festival
Gemma Arrowsmith’s comedy sketch show Earthling is a series of sketches which present the best and the worst of humanity to an objective alien observer. Arr...
Review: The Texas Tax Man, VAULT Festival
Luke Courtier’s latest show, The Texas Tax Man, is a meta-theatrical comedy about freelancers and the shame of missing the self-assessment tax deadline. Two...
Review: Anyone Can Whistle, Union Theatre
The Union Theatre’s decision to put on a rendition of Anyone Can Whistle is exciting: it is a lesser known Sondheim musical which has never enjoyed much fame or...
Review: Assisted Suicide – The Musical, Southbank Centre
Liz Carr, actor and prominent disability rights activist (D-list celebrity, in her own words), brought the enormous and tangled issue of euthanasia to the stage...
Hattie Pierce
Hattie lives in London and sees as much theatre as there’s time for. As well as reviewing theatre and live art, she is a script reader within film, and reads poetry and prose submissions. She also writes for the stage.