★★★★★ To hold an audience spellbound throughout a sixty-minute, one-woman show is no mean feat. Actor Sarel Madziya does just that in this deeply affecting story of a seventeen-year-old girl caught in the English care system

★★★★☆ The story doesn’t pull any punches. The cast told us that they’re taking the production to the Houses of Parliament – and I certainly wouldn’t like to be Michael Gove watching this! The play uses evidence from interviews, public documents, and transcripts of hearings to present a scathing critique of modern British society.

★★★★☆ This is a play about mental health and depression; it’s about dysfunctional families, and death, and love. Philip Osment has written a short drama that encapsulates how difficult it can sometimes be just to exist, and how sometimes all it takes is offering someone a little hope.

★★★★☆ The play centres round a long-running rape trial in 1612 Rome. Painter Agostino Tassi is accused of the rape of a young woman, Artemisia Gentileschi. He is a friend of her father and her sometime art tutor, and is greatly respected in the city, frequently commissioned to paint for the Pope . . .

★★★★☆ The play is set in Jamaica, focussing on three women, Local, Regular, and Novice. Local, played by Sharla Smith, is a native islander, eking out a living in the country’s tourist trade; Gracy Goldman is Regular – a wealthy, old (not so old) white woman who visits Jamaica every year; and Rachel Summers plays Novice, a young white woman who has saved hard to be able to afford her first trip to the Caribbean.