After witnessing segregation and tribalism at the school gates, actress Félicité Du Jeu wrote Spiked to show “what mothers have in common rather than focus on their differences”. ...
Before you enter the theatre, you are asked to join a special WhatsApp group as part of the show. For once, we are not asked to switch off our phones. ...
James Fritz’s new play is bold, fresh and acutely observed – but also an incredibly uncomfortable theatrical experience. Continue Reading A Cry in the Dark: Parliament Square at ...
Emi Howell’s play, about the British-Iranian charity worker currently imprisoned in Iran, is political theatre at its best. Continue Reading Looking for Mummy: Nazanin’s Story: An Urgent Call ...
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ searing satire on magazine journalism was a finalist for the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. Continue Reading The Write Stuff: Gloria at the Hampstead Theatre
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I saw Anatomy of a Suicide the night of the election. As it turned out, it could have described the results. Continue Reading A Genealogy of Trauma: ...
Andrew enters in a dishevelled school uniform. He looks young: 16. He’s never been here before. He stands and stares for a while. He goes over to one of the ...
Matt Parvin, this week’s author, will soon see his debut play premiere at the Finborough Theatre in Earls Court. Continue Reading The Wednesday Play: The Hyperviolent ...
A Puppet Tale is the first of a new fortnightly feature publishing short plays by some of the most exciting emerging theatre practitioners. Continue Reading The Wednesday ...
In our second round-up, a meditation on grieving, a factually-driven examination of the refugee crisis and a tale of loneliness in the social media age. Continue Reading VAULT ...
In this exhilarating debut, a young man at a crossroads is haunted by a murderous urban fox. Continue Reading What Does The Fox Want?: Run the Beast ...
In our latest VAULT round-up, two new writing talents and a unique electronic immersive experience. Continue Reading VAULT Festival Round-Up: On the Crest of a Wave, A Haunting ...
The fractured Abigail at the Bunker Theatre is like watching an episode of Art Attack if the TV had turned off halfway through. Continue Reading A Fractured Mosaic: ...
Has the digital era of Facebook and Tinder destroyed the game of love? B.L. Sherrington reviews a pair of plays by an award-winning Australian playwright. Continue Reading Love ...
Camilla Whitehill’s debut play is short, but it sure packs a hell of a punch. Continue Reading A Hell of a Punch: Where Do Little Birds Go? at ...
The Acedian Pirates, by debut playwright Jay Taylor, is not afraid to take on themes of warfare and the power of myth. Continue Reading Why We Fight: The ...
Stuart Slade’s inventive, rich BU21 – which imagines a horrific terrorist attack on London – shows that a play can explore issues of grief and calamity without ever being a ...
Florence Keith-Roach’s Eggs, which has just finished its run at the VAULT Festival, is the mark of an impressive talent. Continue Reading Dancing On My Own: Eggs at ...
Last month, Sophie Sellars attended Foyles’ inaugural New Writers Evening – and came away invigorated. Continue Reading A New Chapter: New Writers Evening at Foyles Bookshop
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The mid-life crisis of a bored housewife is certainly nothing new – one need only watch Shirley Valentine. How does this new play, by hotly-tipped young writer Sarah Simmonds, measure ...