Biting Block Theatre’s ​Catching Up at TheatreN16 | Review

Biting Block Theatre’s ​Catching Up at TheatreN16 | Review

ByKaren Pond

Written and performed by 2016 ArtsEd graduates, Emily Schofield and Octavia Gilmore, Catching Up is an emotive, tense, two-handed, one-act play exploring a post-university friendship. The play is the girls’ company, Biting Block Theatre’s first production and following performances at Edinburgh’s PBH Free fringe it has been reworked and developed this year. Becka (Octavia Gilmore)…

Sleepless at Shoreditch Town Hall – Review
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Sleepless at Shoreditch Town Hall – Review

ByKaren Pond

Fatal Familial Insomnia (FFI) is a rare genetic disease which robs you entirely of sleep until you die and it is currently believed to affect under 40 families worldwide. Sleepless is an attempt to tell one of these family’s stories. A pregnant Cosmia Trevisan (Balvinder Sopal) has just waved her archaeologist boyfriend off on a dig on the…