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Which Shakespeare is right for you?
If you are wondering which Shakespeare to see in 2016 Mya Gosling, aka Good Tickle Brain has the perfect flow chart. http://goodticklebrain.com/home/2016/4/18/which-shakespeare-play-should-i-see-an-illustrated-flowchart Mya can also be found on Twitter as @goodticklebrain
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The Good Person of Szechwan, New Wimbledon Studio, 5 May 2016
Theatrical Niche’s production of Bertolt Brecht’s The Good Person of Szechwan is a bold piece to do for any theatre. The play is set in China and is about prostitute Shen Te and her quest for goodness and morality, in a world where there is none. It is the sort of thing you’d imagine the Young Vic putting on…
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Criticising the Critics: Why reviewing performance is impossible
In my day job I work for an exam board and coordinate practical drama exams (my life is surrounded by DRAMA!) and I recently attended a training day for our examiners, it became clear that analysing performance is actually impossible, unlike other performance exams such a music it feels utterly subjective, even guidance seems impossible…
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The Caretaker, 23 April, The Old Vic
The attraction to this production isn’t just that Harold Pinter’s play seems to be attract some very fine actors in all its adaptations, just look at its incredible production history over the last 55 years but that the Old Vic have managed a real on coup in getting Timothy Spall, one of Britain’s greatest character…
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Your Ever Loving, N16 Theatre, 21 April
I studied at London Metropolitan and one of my lecturers was the excellent Jonathan Moore, now working in the Journalism department but when I studied History he was the Irish History lecturer and set up my long term fascination with the ever complicated story of Irish History, which includes famine, fascism and civil war amongst other…
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#TheatreSoWhite
A friend recently sent me this speech by journalist Diep Tran at the recent American Theatre Critics Association conference, focusing on why theatre criticism in America was so white and whether it was racist, asking questions of Black and Ethnic Minority playwrights that it wouldn’t ask of white playwrights. It is a question that needs…
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Corbyn the Musical: The Motorcycle Diaries, Waterloo East, 20 April
There felt like a huge urgency to see ‘Corbyn the Musical: The Motorcycle Diaries’ when I booked in January. I wasn’t entirely sure Jeremy Corbyn, who doesn’t want to see this, would even still be leader by the time this opened at Waterloo East Theatre in April and after seeing it I am wishing Corbyn…
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Premium Prices; Inferior Manners
This originally appeared, edited, in UK Theate Magazine (February 2016) as an anonymous Soap Box article. As an audience member I am by no means perfect. I scrap every last bit of my interval ice cream, I push you out if the way if the theatre has unallocated seating and I like ice in my…
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Acclaimed book about breasts adapted as a stage play
http://www.mgso4festival.org/news/acclaimed-book-breasts-adapted-stage-play The inspiring book Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories, featured on television and talk shows across the world, is being brought to the stage for the first time in Ewell, Surrey. For two years, Epsom-based photographer Laura Dodsworth photographed and interviewed 100 women about their breasts, bodies and lives. The results…
View from the Cheap Seat 