Review: Barnbow Canaries, West Yorkshire Playhouse
While theatre often prompts its audiences to ask questions about the world we live in, it can also ask us to reflect on it, along with specific moments in histo...
First World War
Review: The Seagull, Theatro Technis
The Acting Gymnasium takes a classic play, Chekhov’s The Seagull and brings it into the First World War. The themes are timeless, looking at complicated relatio...
Edinburgh Review: The Bunker Trilogy – Morgana, C nova
I did not expect any spectacular, show-stopping scenery at the Fringe. There’s a level of understanding that, with limited budgets and generic black boxes to pe...
Edinburgh Review: Private Peaceful, Underbelly, Bristo Square
Simon Reade could not have chosen a better time to have adapted Michael Morpurgo’s war novel for the stage. Private Peaceful takes a different route to many WW...
Review: The Last Days of Mankind
Karl Kraus's The Last Days of Mankind is famously said to be “unstagebale”, so kudos to all involved in this production for actually getting the show onstage. I...