Theatre Things Blog
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Theatre Things is a blog all about theatre, pretty much what the name suggests. Here you can find reviews and random musings from a lifelong fan. Our blog has all the theatre news, reviews, and interviews from London, Kent, and around the UK. All my reviews are written not as a critic but simply as a member of the audience, who loves theatre and wants to support it.
Theatre Things Blog
1w ago
A world without religion might sound like a dreamy John Lennon lyric, but it’s a brutal reality in Bag of Beard’s unsettling thriller The Messiah Complex. A hundred years from now, the “Great Experiments” have… More ..read more
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1w ago
In a week when the UK government doubled down on its harmful and divisive rhetoric with regard to refugees and immigrants, Chickenshed’s new spring show Rush feels depressingly timely. At its core the story of… More ..read more
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2w ago
Back in 2009, when The Great British Bake Off first appeared on our TV screens, nobody could have predicted that a show about people making cakes in a tent would even get a second series,… More ..read more
Theatre Things Blog
3w ago
Susannah Cann started writing Violent Circumstances in response to the murders of Sarah Everard and Sabina Nessa in 2021. Since then, the piece has remained just as topical; the murders of Ashling Murphy, Lily Sullivan,… More ..read more
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1M ago
Tomorrow will be the third anniversary of the “modern day lynching” of Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man who was shot dead in Georgia in February 2020. Arbery was out jogging in the neighbourhood of… More ..read more
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1M ago
“Complicated, isn’t it?” says one of the characters early on in James Woolf’s The Play With Speeches – and they’re not wrong. As writer Anthony (Matthew Parker) sits down with director Penny (Katherine Reilly) to… More ..read more
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1M ago
Returning to the Chickenshed studio for 2023, the North London theatre’s annual showcase of new writing focuses this year on the theme of storytelling. Unlike previous years, there’s no single opportunity to see all nine… More ..read more
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1M ago
As adaptations go, they don’t come a lot more ambitious than Simon Reade’s reimagining of David Copperfield. The semi-autobiographical novel by Charles Dickens is known for its expansive cast of characters, and this production sees… More ..read more
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1M ago
The subject of Aoife Kennan’s Scratches is a tough one for many reasons – one of which is that, for very good reasons, she can’t actually talk openly about it. And so a sort of… More ..read more
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1M ago
You wouldn’t necessarily know until quite a long way into Callum Hughes’ one-man show Thirst that it’s a story about the time his frequent heavy drinking almost killed him. And that’s because it isn’t, really… More ..read more