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Review: Scenes for Survival – Credo, National Theatre of Scotland
How do you turn a poem into a piece of theatre? Morag Fullarton’s answer, as she directs Liz Lochhead’s 2016 poem Credo into a charming seven-minute short as p...
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4.0
Review: Scenes for Survival – The Quiz, National Theatre of Scotland
In one view, Sanjeev Kohli and Isobel McArthur’s The Quiz, a six-minute comic short written as part of the National Theatre Scotland’s Scenes for Survival, is ...
3.0
Review: The Watsons, Menier Chocolate Factory
From beginning to end, The Watsons pays homage to Jane Austen. Laura Wade’s experimentally metatheatrical play engages Austen’s wit, showcases the wonderful vi...
5.0
Review: Blood Wedding, Young Vic
‘Marina is a lightning conductor for pulling the visceral charge of language right through words and back into the earth where that force belongs.’ This is how...
4.0
Review: Youth Without God, Coronet Theatre
It is a stroke of genius. Christopher Hampton has decided to adapt Ödön von Horváth’s novel Jugend ohne Gott into a play. Set in the late 1930s, during the hei...
4.0
Review: The Permanent Way, The Vaults
The privatisation of the railways: how could this make for nearly two hours of exciting theatre? I’m sure I’m not the only one who wondered. Playwright David H...
Iris Pearson
Iris Pearson is an English student at Cambridge. When she finishes her degree she wants to: do a PhD in magical realism, learn to tango in Buenos Aires or run an elephant sanctuary in Indonesia.