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‘Economically written & absolutely truthful’: VESPERTILIO – King’s Head Theatre (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Louise Penn1st May 2021Leave a Comment

Barry McStay’s play Vespertilio, first staged at the Vault Festival in 2019, is a two-hander about bats, vampires, gay life, lies, and displacement.

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‘Delightfully done’: VESPERTILIO – King’s Head Theatre (Online review)

In London theatre, Online shows, Opinion, Reviews by John Chapman25th April 2021Leave a Comment

Both Benedict Salter and Joshua Oakes-Rogers have created complex characters and handle the cut and thrust of Barry McStay’s dialogue with aplomb in Vespertilio.

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‘Its message could not be more needed’: TESTAMENT – Via Brooklyn (Online review) ★★★★★

In Online shows, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon29th March 2021Leave a Comment

Testament places some of the Bible’s most interesting bit part players in a modern setting and gives them centre stage.

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‘Intense & thoughtful’: MEAT – Theatre 503

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Liz Dyer29th February 2020Leave a Comment

Meat is an intense and thoughtful play, which doesn’t spoon feed answers to its audience but instead poses a set of questions and leaves us to process them in our own way and within the frame of our own experiences.

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‘Sparky & compelling story’: MEAT – Theatre 503

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Laura Kressly28th February 2020Leave a Comment

Writer Gillian Greer confidently addresses nuances and problems around sex and consent in Meat at Theatre 503 and director Lucy Jane Atkinson ensures tensions consistently run high.

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‘It’s a play about taking up space’: Lucy Atkinson on A Hundred Words for Snow & the joy of directing monologues

In Features, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Plays by Featured Content20th March 2019Leave a Comment

A Hundred Words of Snow, Tatty Hennessy’s coming-of-age adventure story, officially received its West End premiere last night at Trafalgar Studios, where Gemma Barnett stars until 30 March 2019. Check out our gallery of brand-new West End production photography – and then get booking!

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‘Touches, entertains & teaches’: A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW – Trafalgar Studios ★★★★★

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Debbie Gilpin13th March 2019Leave a Comment

A Hundred Words for Snow is a perfectly crafted one-woman show that touches, entertains and teaches, as it explores grief and polar exploration – a charming performance from Gemma Barnett.

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‘There is an epic reach to its ambition’: A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW – Trafalgar Studios

In London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Aleks Sierz12th March 2019Leave a Comment

Tatty Hennessy’s debut play A Hundred Words for Snow is a female monologue about loss and polar exploration that retains its attractive brightness and sass.

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PHOTOS: A Hundred Words for Snow celebrates its West End premiere

In Features, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Featured Content8th March 2019Leave a Comment

A Hundred Words of Snow, Tatty Hennessy’s coming-of-age adventure story, officially received its West End premiere last night at Trafalgar Studios, where Gemma Barnett stars until 30 March 2019. Check out our gallery of brand-new West End production photography – and then get booking!

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FEATURED SHOW: ★★★★★ Vault hit A Hundred Words for Snow transfers to Trafalgar Studios, read the reviews

In Features, London theatre, Native, Opinion, Plays, Reviews, Sticky, Touring by Featured Content28th February 2019Leave a Comment

Tatty Hennessy’s one-woman adventure story A Hundred Words of Snow gets its West End debut next week at Trafalgar Studios, already trailing a shedload of five-star accolade. We’ve rounded up our review highlights below. Time to get booking!

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‘We all know climate change is happening, it’s getting worse & we’re the cause’: Playwright Tatty Hennessy on A Hundred Words for Snow

In Features, Interviews, London theatre, Native, Plays, Sticky by Featured Content14th February 2019Leave a Comment

A Hundred Words of Snow, the acclaimed one-woman play about female empowerment and climate change, transfers to the West End next month. We caught up with playwright Tatty Hennessy about her own feminist role models and saving the world. Be sure to read Tatty’s fantastic Open Democracy piece on the power of stories too. Time to get booking!

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NEWS: Award-winning climate change play A Hundred Words for Snow transfers from VAULT Festival to Trafalgar Studios

In London theatre, Native, News, Plays, Press Releases, Sticky, Video by Featured Content23rd October 2018Leave a Comment

After success at this year’s VAULT Festival, including rave reviews from Mates Laura Kressly and Shanine Salmon, Tatty Hennessy’s one-woman play A Hundred Words of Snow transfers to Trafalgar Studios for a limited season in the new year… A Hundred Words of Snow will run at the West End’s Trafalgar Studios 2 from 5 to 30 March 2018, with a press …

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‘Moving without being hysterical’: A HUNDRED WORDS FOR SNOW – Vault Festival

In Festivals, London theatre, Opinion, Plays, Reviews by Shanine Salmon11th March 2018Leave a Comment

Hennessy is a strong writer, it would be difficult to ruin her work. In Lucy Jane Atkinson’s vision of A Hundred Words For Snow, it is a lot more scaled back than at the Arcola and I found this to be a positive.

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