Pompeii has always held a kind of spell over me. I loved studying  it in my Ancient History class back in high school (which, amusingly, is starting to feel like ancient history itself!). From that moment, I longed to walk those streets, to see the remnants of a city frozen in…

‘ What the f*** are we going to do about all the men?” asks writer and performer Olly Hawes in Old Fat F**k Up, now running at Riverside Studios. It’s a question that sets the tone for a piece that is part-autobiographical, part dark comedy, and concerned with toxic masculinity…

Science and spectacle collide in L’Indiscipline, a dark comedy that makes its English-language premiere at London’s Voila! Theatre Festival.  Written by Michal Vojtech, Pierre Albert Ollivier, and Ariel de la Garza, and performed by Threepenny Collective’s ensemble of fresh voices, the play arrives in London fresh from its world debut…

If you’ve ever felt like your body was a battleground, Caridad Gómez has a corrido for you. Her one-woman show, #FATKARY: The Corrido of a Tragic Ex-Fat Woman, landed The Playground Theatre tonight as part of London’s Voila! Theatre Festival.  I hadn’t heard the term corrido before, and learned it…