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Publications include ELLE UK, The Independent, The Drum, Huffington Post and The Stage.
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Queer Prom is in town, and in the words of founders Vicki Cook and Jules Haydon Guaitamacchi, with it comes the promise of a chance to do it right, do it again, do it Queer AF. For most of us, the opportunity to go back and redo our first prom experience is something that may...
By guest blogger Laura Darrall @lauradarrall The face of the customer contact center is having an injection of AI botox, to elevate it to new realms of efficiency and tailored servic. But, in a world of screens, chatbots and multi-channeled transactions, where does that leave us humans?
With news last week that the New York State Assembly had passed a legislation prohibiting the infamous "tiger-selfie", internet daters throughout Britain and the world were sent into hairball-induced panic about the aesthetic future of their dating profiles.
Seven years in the making, David Aula's production of Ian McEwan's infamously incestual novel 'The Cement Garden', is gloriously inventive, playful and full of heart and hope.
Anxiety and depression affects one in five people, with women being 70% more likely to experience it during their lifetime than men, according to a YouGov survey conducted for Mental Health Awareness Week and The National Institute for Mental Health respectively. Read more about this modern epidemic in the March issue of ELLE, on sale now.
A response to the Protein World advert of 2015. The big question on everyone's lips at the moment is this: is this woman beach body ready? Well, first and foremost, let’s leave the body part until later and tackle the real issue here: is she beach ready? And the answer is plain and simple: absolutely not.
The Christmas Forest is one company that strives to maintain the true meaning of Christmas, an ethically run family business with its heart firmly set in the community, they turn local parks into beautiful, magical forests that families and buyers can wander through (as if in Narnia!)
There is an ancient acting lore that has been passed down over the years (as all good lores are) which tells the tale of the infamous understudy in The Mousetrap. She sat in her dressing room for five years, blissfully reading her newspaper, dabbling in Sudoku, until one fateful night when there was a knock at the door. “You’re on!” boomed the stage manager, his shouts echoing round the St Martin’s Theatre. Falteringly, the understudy rose to her feet, looked at the stage manager and said, “I...
I have never been able to be a cerebral critic, I recognise and appreciate technique and expertise in theatre but for me, as for most, if a show makes me cry with joy or sorrow it is a winner in my book. Lyndsey Turner’s Fathers and Sons at the Donmar Warehouse did both of those things. Never have I witnessed such a fiercely political show, replete with complex manifestos and yet so full of poetry and heart. But then I guess that’s Friel for you.
Interview with George Wigzell for Post Script Journal. Adapted from the award-winning picture book by Shaun Tan, devised theatre company Featherweight present The Red Tree. Following an acclaimed run at the Edinburgh Fringe, PostScript Journal’s Laura Darrall was lucky enough to witness the London debut of their show and have a chat with one of the creators, George Wigzell, about their process.
