Saboteur Awards Festival 2022: The shortlists!
At Sabotage Reviews HQ we’ve been buried underneath votes for the last week or so. It’s been a delight, as
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Saboteur Awards 2021: Shortlists!
It’s been a week of counting up the shortlists! Once again, it’s an absolute delight to see the excitement and
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Sphere (Are We Where We Are?, Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 8 Nov 2018)
reviewed by Stella Backhouse According to Roland Barthes (in a quote I can’t seem to locate, but it sounds like
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Are We Where We Are #7/8, (Stephanie Ridings and Cristina Catalina, Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 11 October 2018)
review by Stella Backhouse According to a recent survey by pollsters ORB International, “people are disgruntled with the protracted Brexit
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Rear View (IOU Theatre, Festival of Imagineers, Coventry, 21 September 2018)
review by Stella Backhouse Alarm bells started ringing when Cecilia Knapp unexpectedly began to speak. “I am sixty-five years old,”
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Past Time, (Rideout and inmates of HMP Hewell, Redditch, 19 July 2018)
reviewed by Stella Backhouse I could, I suppose, belabour this review with navel-gazing observations about how we are all prisoners
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I’d Be Lost Without It (Wet Picnic, Shop Front Festival, Coventry, 23 March 2018)
review by Stella Backhouse Before physical theatre company Wet Picnic began performing I’d be Lost Without It as part of
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Yellowstone by Chris Thorpe (Are We Where We Are? Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 25 Jan 2018)
reviewed by Stella Backhouse A few years ago, we discovered tipping point. Or at least, concerned media types in search
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Under the Carpet by Sarah Woods (Are We Where We Are? Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 16 Nov 2017)
reviewed by Stella Backhouse With the Festive Season fast approaching, writer/performer Sarah Woods’ new monologue Under the Carpet, and premièred
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Where I Live and What I Live For by Rabiah Hussain (Are We Where We Are? Shop Front Theatre, Coventry, 10 October 2017)
reviewed by Stella Backhouse Presented as the third instalment of Theatre Absolute Coventry’s Are We Where We Are series, Rabiah
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