Review: Rubber Ring, Pleasance Theatre
From Velvet Trumpet comes James McDermott’s debut piece, Rubber Ring: a one man show about growing up gay in a rural Norfolk village. McDermott writes and perf...
Hattie Pierce
Review: Acorn, The Courtyard Theatre
Maud Dromgoole’s new work Acorn is a highly intelligent play in all aspects. It is a two-hander which uses the myths of Persephone and Eurydice to tell a contem...
Review: Party Trap, Shoreditch Town Hall
Ross Sutherland’s first drama Party Trap is an entirely palindromic play (title included) in which every line in the first half of the play is repeated in rever...
Review: The Mission, Greenwich Theatre
The use of physical theatre in this production is its main strength and certainly hints at the great potential this young company have. Marrying this physical t...
Review: The Inevitable Heartbreak of Gavin Plimsole, Greenwich Theatre
In this inventive and ambitious piece of theatre, SharkLegs pulls off an impressive feat by making an interactive adventure story both touching and very, very s...
Review: Cats, Selfies and the Scattered Mind of the Incurable Dreamer, The Space
Cats, Selfies and the Scattered Mind of the Incurable Dreamer is a verbal collage; a comedic piece of internet verbatim which is also a loosely coherent narrati...
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.