Nickolas Nickleby Part 2 Review

Nicholas Nickleby Part 2

Community and Passion. Nickolas Nickleby Part 2 at ‘The Space’ is a play that is alive through passion and love of the theatre. Director, Adam Hemming, and Producer, Mari Rettedal-Westlake, took on one of the most difficult and ambitious theatre projects out there and, the entire creative team did manage to create some nice tempos, immersive [...] Read more »

No Picnic Review

No Picnic

I’m not going to tell you much about this as anything said will be a spoiler. Suffice to say that it is sort of a fairytale for adults. There are teddy bears, the like of which you probably will not have encountered, who get involved in things that you definitely will not have connected with [...] Read more »

London Spring Review

London Spring

The premiss behind this one act dystopian fantasy is the supposed passivity of the British until under extreme pressure. Set in the tourist lounge of Waterloo station (good idea that  – we should have one for grockles, one for emmets) it centres round an ex-Oxford don and his ex-doctor daughter, their working class, epileptic friend [...] Read more »

Playhouse and Definitely the Bahamas

Playhouse & Definitely The Bahamas

The tiny Orange Tree is a theatre designed to hug its audience close, and Martin Crimp’s directorial debut transforms that hug into something of a heimlich, with this brawny double bill. Presenting a specially commissioned new play, alongside one of his earliest – Crimp offers a substantial 40th birthday present to the theatre that helped [...] Read more »