Paradise Green in The Vaults is the perfect setting for The Mad Woman written and performed by Cara Johnston. The smaller alcove theatre platform adds dramatic effect on the belief that she is locked away underground in an asylum for her safety, and other’s safety is not particularly clear as…

Breast cancer is a club Jane Japes never thought she would join, only ladies in the “pink club” were welcomed surely. Dead Inside takes the audience on an autobiographical journey explained through stand-up and spoken word describing her traumatic life-changing experience. Japes had to choose between whether she wanted to…

Art is subjective. What one person can look at as an art piece another looks at a line of washing! Ash created the knickers line piece in her kitchen during a creative mood and it’s displayed with pride in Kitchen Underwear. Ash and Zee become flatmates in the heart of…

Richard Dale is now Awake, Gay and Writing a Play having removed himself from the Jehovah’s Witnesses religion and sadly his family too. He chooses life and Freedom over the restraints and suppression he had been forced to live. Standing trial on charges of being gay by what appears to…

Red Peter the Ape in Report to an Academy has evolved to behave and talk like a human, based on the famous book by Franz Kafka and brought to the stage by Scena Theatre. Robert McNamara’s performance takes on ape-like characteristics especially when he returns to the chair and curls…

Enter the world of cooperate seminars highlighting the importance of well-being and how to balance time management while looking after your mental health. Yet all the time squeezing as much out of the person running these courses with little regard for any of those teachings applying to them. Adaptation:Enough Already…

Miss Havisham has always been depicted in the famous Charles Dickens novel Great Expectations in the role of the sad and bitter rejected spinster, who loathes men and seeks to destroy relationships around her. In Haversham  Heather Alexander presents a sympathetic backstory where she was once kind, innocent and considerate.…

Billed as a lip sync competition Split Lip is a dark play that delves into split personalities, and mental health conditions and takes the audience to the edge of their seats. Performed by the multi-talented Ginava. The switching up and over between characters was completely mesmerising. The dark macabre stage…

Growing up watching the carry on films was an integral part of my childhood. Can’t Stop Carrying On a one man performance by Darren Haywood in the role of Peter Rogers the man behind the idea of Carry On. Based on the life story of Peter Rogers from the carry…

Sea Words by Olly Gully follows an old-style seaside entertainer show by Chris who is one half of a double act with his Mother Christine. Her reluctance to come out from behind the seaside-themed curtains suggests there’s a problem. Gully’s over-the-top all smiles and energetic performance leads the audience through…