Accidental Collective are an interdisciplinary performance company based in Kent. We spoke to them about their new show, Here’s Hoping; an intimate collage of hopeful stories for these dark times, from Leningrad in 1942 to current day Aleppo, from Obama to Enya. What inspired you to create Here’s Hoping? We […]
Harriet Bignell reviews Appetite as part of the Tellit Festival. Holli Dillon’s Appetite is a funny and touching piece with a slightly unsettling undertone. My initial impression was, were it not for the program synopsis, I would have had little idea that this is a one women play […]
Harriet Bignell reviews The Marked at Oval House In an insightful and conscience pricking performance, Theatre Temoin provide a chilling glimpse into the life of homeless Jack, on the streets of London. In an eerie opening, the characters perform a sequence of movements which move Jack from sinister […]
Harriet Bignell reviews Code 2021 by Autumn Secret Theatre Project Never before have I exited a theatre uttering the expression, “wow, that was powerfully awful.” However, there seems no more fitting analysis of the 3 hours (yes, 3 hours) I sat through at Secret Studio Lab’s Code 2021. The play […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews Skin A Cat at The Bunker A fabulous way to launch the inaugural season at The Bunker, Skin A Cat by Isley Lynn fits the underground space hand in glove. A double bed sits centre stage with very little else to distract from this intimate story […]
Simon Ward reviews Lunch & The Bow of Ulysses at Trafalgar Studios Two Steven Berkoff plays written 20 years apart telling the story of a couple’s first encounter and then the bitter reminiscences of their subsequent life together – Lunch (1983) and The Bow of Ulysses (2002). Played here […]
It’s starting to get cold and the nights are drawing in, so what better reason to spend a night at the theatre. Here are our top 5 plays to see this October: 1. Lunch and The Bow of Ulysses at Trafalgar Studios Witness a couple meeting for the first […]
If we break a leg, we accept that time and care will work it’s magic. Unlike a lot of physical ailments, Louise Breckon’s underlying larynx condition resulted in a total repositioning of her identity, both professionally and personally. In an (almost) one-woman show portrayed in autobiographical fashion, ‘Can […]
Acorn is a modern reworking of two Greek myths, and tells the stories of Persephone and Eurydice without the distraction of their male counterparts. It isn’t an Angry-Young-Woman play, railing against the patriarchy; it’s a clever use of an ancient tale that provides an amusing insight into the […]
As Litmus Fest comes to an end The PEG spoke to Jessica Murrain and Lucy Bairstow from Theatre With Legs about their experience of the festival. Murrain and Bairstow performed DIGS at the Pleasance, a beautifully devised piece about what ‘home’ means. At once funny and deeply moving, it captures […]
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