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…

For working class boy Tommy (Tom Claxton) from Manchester to be offered a place at Oxford University is a dream come true. Nobody in his family, street, or classmates have ever been to University and the pressure to succeed and do well lies on his head in Manchester Anthem by…

Dealing with death is never a one-size-fits-all grieving process. As a comedian what else can he do but take it on stage and laugh? Ed Byrne explains why and how his younger brother Paul Byrne died through his side-splitting show Tragedy Plus Time. Where better to bring his brother to…

Get ready to go on a journey in the one-woman performance Spin Cycle by Jamie-lee Money. Drawn into the heady culture-like world of Spin Classes, which sounds like my idea of a nightmare with rows and rows of static Spin bikes and a class leader shouting instructions. Great exercise and…