Review: Digital Ghosts/Children of the Revolution, Southwark Playhouse
A double bill of new works from Southwark Playhouse Young Company shows a group of young artists with their fingers firmly on the pulse of their generation, who...
Laura Peatman
Review: The Rite of Spring/Petrushka, Sadler’s Wells
Commissioned by Sadler's Wells as part of 2013’s ‘String of Rites’ series, celebrating the centenary of the premiere of Stravinsky’s original, Michael Keegan-...
Review: In This House (A Family Breakdown), The Space
There’s a moment in Act One of In This House when, on the witness stand, Vivian Charles succinctly depicts her first sexual encounter with lover Ted: “In the su...
Review: The Events, Southbank Centre
David Greig’s The Events garnered plenty of attention and acclaim when it premièred in Edinburgh in 2013, winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award. Exploring the a...
Review: Through His Teeth, Linbury Studio Theatre
As Gounod’s Faust arrives on the Royal Opera House’s main stage, the Linbury Studio Theatre hosts two world premières inspired by the classic tale. The first of...
Review: Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen
Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen presents itself as a comedy about a woman tying up the loose ends of her life before her suicide: presumably this clash of subje...
Laura Peatman
Laura is an English graduate, tea drinker and theatre blogger. She currently works as the press officer for RADA, as well as reviewing and sub-editing for A Younger Theatre and running her own blog.