Jenni Fagan’s The Panopticon is unmissable in its new translation to the stage at the Traverse Theatre. In a dystopian-esque setting, we meet Anaïs Hendricks having just been returned to the custody of her latest care home by a less-than-friendly police officer.
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Love 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.
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From 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.
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An Inspector Calls is a play that will remind many British 20-somethings of their A-Level English Literature classes. Mine was unusual, however, in that we didn’t study this play – but I heard many of my friends lamenting over it!
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‘Fly Me to the Moon’ follows Francis and Loretta, two community care workers who find their elderly charge dead in his bathroom. When they realise they can gain from his death, they delve into morally grey areas.
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The true story of the conception of Bertold Brecht and Kurt Weill’s groundbreaking work, The Threepenny Opera, this play with music is funny, gripping and aesthetically compelling.
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