This year sees the biggest ever VAULT Festival, and with over 300 shows to choose from the possibilities are endless.  We've picked five productions worth seeing in Week 3. An Act of Kindness (Until 11th February) Theatre Weekly’s Best of The Fest – New Writing, Edinburgh 2017 Two strangers meet at...

Split Britches present an up-to-the minute topical interactive show which takes unexploded ordnances as a metaphor for the unexplored potential in us all - particularly elders – and tries to uncover it. Legendary performance duo Peggy Shaw and Lois Weaver evoke the Cold War paranoia of Stanley Kubrick’s Dr Strangelove...

Brad Birch’s new play Black Mountain, part of the Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd season at The Orange Tree Theatre, is a taught psychological thriller which grips the audience, and has hearts pounding, before the first word is even spoken. The plot is drip fed to us in clues, Rebecca...

Despite what the Hollywood movies tell us, true lifelong friendships are actually incredibly rare, and usually not without some bumps along the way.  Elinor Cook’s Out of Love, part of the Paines Plough and Theatr Clwyd season at The Orange Tree Theatre, recognises this fact and portrays a long-lasting friendship...

Making theatre for children can be particularly challenging, not least for the amount of energy required to keep young theatre-goers sufficiently entertained throughout the performance.  Even more demanding is when it is an adult cast taking on the roles of infants.  Sarah McDonald-Hughes How To Be A Kid, part of...