Clementine Scott
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Review: WHAT THE ANIMALS SAY, Finborough Theatre
It starts in the claustrophobic, liminal space of a ferry terminal, and both parties don’t really want to be there.
Review: HAM, Soho Theatre
Feminist theatre duo Hotter Project don’t want you to take their veganism-themed riff on Hamlet too seriously.
Review: JERKER, Waterloo East
An early tableau in Robert Chesley’s 1986 play Jerker involves a character masturbating to a generic message on his answering machine.
Review: TRU, Starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Menier Chocolate Factory
In 1975, Breakfast at Tiffany’s author Truman Capote became a social pariah overnight, after his public betrayal of the group of New York socialites known as the “Swans”.
Review: TABLE 17, Starring Marisha Wallace, Kiln Theatre
Before Table 17 begins, a voice over the tannoy announces that audience interaction is encouraged, “like in panto”.
Review: NIGHT CITY, Southwark Playhouse, Borough
At first glance, Night City appears like your classic boy meets girl – specifically, rideshare driver meets waitress, and takes her to see the dinosaurs at Crystal Palace in the morning light.
Review: THE CHILDREN, Starring Meera Syal
The climate crisis abuses us of the notion that we’re invincible, and ultimately forces us to reckon with exactly how much time we have left on Earth.
Review: JANE EYRE, Southwark Playhouse, Elephant
With the Wuthering Heights film adaptation this February, critics everywhere saw how easy it is to strip the Brontë sisters’ particular brand of Gothic novel down to its bare essentials, and lose everything of substance along the way.
Review: THE STORY, Starring Lorraine Toussaint and Letitia Wright
In an unintentionally timely piece of programming, The Story opens at the National a month or so after Jason Arday’s death.
Review: ELECTRA/PERSONA, Starring Cate Blanchett and Nina Hoss
In Ingmar Bergman’s 1966 Modernist classic Persona, an actress named Elisabeth breaks down mid-performance, becomes mute, and goes on to develop a strange codependent relationship with her nurse, Alma.
Review: WANTON, Southwark Playhouse
Much like Georgie Dettmer’s blockbuster debut play Are You Watching?, her sophomore effort Wanton begins and ends with childhood, and the messages women receive from a distressingly early age.
Review: AS YOU LIKE IT, Shakespeare's Globe
Sean Holmes at the Globe has been characterised as something of a purist, his A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Much Ado attracting praise for their Elizabethan costumes and rowdy atmosphere.
EDINBURGH 2026: Review: A QUEER LITTLE MURDER, Gilded Balloon Patter House
US comic Savannah Hankinson loves murder mysteries.
EDINBURGH 2026: Review: ELF LYONS IS THE WOMAN ON THE EDGE, Beyond At Pleasance Courtyard
The Fringe is full of women on the edge, but none quite like Elf Lyons.
EDINBURGH 2026: Review: JESS FUCHS: FERAL, Bunker Two At Pleasance Courtyard
From the Zara Larsson tunes blasting as we walk in, and Jess Fuchs emerging in thigh-highs and a cloud of black tulle, it’s clear the Australian comic is intent on taking Edinburgh crowds on the best girls’ night out of their lives.
EDINBURGH 2026: Review: ROCKPOOLS, Bunker Three, Pleasance Courtyard
Unless one happens to have read the programme notes beforehand, it’s not immediately obvious that Rockpools is a play about endometriosis.
EDINBURGH 2026: Review: ED GAUGHAN: THE EMPEROR, Just The Tonic At The Caves
Ed Gaughan is extremely good at accents.
EDINBURGH 2026: Review: CHIP AND GUS: A COMEDY WITH BALLS, Venue 45 at TheSpace
Earlier this year, Marty Supreme made a case for ping pong as a metaphor for life’s constant ebbs and flows, and an outlet for a particular type of obsessive striver.
EDINBURGH 2026: Review: LEGENDARY, Friesian At Underbelly, Bristo Square
“I’ve been thinking about my childhood” is how the Singaporean performer Cheeyang Ng begins Legendary, a show preoccupied with the idea of childhood, and particularly with queer Asian childhood.
Review: GAME OF THRONES: THE MAD KING, Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford Upon Avon
With some reluctance, longtime fans of Game of Thrones have acknowledged that the novel series that inspired the era-defining HBO fantasy show – George RR Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire – will likely never be finished, and the franchise will be chiefly remembered for its disappointing TV endi
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