Review: Fire Sale, Theatre 503
Nestled between a one-woman show coming to terms with postnatal depression, and another one-woman piece grappling with the emptiness of many modern lives, four ...
Laura Gilbert
Review: Cut, The Vaults
A lipsticked, kitten-heeled lady welcomes us as we enter the performance space. Her manner is friendly and polite; the smile plastered on her face is the standa...
Review: Savage, Arts Theatre
The last time I found myself in the Arts Theatre's Upstairs, I was part of the bizarre journey that was Follow the Faun: an immersive dance experience which can...
Feature: Exploring Banquo’s Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The Devil Speaks True is an immersive, multi-sensory production that places each audience member into the “mind and body of Banquo” as we see the Macbeth narrat...
Feature: Eggs as a symbol of female power
When I ask Florence Keith-Roach about the title of her piece, Eggs, she describes her sister’s gastronomic quirk: “she hates eggs, and finds them the most disgu...
Feature: Meeting The Gate’s Medea, Emma Beattie
Emma Beattie performs the title role in The Gate’s Medea, a production that modernises the ancient myth, showing it from the perspective of the two ill-fated so...
Laura Gilbert
Laura Gilbert is a longstanding lover of theatre, most likely to be found expounding on the merits of interactive performance, the versatility of Renaissance revenge tragedy or the necessity of watching her new favourite macabre musical.