Find out what critics have been saying about The Gunpowder Plot Experience at Tower Vaults, the new immersive experience bringing the history of the Gunpowder Plot to life.
‘Much to enjoy & explore’: In Someone Else’s Shoes: Edinburgh’s Unexpected Summer (Online review) ★★★★
Someone Else’s Shoes, the Traverse’s immersive online presentation conceived and directed by Hannah Price, is a thought-provoking and wistful evocation of Edinburgh without its festivals.
‘Let the debate commence’: BUBBLE – Theatre Uncut (Online Review)
Kieran Hurley explores free speech and the nature of online debate in Bubble.
‘Many good debating points here’: BUBBLE – Theatre Uncut (Online Review)
Theatre Uncut’s Bubble, a streamed film about social media and the woke generation is educational, but unexceptional.
‘An enviable lightness of touch’: THE GIRL WHO FELL – Trafalgar Studios
Sarah Rutherford’s new play The Girl Who Fell, about teenage death, mourning, coincidence and healing, is sensitive and heartfelt.
‘Compelling tale’: THE GIRL WHO FELL – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
Writer Sarah Rutherford cleverly weaves together disparate elements of a sensitive story with subtlety and humour in The Girl Who Fell.
‘Looks at the big picture through the small detail’: THE GIRL WHO FELL – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
Trafalgar Studios, London – until 23 November 2019 We can only judge the dead through the narratives of others. When those narratives contain a level of both culpability and finger-pointing, who are we to believe? And should it matter when the dead girl at the heart of their concerns is a 15-year-old who committed suicide by jumping from a road …
The Girl Who Fell Q&A video: How is social media damaging our children?
I feel like I’ve known writer Sarah Rutherford for years… that’s one of the positives of social media. (We follow each other on Twitter.) The irony is it’s her new play, The Girl Who Fell, about some of the negatives of social media that finally precipitated my meeting her in person.
‘Thoroughly modern, soul searching & hilarious play’: THE GIRL WHO FELL – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
The aftermath of a teenager’s death really shouldn’t be this funny, but Sarah Rutherford has created a thoroughly modern, soul-searching and hilarious play.
‘Heartbreaking, heartwarming & really funny’: THE GIRL WHO FELL – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
The Girl Who Fell, directed by Hannah Price, is about grief, guilt, childhood innocence, love, pain, agony, truth and facing the truth and with all those ingredients you get a poignant and quite moving performance.
‘Powerful, funny & sensitive piece of drama’: THE GIRL WHO FELL – Trafalgar Studios
Sarah Rutherford’s powerful and honest play The Girl Who Fell examines grief, mental health and the influence of social media in a brilliantly sensitive way.
‘One of the most stimulating new plays this year’: END OF THE PIER – Park Theatre ★★★★
Offering two hours of compelling and arguably unmissable theatre combining humour and cliche together with many unpalatable home truths, End of the Pier is one of the most stimulating new plays this year.
‘A sharply observant & compelling play’: END OF THE PIER – Park Theatre ★★★★
Overall, End of the Pier is a sharply observant play that is transformed into a compelling production that makes the audience sit up and pay attention.
INTERVIEW: Spotlight On… Again director Hannah Price
‘This is essentially a play about family. It is about how family underlines everything we do. We all have family in one form or another.’
FOOTLOOSE – Peacock Theatre
Jukebox musicals are fine in their place, movie adaptations likewise are ever increasingly the norm, but they need love and inspiration to elevate them.
FOOTLOOSE – Touring Belgrade Theatre, Coventry
Footloose as an individual track is a tune I have been familiar with and known the words to since I can remember. Footloose as a show with a full range of foot-tapping musical numbers (which I could now listen to on repeat) I was not at all familiar with, however the incarnation of the show which is currently playing at Coventry Belgrade Theatre, is now rooted as a firm favourite.
RUN THE BEAST DOWN – Finborough Theatre
Run the Beast Down, which runs in rep with Carmen Nasr’s Dubailand. Run the Beast Down is a solo show in which actor Ben Aldridge performs a 90-minute monologue about Charlie, a young man who is in bad trouble.
NEWS: Finborough rediscovers Arthur Miller’s Incident at Vichy in new spring season
The Finborough Theatre’s new Spring Season features three rediscoveries from Arthur Miller, BS Johnson and Victorian theatrical revolutionary T. W. Robertson, and three brand new plays including Carmen Nasr’s Dubailand.
FOOTLOOSE – Touring
Sell a Door Theatre company bring high energy to the stage with the invitation to cut loose with Footloose. But while there’s energy aplenty, don’t expect it to bring the Bacon.