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VENUE: JERMYN STREET THEATRE >>> ‘Perhaps’, muses Abigail Pickard Price on her quest to bring a brand new production of Pride & Prejudice to the London stage, ‘some might have thought us mad trying to bring this epic tale to life with only three actors.’ ‘I haven’t quite decided if we are or aren’t yet, but it is a rather exciting challenge.’ Crazy or not, she has...

VENUE: THEATRE ROYAL, HAYMARKET >>> Following on from a successful run at the Jermyn Street Theare, Farm Hall opens at The Theatre Royal Haymarket for its West End debut.  An impressive, seasoned cast including David Yelland (von Laue), Alan Cox (Heisenberg), Daniel Boyd (von Weizsäcker)...

VENUE: PLEASANCE COURTYARD, EDINBURGH >>> Think Better Manifesting Money, Real Estate and Hot People is my surprise package at the Edinburgh Festival this summer.  Playing in Bunker Two at the Pleasance Courtyard, we’re ushered into this intimate space and sat on three sides where we observe a simple stage set with incense sticks...

VENUE: UNDERBELLY, EDINBURGH >>> NewsRevue, which is celebrating its 45th year, returns to the Edinburgh Fringe again playing to large houses at the impressive Udderbelly.  This unique space which is the Underbelly's purpose built venue inside an enormous upside down purple cow which has...

VENUE: PARK THEATRE >>> Few questions are as difficult to answer as: ‘What does it mean to be human?’ but Sophie Craig’s debut play, I Love You, Now What? (directed by Olivier-nominated Toby Clarke) does a pretty good job at answering it through a tender exploration of anger, grief, love, lust, and laughter...

VENUE: COURTYARD THEATRE >>> “Freedom was not what I wanted, only a way out”. So says Red Peter, the narrator of the short story, A Report to an Academy, which of all of Kafka’s works is surely the one crying out the loudest for adaptation for the stage...