top tech and dynamic performances

An intense, poignant, life-affirming play.

Reece Lyons serves up a stellar display

A wartime love story with some laughs but little tension.

Zoe Cooper’s Jess and Joe Forever, premiered in 2016, was my favourite show of the year. An exuberant hit of sweet, sticky romcom, and a nourishing examination of class, gender and rural English life, it fizzed with the joy of potential: both for the lives of its eponymous protagonists and the power of telling their story. Returning to the round of the Orange Tree Theatre, Cooper’s latest, Out of Water, revisits these themes and introduces us to a new trio ...

All elements of this production offer something creative and compelling to a thrilling hour of theatre.

A definite work in progress. A solid idea, but at the moment the show doesn’t give you enough reason to care about what the central character is going through.