What the hell is a poetry slam? What should I expect if I go to one? How does it work? Why should I go to one? Am I good enough to perform? I share my first poetry slam experience with Hammer & Tongue, and answer some of your questions about what a poetry slam really involves.
We are thrown into the hot and heady streets of present-day New Orleans; you can practically smell the hot roads, sweat, and testosterone as you are swept through the summer months by a fiercely talented cast as the story unfolds, like clothes peeled from skin, exposing vulnerability and naked flesh.
What should you expect from your first opera experience? Sex, comedy and opulence, apparently! I review Mozart's Don Giovanni at the Mayflower Theatre, and dispel some myths about this classic style of theatre.
Ice Cream for Breakfast should be read when most needed, and in delicious, bite-sized chunks – just as you would with your favourite tub of Ben and Jerry's.
Heading back to my childhood home never fails to make me feel better; so I wrote a poem about it.
A Blitz-bruised London becomes a playground for the rebellious and fierce in Teddy – the latest musical to grace the stage at Nuffield Southampton Theatre's Campus venue.
Miss Saigon takes Southampton by storm on its UK tour, bringing the tragedy of the Vietnam War to life on stage in a tale of love and loss.
"I spent my first ever evening at NST City enchanted, transfixed and swept up in a story and a legacy that will stay with me for an incredibly long time.
It's pantomime season! On no it isn't...oh yes it is! I got into the festive spirit at the Mayflower Theatre for this year's panto, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Was it a fairy tale, or did it fall...short?
Imagine watching a spectacular London show from outside the capital, ten minutes from the office, with wine in hand and cheaper ticket prices; that's what National Theatre Live screenings are all about. Find out what happened when I watched Follies at The Point in Eastleigh.
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