Review: Write It: Mic It, Vault Festival
Run by Poleroid Theatre, this scratch night is well worth catching. It runs more regularly at the Hackney Attic, Castle Hotel Manchester and the Edinburgh Festi...
Tom Shore
Review: Cyrano de Bergerac, Southwark Playhouse
Edmond Rostand’s 1897 comedy may be over a century old, but there is nothing aged about it. The lyrical sparring and mockery throughout made for a fully rousing...
Review: The Devil Speaks True, The Vault
We start with instructions about our headphones. Each audience member has a pair. And then with a clunk, we’re enveloped into the pitch black. “It’s a normal...
Review: Orphans, Southwark Playhouse
Lyle Kessler’s most famous play received critical praise from the off when it premiered in 1983. A 2013 Broadway revival starring Tom Sturridge, Ben Foster, and...
Review: Feast, Battersea Arts Centre
It’s a lingering peaty smell that unsettles me as we enter the space. Jennifer Swingler, Sacha Plaige and Charles Adrian form a contorted tableaux less than a m...
Review: To She or Not to She, Lyric Hammersmith
joue le genre’s one-woman show pitches to us that Shakespeare wrote no decent roles for women. But to make matters worse, theatre institutions – from the powerh...
Tom Shore
Tom studied English at university, and now works as a school teacher. On the lookout for unexpected and thoughtful theatre, he is keen to reach to all corners of the arts world to find something to tell his students about.