Charming, delicate, and deliciously self-mocking this lovingly crafted one man show is an absolute winner. Johnny is a fourteen year old logged onto a chat room as LBJ. There he meets Markymark. A football star a couple of years his senior. Markymark mistakes LBJ to be a girl. Oh the deliciousness of it all. What [...]

Tender is an honest and hard working play on loss and love. A young man and a woman are very much in love, the sort of love that creates lines in the mind, defines the personalities within that love, and everything else as being without. Joyous and serious. Only, the man is gone, missing – [...]

This theatrical comedy of class and love takes delight in making a jumble, in the mess and joy that is people’s lives and loves. A doctor needs her house cleaned – she likes a clean house – only she doesn’t like telling people to clean it. She hires a Brazilian girl, who frustratingly is depressed [...]

You may have heard the phrase absurdist and thought it to describe any number of plays or movies you’ve seen that were just a bit weird. Like the writer had perhaps taken a spot of acid and knocked off a couple of pages whilst on a really bad trip. (Say Bob, I like all that [...]

This tricky piece – tricky because you don’t want to be too heavy handed with the subject material – is a somewhat refreshing attempt to bring some levity to an otherwise taboo topic – being overweight. With Australia no so long since being named the fattest nation in the world (ref The Age) it clearly [...]

Take a simple set-up, a man and a woman are in a facility where they are being treated by a Doctor and a Nurse for unknown concerns. Add a dose of love – the man and the woman fall in love. Then sprinkle with old man cynicism – the love goes sour. And what do [...]

A couple, young and hip, the sort you’d be intensely jealous of were they not so sensuous and sexy (in equal doses) are planning a trip to Stockholm. But before they can get there they must first get past their own neuroses and jealousies. This intense and deeply human two hander is a narration on [...]

This French film from 2007 is despite its subject a celebration of life and living. Adapted from a memoir of the same name, the reality behind the drama gives it a haunting quality that stays with you for some time. The hero of the movie, a journalist, wakes to find himself with locked-in syndrome. This [...]

This funny dark drama shows the joy and horror of drug abuse, framed through the wit and theatrical whimsy of this young and energetic UK theatre troupe. Act One, seduction. In this beautifully theatrical proposition the play asks what happens to a group of young hip disjointed adults when Heroin – in shape of a [...]

Ostensibly for children this adaptation of the Hans Christian Anderson fable is expertly crafted by the people at Theatre Simple. Taking multifarious roles the five actors weave this tale of love and courage, taking us on a young girl’s journey as she attempts to save her close friend from the snow queen. It is a [...]