Review: Brighton: Theatre Uncut, Circus Street Market
It’s hard to know where to start with Brighton: Theatre Uncut. Five short plays with so much to say – I left feeling overwhelmingly riled up. Ruthless in the...
Vivienne Franzmann
Edinburgh Review: Show 6, Summerhall @ Roundabout
Mark Ravenhill admired Sean Holmes’s Secret Theatre company so much that he wrote to him asking to be involved. Holmes said yes and Show 6 is the result. Whe...
Feature: Pests – “dark and brutal and fierce and dreamy and nightmarish”
(c) Katherine Leedale Pests is about two sisters, Rolly and Pink, who live in a tiny, rotting room and have nothing in the world but each other. They even c...
Mind over matter: Theatre and the big questions: What do you do when you can’t bear it?
Crimes of the Heart at the Bridewell Theatre
Contemporary theatre has a tendency to consider life’s big questions. Especially if a play has a political motive,...