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LION & UNICORN THEATRE: >>> A solitary white bench sits centre stage. A well-dressed woman enters, blue chambray shirt and sand coloured chinos with a smart belt. We realise she is on a Northern Line tube station waiting for the next train from the announcements. A young man, fresh from The City...

WHITE BEAR THEATRE >>> From the moment you walk into the theatre, you are met with a warm welcome from the cast and enter into a play within a play: Seven Days in the Life of Simon Labrosse. But who is Simon Labrosse? In the midst of Canada’s 1993 recession, struggling to find employment...

PARK THEATRE >>> In Harry McDonald’s adaptation of Ali Smith’s novel Autumn, political turmoil gushes like a tempest through an archipelago of very emotive plot lines. It’s 2016. 32-year-old Elisabeth Demand (Rebecca Banatvala), a history of art lecturer...

VENUE: DUKE OF YORK'S THEATRE >>> Following a sell-out run at Bush Theatre, Shifters is relocating from West London to the West End for a nine-week run in the prestigious Duke of York Theatre on St Martin’s Lane. Seeing as Shifters...

VENUE: PLEASANCE COURTYARD, EDINBURGH >>> When I walked past a poster recently of Diana: The Untold and Untrue Story near London’s King’s Head Theatre, little did I know that it is produced by the same team behind undoubtedly one of my favourite shows at Edinburgh Festival Fringe this year. Awkward Productions, comprising...

VENUE: TRAVERSE THEATRE, EDINBURGH >>> The Sound Inside tells the compelling story of Ivy League creative writing professor Bella Baird and rebellious freshman student Christopher.  Baird enters unannounced onto a sparse black stage.  It is misty with dry ice.  The atmosphere is eerie and edgy...