Mr Scroggins welcomes you at the door as he checks you off his list before the evening’s spirits aka you the audience enter Scrooges parlour through the mock tavern where you are seated on wooden benches awaiting the evening’s proceedings to begin. Directed by Tom Bellerby Jacob Marley (Jack Witham)…

Rules for living directed by John Chapman is one of the most realistic Christmas plays I have seen in a long time. The decorations are up, presents are wrapped and dinner is in the oven. What more could anyone else wish for, silent night perhaps? It’s a Christmas family nightmare…

The Cunning Little Vixen was first performed on 6th November 1924 at the National Theatre in Brno. The version at the Mayflower Theatre in Southampton was a co-production by the Welsh National Opera and Scottish Opera, performed in Czech with English subtitles. Divided into three Acts the two hours long…

Bench at the Edge by Luigi Jannuzzi provides the audience with an interesting perspective on how things might look after somebody has attempted to commit suicide. From the long-standing patients kept alive on life support machines and now stuck in an afterlife limbo, to those hovering unconsciously between two worlds…

Photo credit Craig Sugden. After a ten year absence, la Clique is back in London performing in Leicester Square in the custom-built Spiegeltent. Don’t be deceived by the outside of this building as once inside you are transported into the realm of mystery and intrigue ready to be entertained and…

The new comedy spoof production by the Cheriton Players Diamonds are for Trevor is extremely well thought out, with a fantastic cast and full of quick-witted one-liners. The familiar Bond characters have been renamed which are all befitting of the spoof production, for example, Miss Spendapenny, Bigjob and Fanny Stravaganza…

Clay Party and Conflicted Theatre’s new play Fiji challenges the boundaries of a traditional rom-com while looking at how we live in the modern world. Could cannibalism become a reality if meat became less available through climate change and we saw a reduction in eating animals? When Sam (Pedro Leandro)…

The short film Be Good is a stark look at one lone parent struggle with her life stuck in a house that is deteriorating around them, a realisation that she is getting older and having a child to bring up alone is too much for the single parent in this…

After first meeting Jayne in Salisbury I was keen to do an interview with her to introduce more people to her work. The gritty writing from her last play Classified which was first performed in Salisbury and then transferred to the Lion and Unicorn in Kentish Town, where it earned…

Set in a beautiful iconic Scottish location next to Loch Lomond the last mermaid is a comedic, fictional short film which has a succession of funny one-liners and an eclectic concoction of characters. The highly renowned Scottish comedian Janey Godley stars in The Last Mermaid your first introduced to her…