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The Spending Review: Curtain Call for the Arts?
Originally written for Wessex Scene. With the Spending Review due on 20 October 2010, public services across the country are bracing themselves for deep and potentially damaging cuts. In the arts...
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Theatre on a Shoestring
As a student of limited funds, I have lost count of the number of times people have asked me how I afford to feed my expensive theatre habit. Admittedly a fair number of my theatre trips are...
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The Show Goes On
Originally written for Wessex Scene. Britain’s politics over the last few months have been dominated by the two c-words: coalition and cuts. It is now over three months since the government released...
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Review: Frankenstein, National Theatre, Wednesday 16 March 2011
Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mould Me man? Did I solicit thee From darkness to promote me? John Milton, Paradise Lost It is possibly the greatest marketing ploy known to theatre: two...
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From Page to Stage: Mary Shelley’s ‘Hideous Progeny’
‘And now, once again, I bid my hideous progeny go forth and prosper’ Mary Shelley In 1816 on Lake Geneva an 18 year old girl named, as she still was then, Mary Godwin, had a terrible dream of a...
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Weekly Round-Up: Sunday 15 May 2011
It’s time once again for a whistle-stop tour of all the news stories making waves in theatreland over the past seven days. Dramatis personae Joanna Riding, currently appearing in Kneehigh’s ill-fated...
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Review: Grief, National Theatre
Lives lost and lives wasted are at the heart of Mike Leigh’s aptly-named new play at the National Theatre. The title for the revered practitioner’s latest work was revealed less than two weeks before...
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Review: DNA, Unicorn Theatre
A group of teenagers are in trouble. Big trouble. What began as a playful bit of bullying – ‘a laugh’ – has spun wildly out of control and one of their classmates now lies dead in the woods. The only...
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Review: This House, National Theatre
Originally written for Exeunt. The opposing benches in the House of Commons are placed at a calculated distance of exactly two swords’ lengths apart; it is an arena which was, from the very first,...
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Review: Port, National Theatre
Originally written for Exeunt. There’s a striking moment, towards the end of this nostalgic, grit-flecked portrait of Stockport, when the concrete-clad surroundings perceptibly shift. Protagonist...
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