Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Literary Festival
It’s the first year that the Saboteur Awards Festival has been able to include a literary festival category, and we’re
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Reviewer of Literature
An important part of the independent literature scene are the reviewers who help to shine a light on brilliant publications,
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Saboteur Awards 2019 Category Spotlight: Best Novella
We have a wonderful selection of novellas that have been shortlisted for this year’s Saboteur Awards Festival. You can cast
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Funkenteleky Verve Special (The Old Rep, Birmingham, 17 Feb 2019)
Reviewed by Jonah Corren ‘Funken.. what? Funkenwha? Is it a typo? Funfksjsdksrd?! Seriously? That’s not a word. Funke..Fun…ke? Funkenteleky!’ On
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Saboteur Awards Festival 2019 – Programme details!
After a week of counting votes and sending emails, we’ve finally been able to turn our attention from shortlists to
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Hit the Ode x UniSlam Party (The Patrick Studio, Birmingham Hippodrome, 1 Feb 2019)
reviewed by Hannah Ledlie Hit the Ode was launched a decade ago in The Victoria, a popular pub in Birmingham city
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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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The Sleeping Princess by Hel Robin Gurney
– reviewed by Amy Russell at Manchester Fringe – What is it? A tale of Red Hoods and Glass
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