Interview: Vikesh Godhwani – Peckham Fringe

Returning for a third year running, Theatre Peckham is delighted to present their brand-new lineup for Peckham Fringe this 2024! This inclusive and dynamic performing arts festival will showcase a lineup of over 20 outstanding artists and creatives from the local London community, with groundbreaking emerging writers, moving new musicals, clowning and spoken word, it’s the festival…

Interview: Rachel Stockdale – Fat Chance

Rachel Stockdale’s powerful one-woman play, Fat Chance, is heading on tour around the UK this Spring, coming to Camden People’s Theatre on 26th-27th April. Stockdale speaks out with sincerity on the struggles faced by anyone grappling with the pressures of toxic beauty standards and body shaming.  Written and performed by Rachel Stockdale, this powerful one-woman play has…

Review: Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ After 10 years in the west end, multiple international productions and a smash hit TV show, Mischief Theatre has undoubtedly become a household name. Together, the team have reinvented slapstick comedy within the theatre industry and have continuously produced works that can only be described as excellent. The same can be said for their…

Interview: Greg Hicks – The Dream of a Ridiculous Man

Screen and stage star Greg Hicks has been cast in the one-man production of The Dream of a Ridiculous Man at Marylebone Theatre this spring. Adapted and directed by multiple Olivier Award-winning director and writer Laurence Boswell, this hot-button production is based on Dostoyevsky’s story of the same name. Exploring climate change, nationalist politiciansand the impact…

Review: Syncopation @ Brideswell Theatre

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ It’s 1912 in New York and factory worker Anna Bianchi is looking for a little more excitement from life. Inspired by the success of Irene and Vernon Castle, she responds to an ad in the newspaper for a dance partner. After climbing the 108 stairs to his grotty studio, Bianchi meets Henry Ribolow. A…

Review: Find Me – Questors Theatre

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewed by Jennifer Laishley Find Me follows the real story of Verity and her family’s struggles to get help and support for her behavioural issues. Today we would recognise Verity’s symptoms as somewhere on the austistic spectrum, but this diagnosis is not mentioned in Olwen Wymark’s play. This is a serious play highlighting a…

Review: Starter for Ten – Bristol Old Vic

“Directed by Charlie Parham, the production begins by replicating the film’s screenplay, but swiftly transcends into an original and entertaining masterpiece filled with 80’s nostalgia and memorabilia.”

Interview: Alana Ramsey and Lizzie Stables – Nanny

She said to me this morning “everything you do fails’’ because I spent twenty minutes trying to work out how to fit her car seat. She just sat there just going “fail, fail, fail, fail, fail” while I was scrabbling away on YouTube looking up how you fit the Maxi Cosi Pearl 360. “Everything you…

Interview: Juraj Benko – Honey Badger

The international co-production Honey Badger will arrive in London for its U.K premiere this April, marking the first visit of a Nordisk Teaterlaboratorium production to the U.K in over 10 years. Presented by Arielle Zilkha, the co-production between the Danish company and Slovak actor Juraj Benko will come to The Cockpit for five performances from…

Review: Stitches

⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewed by Jennifer Laishley Stitches is a unique play that explores the story of Chloe from the perspective of her teddy bear. Although the play was well acted, some of the humour didn’t quite land as well as it was intended and the play had some overall pacing issues towards the end. Nevertheless the…