221 stories by "Liz Dyer"
Kathryn O'Reilly's second play Poisoned Polluted focuses on the fragmenting relationship between two women " in this case, sisters.
While this reimagining of Gaslight doesn't necessarily deliver on all its promises, the production does successfully highlight the continuing relevance of both the story and its core issue.
Based on a true story, Kate Barton's play Fast invites its audience into the disturbing world of "Dr" Linda Hazzard (Caroline Lawrie), whose controversial fasting diet method claimed the liv…
As with any dystopian drama, the central idea of Florence Bell's The Open " the GBGC itself " sounds far-fetched, but the foundations on which it's built aren't all that implausible.
Arrows & Traps' The Strange Case Of Jekyll & Hyde is one for a new generation: an endlessly thought-provoking, unsettling, enthralling production that's not to be missed.
Just as much as the emotional impact, though, it's the unique and original approach to the subject matter that makes this debut production from Turn Point Theatre particularly memorable.
Touching on themes of religion, sexuality and more than one form of mental illness, the play asks some difficult questions and frequently makes for unsettling viewing, and yet Ned Bennett's …
While most of us would probably be willing to admit that Taming of the Shrew is far from Shakespeare's best, Canadian actor, writer and comedian Gillian English has gone a step further and m…
Writer and director Ben SantaMaria experienced for himself growing up as a gay man in 80s Britain. He wrote the autobiographical show Really Want to Hurt Me as a way to explore what has " an…
With immigrants across the USA bracing for planned Ice raids this weekend, Lunatic 19's, a topical new play by Iowa-based writer Tegan McLeod, shines a spotlight on the soullessness and absu…
One Giant Leap is a very silly story with no other mission in mind but providing two hours of pure entertainment.
Dark Sublime is a rare personal drama about an older gay woman trying to find her place and identity in a changing world, with plenty of laughs " particularly aimed at the world of showbiz "…
In touching on topical issues like knife and gun crime, drugs, discrimination, misogyny and the disaffection of young people in the UK today, Othello: Remixed demonstrates how Shakespeare's …
There's nothing historic about the issues Bare: A Pop Opera tackles, as is emotionally demonstrated in the powerful finale of this new London production at The Vaults.
James Martin Charlton is an award-winning playwright whose previous work includes the critically acclaimed Fat Souls, I Really Must Be Getting Off and Coward. This week sees the premiere of …
Insightful, relatable and beautifully performed, let's hope, unlike the eponymous hedgehog, Hedgehog has a long life ahead.
Robert Khan and Tom Salinsky could have come up with a more creative title for their acclaimed political comedy Brexit " but they didn't really need to, given that actual Brexit has been a m…
Over the last five years, 13-time Offie-nominated Arrows & Traps have become a regular fixture both on the London Fringe scene and on this blog. And the good news is they're not going an…
Cuttings is a sharp, witty and hugely enjoyable play about an industry we all know exists, but somehow seem to forget every time we watch an emotional YouTube apology or read a remorseful st…
Action-packed, irreverent and hilariously weird, Kill Climate Deniers nonetheless still succeeds in making a serious and important point, and provides more than enough food for thought to gi…
It may be called Precious Little, but this thought-provoking play at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre has plenty to say.
The image we're left with is not one of violence in J'Ouvert at Theatre503, but of pride, friendship and resilience, and a community that's prepared to keep fighting for as long as it takes …
The plot of Country Music may at times be slightly muddled, but the sense of waste and irretrievable loss at its heart comes through powerfully in this excellent revival.
A complex, surprising and very wordy play, Harper Regan by Simon Stephens certainly fulfils the remit for newly formed theatre company Contentment Productions, whose aim is to champion excit…
This week playwright, director and performer Michelle Payne brings her one-woman show Sad About The Cows to Tristan Bates Theatre.
