Always, Sometimes Maybe, 4****

Lou (Michele Stine) is a janitor who struggles to make connections with other people. In fact she finds it much easier to talk with the puppets she makes herself out of the various bits of thrown away plastic and other … Read More

Operotica: Lovers in Every Lifetime 4****

Operotica bill themselves as the UK’s “premier kinky opera duo” which I’m willing to believe they are. Consisting of the classically trained and immensely talented Amber Reeves and Dani Croston, Operotica play two lovers doomed to a cycle of endless … Read More

Soaked 4****

How much is too much? For Imogen and Rich, a successful professional couple with busy careers and young children, wine has become such an integral part of their lives that it is difficult to imagine their evenings without it. Emma … Read More

The Great Train Robbery 4****

One of the most famous British crimes of all time, the Great Train Robbery in 1963 set the nation’s imagination ablaze, with both criminals and the police hunting them becoming larger-than-life figures and household names. With a whopping £2.6 million … Read More

The Spy Network 4****

There is something particularly appropriate about seeing The Spy Network at Riddles Court. This atmospheric 16th-century building has its own connection to Mary Queen of Scots’s family: her son, James VI, held a banquet here. The company deliberately chose the … Read More

Slayers by Corinne Salisbury – 5*****

Corinne Salisbury’s Slayers is a gripping exploration of female anger and the corrosive influence of the manosphere.

Played magnificently by Zoe Hunter, Liane is a woman constantly struggling to keep her pent-up fury under control. Any slight against her daughter, … Read More

SpinQueen™ 4****

There’s something inherently metaphorical about a static bike – a form of transport that

goes nowhere regardless of how long you ride. Motion without movement. The act of

pushing forwards while remaining still. It’s perhaps unsurprising that it therefore makes

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Kanpur:1857 5*****

There are few performances I can think of which start with a more powerful image than a frightened prisoner strapped to the mouth of a cannon, waiting for it to fire and this is exactly how Kanpur: 1857 begins. A … Read More

44 Minutes 4****

This show is a thriller theatre production performed by 4 professional actors in a small, caged venue which is brilliantly part of the show. The staging was minimal but brings the audience into the intense atmosphere that the show intends … Read More

Day of the Locust 4****

A one-person adaptation of Nathanael West’s 1930s novel of the same name follows Tod Hackett, a struggling artist in Hollywood who becomes disillusioned with the pull of the fickle movie rat race. He falls for wannabe actress Faye Greener and … Read More