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2016 was a Bitch   2016 was a bitch you said. I’ll say that…   many heavyweight stars died  and observatories harvested full-moons like fruit slung from low branches.   [...]

The Artist – inspired by the story of Hassan Akkad   The Artist sits cross-legged lone in his bedroom fortress avoiding ankles of uncles jibes from aunties’ moustaches.   [...]

Lives of F, Synchronised Swimming, Ed 1. (poem 1) It is an old-fashioned August that melts. The world still turns predictably, slow and smart, public services go to work. Two well intentioned [...]

Lives of F: Young Adult. Ed 1. (poem 4) 1 Frederick, or Frederick-Danvers-Hill, (as he likes to be called), after Great Great Grandfather – the circus-star turned soot-revolution mogul, [...]

I want to speak about grief. Not the grief we feel at the loss of a person or relationship, but the grief we feel for projects, plans and visions of the near and middle future. Loss felt when a [...]

A Very Expensive Poison, The Old Vic – review by Tamsin Flower (Feat’ image by Marc Brenner)   Script by Lucy Prebble Direction by John Crowley   Lucy Prebble’s creative [...]

  Madmen & Madwomen – the sub-plot of Patriarchy in White-Collar Offices.   ‘The overwhelming experience of women in a society dominated by men is that of being silenced.’ [...]

Peter Gynt – National Theatre, Aug’ 19’. Review by Tamsin Flower   Script by David Hare Direction by Jonathan Kent   Everyone loves seducers and sociopaths…in fiction. The [...]

Review of ‘Six’ – Arts Theatre, 16/4/19  Book & lyrics by Toby Marlow & Lucy Moss Direction by Lucy Moss & Jamie Armitage   Henry the Eighth’s six wives appear ‘for one [...]

The Light in the Piazza – review, The Southbank Centre, July 2019 By Tamsin Flower Book by Craig Lucas, Music and Lyrics by Adam Guettel. Italy – romanticised by all, from Shakespeare [...]