GCSEs really stay with you, don’t they? It’s hard to be objective about a play when you find yourself anticipating lines before they’re spoken, words being dredged up from the depths of your school memories.
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GCSEs really stay with you, don’t they? It’s hard to be objective about a play when you find yourself anticipating lines before they’re spoken, words being dredged up from the depths of your school memories.
Read moreLove Song to Lavender Menace is a heart-warming tribute to ‘Lavender Menace’, a real-life lesbian, gay and radical feminist bookshop which opened on Edinburgh’s Forth Street in 1982, against the backdrop of Thatcher’s homophobic reign and subsequent underground queer publishing.
Read moreFrom the National Theatre to a national tour, Inua Ellam’s Barber Shop Chronicles highlights important messages. The play explores diaspora and masculinity within black culture, leaping between several barber shops from around the globe – England, Zimbabwe, Uganda, Ghana, Nigeria, and South Africa – over the course of a single day.
Read more“Deliciously naughty”. The line that got the largest laugh, and one which summarises what was unexpectedly the most wonderful play I’ve seen in a long time.
Read moreIt’s a lot of words, I’ll give you that. Monologues are a gargantuan task at the best of times, let alone when the entire production is an hour-long solo effort. So why did I feel so underwhelmed by a nationally-touring, critically-acclaimed production that promised – at the very least – a thought-provoking evening?
Read moreTaking on important issues of the time like gentrification, the poverty trap, and police tensions within the black community, Two Trains Running gives a picture of post-WW2 Pittsburgh and the aftermath of the death of Martin Luther King Jr.
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