Review
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Home, I’m Darling at Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds
Review originally published in The Stage on 28 March 2022
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Short Fiction: “Craig”
(Published in MoonPark Review, Winter 2020/2021) Afterwards you have these fantasies of him tracking you down and finding you. Opening your front door, and he’s standing there. And you think about what…
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The Wind in the Willows by the Figs in Wigs at Cambridge Junction
(Originally published in The Stage on 16 December 2019) Performance collective Figs in Wigs applies its distinctive style of joyous, high-concept whimsy to the pantomime format in a fantastically imagined and enjoyable production of The…
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The Birth of Superdrama
(Originally published in American Theatre magazine on 29 January 2019 under the title ‘It’s Noh, It’s Viewpoints – It’s Superdrama’.) “It is not the object of art to make life comfortable for the fat bourgeois so…
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Serendipity Story #4: Before You Are a Butterfly, You Have to Be a Chrysalis
6 March 2018. So, where was I? My home, job and relationship had vanished overnight on 5 August 2016. After placing everything I owned into storage, at first I dragged myself and…
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Serendipity Story #3: A Joke
6 December 2017… During my stay in Branscombe, Devon in August 2016, serendipity delivered the idea for how my life might shape up as a wandering pilgrim. I had secured a four-month…
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Serendipity Story #2: The List of Dreams
10 October 2017… It was early August 2016, a few days after I put all my worldly possessions in a storage unit at Cambridge’s Newmarket Road industrial estate and watched the Frenchman…
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Serendipity Story #1: The Sign of the Pilgrim
(Originally published on 31 Oct 2017) When I visited St-Jean-Pied-de-Port, France, in July 2016, I didn’t know that I was visiting as a pilgrim-to-be. My tall, wild French boyfriend drove me there…
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Hammerhead by Joseph Morpurgo (A Fan Letter)
13 August 2017. A part of me would like to structure my review of Hammerhead by Joseph Morpurgo as a fan letter to him, such are the grateful, admiring and affectionate feelings fluttering…
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Edinburgh Fringe Festival: Wild Bore (Oh My God, Look At Her Butt)
Originally published in Exeunt Magazine on 20 August 2017. Wild Bore, the new show created and performed by Zoë Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott, is creating a bit of a stir…
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