A story to charm and peppered with magic, quite literally in this instance – writer, director and performer Rob Drummond’s tale of an ill-fated bullet catch some 100 years ago was engaging and deftly enthralling. The story of the audience member called… Read more →
Book Burning was a one-man surreal rollercoaster ride through the history of political thought, running from Schrödinger’s cat to Wikileaks, totalitarianism, the Occupy movement to book burning, all told against the backdrop of a girl and her father and their cat. You… Read more →
Rarely have I seen a play that so deftly switched between beauty, joy, terror and despair; playful and funny one moment, seductive and disturbing the next. This mirrored the mind of Louise, the bi-polar protagonist expertly realised by Julia Yevnine, whose descent… Read more →
Circus is hot and can be exciting, but it can also be a dull display of physical strength agility and expertise. Not so with Cassus who take all that and instill it with humour, emotion, wit and eroticism. Their show encompasses all… Read more →
Peter Michael Marino wrote a Blondie jukebox musical with the story of Desperately Seeking Susan, it was staged in London’s West End, it ran for a month. That’s the short version. In Desperately Seeking The Exit, New Yorker Peter took us through… Read more →
Sartre’s creaky existentialist 1944 drama with its famous dictum, ‘Hell is other people’, gets a revival at NVT. Garcin, Inez and Estelle have recently died and discovered themselves to be in hell, where they proceed to emotionally evicerate each other. With its… Read more →
The Secret Garden was good in parts, but it felt a little undercooked. The play was billed as a ‘dark’ adaptation, but the backdrop of Lord Craven and his wife’s romance was just nice, and there was no profound insight into human… Read more →
Solicitor’s clerk, Angela Clerkin, gets sucked into a world of violence when her supposedly murderous client explains a bear committed the crime. She starts investigating in a film noir pastiche only to realise the bear is stalking her. This allegorical tale of… Read more →
This is a series of award winning ten-minute plays delightfully presented with coffee and a croissant included in the ticket price. Fresh Fruit is a collection of five vignettes directed and produced by Nick Brice/Sam Holland and Sophia Wylie. Each play in… Read more →
Now maybe I am the wrong person, who knows, but I really didn’t like this. Forgive me for thinking that it was simply a messy and amateurish group of guys having fun with an old story. Why they took Beowulf and gave… Read more →
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