Anna Stephen

'The audience of Kian Moghaddas’ A Poet and a Scholar was in hysterics pretty much the entire way through.'

"Charged with hope and joy, aching with romantic wisdom, [McVie's songs] are the songs of a woman who has lived and loved."

"The dialogue is simultaneously so realistic and so weird and the characters and themes felt like they would really ring true to a student audience."

"[...] they descend into paranoia, and carnage unfolds in a network of marvellously-layered backstabbing."

'Overall, I very much enjoyed Please Clap. Experimental, and at the same time digging into the solemn secrets of celebrity and humanity, the fakery of the media and the forgery of façades, this was a show to be applauded.'

While actors profit from an ability to be malleable, it is often the case that they are stuck playing the roles they are ‘right...

'I wanted you, all the more because I knew / Someone else was getting you. / What does that mean now?'

"Rain cracks its whip Against the windows. The wielder: autumn. From the cottage in the cleft of the foothills You can see a flickering light, just out of sight And it stains the blackest night."

The government is considering a two-week lockdown for universities in England from 8th-22nd December, it has been reported. Boris Johnson has vowed to “get students home for...