Review: Thark, Drayton Arms Theatre
As 1920s big band jazz music plays while the audience takes their seats, the energy is that of frivolity and high-energy jollity, which matches the image on the...
Matthew Parker
Review: Brimstone and Treacle, The Hope Theatre
It’s not hard to understand why Brimstone and Treacle was banned in 1976. Written by Dennis Potter as a television play for BBC’s Play for Today the work explor...
Review: Her Aching Heart, The Hope Theatre
Good genre parody is harder to get right than it looks. It has to have an intimate familiarity with (and more often than not, palpable affection for) its source...