Jack Condon on If. Destroyed. Still. True

this script works to great effect

honesty and warmth

Perceptive and thought-provoking

Cooking for Christmas will never feel the same.

A masterpiece of inventiveness where a visionary comic style is complemented by an out of the box design.

Pros: Two fantastically observed, tender and thought-provoking monologues. Cons: The lighting in such a confined space was occasionally directly in the faces of the audience. Odd Man Out is a double bill of shows on the theme of….the odd man out and we were certainly presented with characters out of place and awkward in the world. Other than this there was little similarity between the two pieces, other than the characters’ love of literature. That’s not a criticism; I enjoyed the juxtaposition and ...

Anna Marsland and David Fairs of Golem! Theatre talk putting a new twist on a Shakespearean classic in 'I Know You Of Old'.

Pros: Samuel Lawrence’s powerful and committed approach to an intense character. Cons: The play maintains an exaggerated level of tension which prevents the audience from truly relating to the characters, and makes for quite uncomfortable viewing. I’m all for a good love story. Especially if it’s tricky and passionate and full of drama. Threads is the story of Vic (Katharine Davenport) and Charlie (Samuel Lawrence), two exes reunited in the flat that they used to share. Over the course of an ...

'Kicked in the Sh*tter' playwright Leon Fleming talks with us about crowdfunding, regional theatre and being inspired by the unsavoury.