Scarlett White

We’ve all been there. You’re reading a book or watching a play, and there’s that one character you’re supposed to despise with a passion and hate forever, because of their general wickedness and air of corruption. But as you’re watching or reading…a strange and hitherto unknown feeling spreads through...

It is certainly an accomplishment when a cast of two is able to hold an audience’s attention for almost two hours. Despite a slow start with miming, that slightly dragged and wasn’t necessarily essential in setting the scene, from the first duologue the chemistry between the characters was apparent....

Perhaps the first year English ‘Drama, Theatre and Performance’ module has set my standards too high, but what Let’s Just Pretend had on offer left me slightly disappointed. Whilst a homely set is well created, it is difficult to see why a tree stems from the middle of a...

Tonight, Nottingham New Theatre invites its audience to intrude upon the household of ordinary couple Helen and Danny, as they celebrate the news that Helen is pregnant with their second child. However, when Helen’s brother Liam interrupts their quiet night by coming home covered in blood, the couple must...

It has taken nearly nineteen years to get me into ballet, but Tchaikovsky’s Swan Lake managed it in a mere three hours. Performed for more than 135 years, it is still the world’s favourite ballet, and it’s not difficult to see why. If you, like my former self, see...

The Adventures of Anne Marie de Bourbon – an existentialist ‘puppet drama’ showing as part of the New Theatre’s Fringe season – stubbornly resists classification. An absurdist comedy, pantomime, musical, pirate story and even a lecture, the writer of this theatrical pick-and-mix (Chris Trueman) has found the perfect platform...

Set in a backstreet American diner, What’s Cooking? is certainly no second-rate performance. As part of the Fringe season at Nottingham New Theatre, the production is entirely student-run and relatively low budget; but this does not stop writer and director Gary Berezin and his team from delivering a stellar...