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Counting Sheep ★★★ (The Vaults, 17 February 2019)
This immersive production, telling the story of a couple whom met in the terrifying 2014 Kiev uprising, baffles just as much as it...


Drowned or Saved? ★★★ (Tristan Bates Theatre, 8 November 2018)
Geoffrey Williams’ new play recounts Primo Levi, the renowned Italian Jewish chemist, writer, and holocaust survivor, as he struggles to...


Frankenstein ★★ (Sutton House, 19 October 2018)
This feminist re-working of Frankenstein is infuriating. The concept seemed so strong - rewriting the monster as a female, questioning...


Jekyll & Hyde ★★★ (Chickenshed, 17 October 2018)
Chickenshed's production is admirable, taking Stevenson's text and creating a sung-through musical, with its main focus to captivate a...


The Wider Earth ★★★ (Natural History Museum, 9 October 2018)
The Natural History Museum is on to something with this foray into theatre, as the Jerwood Gallery is a beautiful setting for Charles...


Three Sat Under the Banyan Tree ★★ (Polka Theatre, 6 October 2018)
Polka's co-production with Tara Arts is the first UK stage adaptation of The Panchatantra, India's Aesop's Fables. The concept of the...


Foxfinder ★★ (Ambassadors Theatre, 6 September 2018)
What was described as "most compelling new work I have seen this year"1 by Michael Billington in its original run, at Finborough theatre...


Meek ★★★★ (Traverse Theatre, 11 August 2018)
The popularity of the recent The Handmaids Tale TV adaptation seems to have tainted Penelope Skinner's chance of success with Meek, as if...


Ballastic (1st March 2018, Kings Head Theatre)
Ballistic has become even more relevant, and will continue to do so, since its Edinburgh run. Devastating as that is, considering it...


What Once Was Ours (5th October 2017, Half Moon Theatre)
Exposing and questioning young people's perceptions of immigration and Brexit in the microcosm of a brother and sister's relationship,...
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