The powerful writing is matched by Joseph Potter’s outstanding performance as the unfulfilled prodigy artist Sasha in Poltergeist. Offering a challenging and exhausting role for Potter who delivers the dialogue with precision and an abundance of energy. Ranging between strong outbursts of rage, and screaming to lucid clarity. All of…

That’s Not My Name written and performed by Sammy Trotman. The sixty-minute performance is based on her experience of being dragged through the mental health system for various conditions and addictions. Although as a self-professed attention seeker it isn’t clear at times where the real Trotman and the actor Trotman begin…

The Solid Life of Sugar Water is an exceptionally strong Seventy-five-minute performance from two highly emotive passionate actors. Alice (Katie Erich) and Phil (Adam Fenton) met in the Post Office queue and started talking. While there Phil has an untimely accident with his oversized “exploding” box of risque items he…

Understanding Domestic Violence takes time, patience and empathy. Victims escaping the clutches are often hard-wired into the chaos, torture and control of the narcissistic abuser which takes every ounce of strength to escape and start the healing process. Last Sales Conference of the Apocalypse takes you on a musical sporadic…

How can such a small item of jewellery create so much chaos and disruption? The blood coloured coral brooch appears to lead the wearer to become obsessed with power and wealth. The Coral makes its first staged performance in one hundred years. The storyline is still relevant in our society…

Lillies of the Land is a frank and extremely well-researched play on the work carried out by the land girls during the war. Performed by two deaf and two hearing actors. The war effort by the Land Ladies during World War 1 and 2 isn’t given the representation in the…

Balloons have been featured for many years at birthday parties, weddings and events taking place across the world. Dedicating a play to three sections of history where travel using rockets, wings and balloons all feature is educational and entertaining. Please don’t be put off by the slightly sinister poster. Freya…

If you’re expecting to watch an adopted play from the pen of the famous author Agatha Christie then you might feel slightly disappointed when you realise it isn’t. However, the plotline, twists and turns fail to disappoint and draw the audience into the storyline with bated breath. Theatre critic Arthur…

When it comes to a good old-fashioned whodunit-style comedy. New Old Friends bring Crimes on Centre Court to the stage. Delivering an excellent service in concluding who murdered Lord Knows (Emile Clarke). Lord Knows senior is murdered while eating his strawberries and cream laced with Brandy. His son the new…

It’s rare as a reviewer to be invited to a tour of the Theatre as part of your invitation package. Tonight before being watching Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch. Behind the scenes at The Mast in Southampton gave the group of invited press a comprehensive and…