Really Real Teenz! is on at the Yard, Hackney Wick, 11-14 March, 7pm. £10.   Really Real Teenz! gouges open narrative linearity and spatiotemporal normativity and throws the audience into a pit of flashing discards. I can think of no other way to explain the blasting extremity of this play. Before anything has happened, while … Continue reading Review of ‘Really Real Teenz!’ at The Yard

  During the after-show questions, writer, director and performer Akpore Uzoh is absolutely unequivocal about why he made this show: frustration. The certainty of his intentions is felt constantly throughout the play, from the achingly painful silences in which he repetitively performs the daily routine of prison life to the poetry recitals that curve into … Continue reading Review of ‘ADITL: A Day in the Life’ at Arcola theatre, 3-6 March.

Review of National Poetry Day: The People Vs. Poetry, at Foyles. 4 October, 7-8.30pm In the strange white cube at the top of Foyles on Charing Cross Road, Will Harris presented the four poets: Craig Raine, Sandeep Parmar, Richard Scott and Victoria Adukwei Bulley. The audience are instructed to participate, not to sit back and … Continue reading Review of ‘The People Vs. Poetry’