Incognito Theatre’s style is to blend segments of more conventional dialogue with movement and it is the latter which impress Incognito Theatre Company – Tobacco Road. Photo: Tim Hall Photography If you’ve watched Peaky Blinders then with Incognito Theatre's Tobacco Road you’ll be on familiar territory. The real-life, Birmingham-based gang whose world is depicted in…

1. OMG, there are venues everywhere. Everywhere. And posters for shows. 2. People queueing to get into the venues are lovely and chatty; great camaraderie, sharing recommendations and tips. 3. The actors say a few words at the end of a play and often will big up each others' plays. 4. The venues can get…

If the interaction between Conor and the Monster is wrong it could damage the integrity of the story, diminish its impact. Reviews can be hard to write for many reasons. Sometimes you might struggle to find the right words or worry about not doing justice to something you thought was really good. But this review…

In more than a decade of blogging about theatre, I've never been to the Edinburgh Fringe but that is changing this year. I'm going with the Network of Independent Critics for a week and I'm stupidly excited and slightly overwhelmed already – all tactical and survival advice gratefully received. My main focus for the festival…

This is in many ways a polished production but with most of the action set away from the battle fields it does start to feel like you are a spectator at a very long chess game. According to chat in the toilet queue, when Boris Johnson came to see Imperium he commented to a member…

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie is a production, like its central character, that bewitches An austere head in a sensible grey skirt suit is talking to a group of schoolgirls in shapeless grey uniforms and then in swoops a coiffured, red-lipstick, tailored red-dress wearing woman. Just the way she moves and holds herself oozes…

The Bunker Breaking Out festival is on which means the chance to see a selection of new work from up and theatre companies. Saw a double bill last night of Libby's Eyes by Poke In the Eye Productions and Alex Woods' Nine Foot Nine. What were they like? LIBBY'S EYES Amy Bethan Evans' play explores…

Dust is rooted in personal experience, what made you want to write about it? I think it all stems from a lack of communication. It was something I really struggled to talk about with friends, family and loved ones, so it came from a burst of panic, rage and confusion that I’d sat on for years…

If you enjoyed The Truth last year, (it made my 'Best Of list') then you'll enjoy The Lie. It's a similar set up with two couples who are friends. Alice (Samantha Bond) and her husband Paul (Alexander Hanson) are hosting a dinner party for Michel (Tony Gardner) and Laurence (Alexandra Gilbreath) but prior to the…

Swedish playwright and poet August Strindberg (Jasper Britton) has locked himself away in a hotel room in Paris, turning his back on his writing career to become an alchemist and find philosopher's stone. His work is disturbed first by a cleaning lady (Laura Morgan) and then his two wives Siri (Susannah Harker) and Frieda (Gala…