Sandra Giorgetti

4 days ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

"Everyone is nice on top and rough underneath," says geography teacher Terry to the recently arrived Adrianne collectively unmasking the people who unconventionally frequent her sister's home. The actual unveiling doesn’t happen quickly in this meandering, seldom seen play set firmly in the late 1970s (when it was written) by award-winning working-class writer David Storey, who has since become dubbed "the Chekhov of the North". But it's not just Chekhovian bells that ring.

1 week ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

After a brief airing at King’s Head Theatre earlier this year, Keelan Kember ’s latest play, Thanks for Having Me, is getting a longer run in a bigger production in the main house at Riverside Studios, and it is easy to see why. It is a very funny sitcom, with the fast-paced dialogue delivered by four intelligent, articulate and unarguably good-looking late twenty-year olds as they each negotiate a passage through the choppy waters of contemporary dating without hitting an iceberg.

2 weeks ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

Puppy, now showing at King’s Head Theatre presented by champions of new LGBTQ+ writing Relish Theatre, started off life as a ten-minute short. Now running at 80 minutes and characterised as an outrageous comedy about queerness, feminist porn, protest, the patriarchy and Nick Clegg, it sits uncomfortably as an overstuffed porn industry critique-romcom-political history hybrid.

3 weeks ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon is by any standards a stonkingly successful debut having had a West End run, a book adaptation and now soon to be on television screens, so it is inevitable that the première of Rosie Day's new play was bound to be met with some expectation. (This Is Not A) Happy Room finds Laura, Simon and Elle gather in an off-season Blackpool hotel with a sense of déjà vu for their father's third wedding.

1 month ago | britishtheatreguide.info | Sandra Giorgetti

Great Expectation's creepily tragic Miss Havisham has become an iconic figure. Portrayed in film and television (always it seems by stars secure in their beauty), her name has become a shortcut to express ugly monstrousness, a ghoulish carapace enclosing a sinister breeding ground for cruel and premeditated avengement. So strong are those images of a woman with matted hair and cobwebbed clothes for whom time has stopped that it is easy to accept her character without enquiry. She just is.