23+ hour, 45+ min ago   (252+ words) Instructed by Aphrodite to choose a husband, Grecian beauty Helen chooses Menelaus, but is then kidnapped by Paris, Prince of Troy, and taken to Troy. Menelaus’ brother Odysseus launches a thousand ships to bring Helen back, their siege ending with…...

1+ day, 5+ min ago   (270+ words) Black Russian: A Real Black Mormon Missionary in Moscow is a solo biographical performance from Dr. Michael Morris who was, as the title of the show suggests, a black young missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints…...

1+ day, 23+ hour ago   (820+ words) Hannah Lavery’s latest book of poetry Everything Everyday: A Year of Empty Promises marries global politics with the intensely personal to create a collection for our times. SNACK caught up with the former Edinburgh Makar ahead of an appearance at…...

2+ day, 11+ min ago   (911+ words) Published in 2020, Andrew O’Hagan’s Mayflies was an immediate sensation. The book charts the story of Tully and his friends, from Ayrshire, who escape the industrial destruction of Thatcherism in the 80s via Factory Records Festival of the Tenth Summer, at Manchester’s…...

1+ day, 22+ hour ago   (570+ words) Could you tell me about your play? The play carries with it a lot of reflections on identity, race, empire, Englishness, borders, passports, and identity. What was your inspiration for writing the play? I found when I came to write…...

2+ day, 44+ min ago   (749+ words) ‘I’m a character comedian and clown,’ Sami Abu Wardeh tells me, as we sit in the shadow of the City Cafe’s fittingly enigmatic Elvis statue. We’re catching up in the diner a few hours ahead of a work-in-progress performance that…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (350+ words) Atomic Tales tells the heart-rending story of Lyudmila, wife of one of the Pripyat firefighters who attended the fire in the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in 1986. Based on the Prayer for Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich, a collection of interviews from…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (179+ words) It’s an incredibly skilful piece of work that combines theatre and visual arts seamlessly. The creators (Mochinosha/Book of Shadowz) bring this gripping story and fascinating world to life with the use of over 500 puppets. From an audience standpoint, it…...

2+ day, 20+ hour ago   (190+ words) Malinowski’s show is snappy and hilarious. It easily won the audience laughs, but it is also another necessary story of how women relate to each other, and the anxiety that (mostly) comes from all the different ways society tells them…...

2+ day, 22+ hour ago   (152+ words) But Phillips-Horst, who really does work as a freelance marketer when not performing, quickly replaces this caricature with an intriguing, heartfelt character that draws more creatively from Phillips-Horst’s own present-day experiences. Much of the show’s satire derives from the competing…...