Eric Crouch

Nottingham New Theatre’s latest comedy We’re Here for Laura, a comedy about four horrible friends, written by Luwa Adebanjo and Kellyn Morrissey, and directed by Florence Avis, was a surprisingly light-hearted, entertaining exploration into the human inability to change. “It seemed like a caricature-esque Breakfast Club, a conclusion which...

Daniel Morris’ Deliria is a heart wrenching tale of familial bonds, shrouded in the complexities of illness and survival amidst the dark urban future setting. “I entered rather apprehensive with only the knowledge of the vague plot brief” One always enters an unknown play with caution. The poster (by...

The student-led theatre production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, written by Martin McDonagh, was phenomenal. The performance presented the disturbing and psychologically baffling relationship between the manipulative 70-year-old Mag (Emma Pallett) and her mentally unstable daughter Maureen (Esther Townsend). The set (designed by Tom Proffitt) remains consistent throughout...

Eccentric, random and unusually funny, Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency tells the story of private investigator Dirk Gently who re-friends past university student, Richard MacDuff, to help solve the death of Richard’s magazine-owning boss, Gordon Way (Callum Walker). Written by James Goss and Arvind Ethan David, Dirk Gently’s Holistic...

A play which involves lies being built upon secrets in varying relationships, A Doll’s House accumulates to a moral revelation in which the leading actor transforms from a character comparable to a human doll to one that is cosmopolitan.    The play tells the story of Nora, a woman...