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An Exercise in Intensity Starring Nicole Cooper At first, we hear angry shrieks in the distance, whispers about a woman who doesn’t fit in,

“It is cruel – how the world keeps spinning. Despite everything.” So writes director Kolbrún Björt Sigfúsdóttir, describing the theme at...

This production of Blood Brothers feels like it exists in multiple times at once. It was written in the 1980s, set in the 1960s, and...

When it comes to discussions around social media, theatre tends to lag behind other forms of entertainment. There are exceptions, such as...

Plays about teenagehood usually fall into one of two traps. If they are created by grown-ups, whose visions of their teenage years are...

Is it possible to educate someone who isn’t posh? Though the bluntness of the central question of Educating Rita is a little out-dated,...

Often when we go to the theatre, we come to see dramatic battles, epic rivalries, and stories of grandeur that far exceed the petty drama...

Ironically, there’s something very reliable about a big-theatre mystery. For all the suspense and suspicion, you can be sure there will...

“Terribly boring, extra-marital monogamy.” When it comes to dramas centred on affairs, we’ve become hard to impress. Rust, written by...

When you move a story from medium to medium, the challenge you face is to hold onto what made it special in the first place. After the...