The Last Days of Liz Truss? post-show video and photos: New life for Liz and the lettuce
Liz Truss has kept herself busy since Oxia Theatre's spring 2025 run of the one-woman show chronicling her Westminster rise and fall. A year on, I reunited with the team for this political fighter's latest reinvention
Ballad Lines post-show video and photos: Expressing female empowerment via folk music
When director Tania Azevedo and composer Finn Anderson were first commissioned to write a new musical, they decided to follow two parallel lines of exploration.
The Rat Trap post-show video and photos: Spotting the signs in Noël Coward’s first play
Ask a theatregoer to name a Noël Coward play and they're likely to mention Private Lives, Hay Fever or Blithe Spirit. But before those glittering comedies secured his place in theatre history, “The Master” was busy mastering his craft.
Jamless post-show video and photos: Putting working-class women over 40 centre stage
How do you compete with fireworks going off outside your pub theatre on Bonfire Night? Ensure that the drama onstage is just as explosive. That's what we got last night with Nance Turner's debut play Jamless at the Lion & Unicorn.
Jupiter’s Ghost Origins post-show video and photos: Back to the future for a sci-fi prequel
It's a distinct pleasure to be invited back by a theatre company, even more so to be invited back to witness and celebrate the evolution of a concept. Like this one with the expanding universe of Tani Gill's Jupiter's Ghost.
Eh Up, Me Old Flowers! post-show video and photos: What is comedian Charlie Williams’ legacy?
Before Lenny Henry or Gary Wilmot, Charlie Williams paved the way as Britain's breakthrough black comedian who became a household name on ITV's stand-up show The Comedians. Chris England's new play celebrates his life.
At Last post-show video and photos: Fascism could never happen here, or could it?
Proforca Theatre concludes its tenth anniversary season with a revival of its 2019 dystopian thriller At Last, set in the aftermath of a fascist regime. Six years on, how does this politically-charged drama land?
Four Play post-show video and photos: Do monogamy and modern love mix?
In 2014, then twenty-something Jake Brunger was commissioned as part of the Old Vic New Voices emerging talent programme to write a “state of the nation gay play”. The result was Four Play, now in an updated version at the King's Head Theatre.
A Role to Die For post-show video and photos: Taking on a legendary spy film franchise
What makes a certain brand of spy so iconic? So quintessentially British? And, if you were in charge of that brand, how far would you go to keep control and protect its legacy?
Echo post-show video and photos: Exploring the ethics and relationship costs of cloning
At a secluded B&B, a couple arrives to celebrate their tenth anniversary. Twenty years later, another couple returns to the same room. What's the connection in the London premiere of Susan Eve Haar's Echo at the King's Head Theatre?
