Forced Entertainment are unpredictable, sometimes playing with an audience’s reaction as much as the conventions of performance; you can neverexpect, only anticipate. And it is that sense of anticipation that hangs in the air of the auditorium tonight. The stage is set with desks on either side, microphones, reading lamps, scripts, sound-desk and the ever […]

Inspired by the infamous feud between Hollywood actors Joan Crawford and Bette Davis, Bette & Joan is set in the bedroom of Bette Davis – where, in the last moments of her life, she is lying in bed wearing a nightie and hairnet, grumbling about her glamorous past whilst clutching a picture of her daughter in one […]

It was a chance remark from a friend that started me thinking. We were discussing the dilemma for contemporary ‘liberal’ parents in choosing whether to send children to private school or to throw them to the sharks of state education in the inner London boroughs, and this somehow moved on to a discussion about the number […]

This slow-burning and poignant new drama by the artists formerly known as Top of the World (responsible for 2008’s Fringe First Award-winningPaperweight) shows the company confidently deepening their unique focus on the challenges of what it is to be human, and particularly male, in the modern world. The production is grounded in powerfully nuanced performances […]

Somewhere in between ‘missing’ and ‘presumed drowned’ is – what? The limbo of the ladies’ loos, that’s what. So here we are, six of us (ladies and gents, the gents looking somewhere in-between embarrassed and intrigued), and as always there’s a queue, with two of three cubicles occupied – one by Virginia Woolf, and one […]