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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Festival
The Fall of Byron Montrose. Poet. Gentleman. Lover (Upstairs at the Western, Leicester, 23 February 2018)
reviewed by Sally Jack After the recent UK Pun Championships, Leicester’s long-running comedy festival features another dip into wordplay, this
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UK Pun Championships 2018 (Leicester Comedy Festival, De Montfort Hall, Leicester, 12 Feb 2018)
reviewed by Sally Jack After puns galore on the trending #UKPunDay, it seems we all have a pun up our
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Paradigm Rhymes – Beyond the Dome (by Mellow Baku, Inside Out Festival, Curve Theatre, 21 Oct 2017)
reviewed by Sally Jack Curve Theatre’s Inside Out Festival celebrates “leading and emerging East Midlands artists”, showcasing writers, theatre makers
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Poet in Da Corner (by Debris Stevenson, Inside Out Festival, Curve Theatre, Leicester, 20 Oct 2017)
reviewed by Sally Jack Now in its fourth year, Curve Theatre’s Inside Out Festival celebrates “leading and emerging East Midlands
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Verve Poetry Festival, 16-19th February 2017
-Reviewed by Nina Lewis– I love poetry festivals, this new one promised a marked difference. One of the leading principles of
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McGregor Poetry (Festival): Voices on Fire 26-28th August 2016
-Reviewed by Claire Trévien– This isn’t going to be much of a review. I don’t think someone running three events
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Raving Beauties (Literary Leicester festival, Attenborough Arts Centre, 10 Nov 15)
-reviewed by Sally Jack– What with body image and the tampon tax, women’s bodies are still ‘up there’ as far
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The Venus Papers (launch at Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester, 29 Sept 2015)
-Reviewed by Sally Jack– Poems by Lydia Towsey Paintings by Scott Bridgwood Music by David Dhonau Event also part of Everybody’s
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The 90 Sick EP by Paul Cree (The Roundhouse Last Word Festival, 30/05/15)
-Reviewed by Lettie McKie- ‘Shall we slack it off?’ whispers Paul Cree to his musical collaborator Elian Gray in an
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