• The Greatest Thing You’ve Ever Seen @ Nottingham New Theatre

    Guiding the audience throughout the protagonist’s struggles in the process of creating a film, Tom Proffitt’s The Greatest Thing You’ve Ever Seen is a hopeful portrayal of how personal and physical obstacles can be overcome with conviction, perseverance, and a little help from your friends. The play opens with...
  • The Super Awesome Happy Fun-Time Trick Performance @ Nottingham New Theatre

    Chaotic, comical and self-aware, The Super Awesome Happy Fun-Time Trick Performance by Ben Webber is an absurdist piece of comedy that is reminiscent of meta-theatrical works such as The Play That Goes Wrong, where the boundaries of the set, the audience, and the characters themselves are constantly broken down....
  • All The World’s a Stage and Other Stories @ Nottingham New Theatre

    Experimental theatre with hilarious results! Yee Heng Yeh’s All The World’s a Stage and Other Stories is a brilliant play that blurs the boundaries, to say the least, whilst transporting you into everyday worlds that make you reflect on whether we are all just players on a stage. The...
  • The Pride @ Nottingham New Theatre

    Emotionally charged and curiously optimistic, The Pride by Alexi Kaye Campbell explores the dynamics of relationships fraught with repressed emotions and unspoken words. The play constantly switches between two storylines – one set in 1958, where homosexuality is still very much criminalized, and the other in 2008, where progress...
  • Contractions @ Nottingham New Theatre

    With minimalistic set and lighting designs, Contractions relies on the strong performances of the two leads and Mike Bartlett’s darkly humorous script to create a thoroughly engaging, enjoyable narrative regarding individual privacy and freedom in the corporate world. For the entire play, the set consists of little more than...
  • You may not want to live in a world where Trump wins, but you do

    Before polling day, a Trump victory was inconceivable. Who would actually vote for Trump? Only a few stray Facebook commenters who have considerably fewer ‘likes’, if social media were anything to go by. As it turns out, however, the more accurate answer to that is ‘more than 59 million...
  • Trailer Watch – Logan

    Logan, based on Mark Millar’s Old Man Logan series, is set to be the final solo Wolverine film, after X-Men Origins: Wolverine (2009) and The Wolverine (2013). Directed by James Mangold, it stars (who else?) Hugh Jackman as the eponymous character. Now, Wolverine has always viewed his power –...