Nicola Husband

An Air Balloon Across Antarctica

16 Aug 2007

We all cope differently with grief, however we can probably assume that very few of us are likely to grab a hamster, jump in a hot air balloon and journey across Antarctica in the style of this slightly surreal play’s protagonist. Talking hamsters with…

Fuerzabruta

16 Aug 2007

A man runs frantically on a conveyor belt headlong into unavoidable obstacles; nymph-like beauties writhe, close enough to touch, on water-covered perspex; women somersault across floating tinfoil walls bathed in an aura of multicoloured light as wind…

Red State

16 Aug 2007

In an Arizonian drying-out clinic, a guilt-ridden US army veteran receives some visitors from his past. If you like clear-cut narratives, you’ll be severely disappointed. Asking big questions, like how far someone would go to preserve the image of a…

The Pitch

16 Aug 2007

As audiences desert the theatre in favour of cinema, could this one-man show provide the answer? A screenwriter has an hour to rewrite his script and plan a pitch before presenting to studio executives. Taking on all the roles, from Catherine Zeta-Jones…

Auto Auto

9 Aug 2007

Humans like doing what they know they shouldn’t: smoking, though we know it could kill us; drinking, though it makes us ill; eating the food that’s bad for us (ever got a thrill from eating a lettuce leaf?). But in real life, without running the risk of…

La Femme Est Morte or Why Should I Not Fuck My Son

9 Aug 2007

Britney is in a state of crisis. She split from her husband, shaved her head, drove with her son on her lap and allegedly tried to have his teeth whitened, and of course it’s all the media’s fault, just as they are held responsible for Phaedra’s demise…

Dai (Enough)

9 Aug 2007

As daily reports of suicide bombings in the Middle East flood into our homes, it’s impossible not to be desensitised. Figures substitute names, as personal stories take a backseat in favour of a delivery of the death toll. However, Iris Bahr’s one woman…

Change: The Upcoming War with Iran

9 Aug 2007

Since 2001, under the watchful eye of President Bush, America has been waging its War on Terror, leaving a country in ruin and lots of radical Islamists out for revenge. So did they learn any lessons from Iraq?

Truth in Translation

9 Aug 2007

Can a play really be the solution to conflicts in civil war-torn countries when all else has failed? Director Michael Lessac seems to think so as he takes his play about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission to conflict zones, in an…

A Day in Dig Nation

9 Aug 2007

According to Baudrillard, the apocalypse has already happened through our descent into the hyper-real, our love of convenience and inability to form human relationships, we have destroyed our civilisation, but what if this were only the beginning and…

Famished

9 Aug 2007

In this hammed-up musical, as our heroine awaits the safe return of her lover from some faraway land, singing/dancing zombies hit Victorian London.

Bigger than Jesus

9 Aug 2007

Structured using the catholic liturgy and with more technology than you could shake a crucifix at, Rick Miller takes us on a journey through the beginnings of Christianity. There is a lecture, a sermon, a dramatic interpretation of the crucifixion and a…

Cash In Christ

9 Aug 2007

Leaders of the Sunrise Church, husband and wife team Bob and Fanny Comfort, take us through a sing-along sermon as they try to recruit us into a church where we can get rich in Jesus. Teachings of Sunrise include the need for women to be beautiful, the…

Dye Young/Stay Pretty

9 Aug 2007

Gill (Beth Medley), a pregnant Debbie Harry fan from Dudley, decides that before she can succumb to the responsibilities of motherhood, she must fly to New York and meet her idol.

Night Time

1 Aug 2007

When you think back, you might feel regret for some of the choices you made in your life. Careers are one thing, but choices made about love are perhaps even more significant.

Stonewall

1 Aug 2007

Stonewall, that little corner of New York that created such controversy, is synonymous with the fight for gay equality. ‘The perception is that gay rights have moved forward but it’s not far enough,’ says writer/director Ricki Beadle-Blair who has…

Teenage Kicks

1 Aug 2007

‘If hero worship were sex, they’d all be carrying my babies‚’ said John Peel of punk rockers The Dwarves in a quote that sums up Teenage Kicks writer Paul Hodson’s personal attitude towards the enigmatic Radio 1 DJ.

The Bitches' Ball

Festival Fringe

1 Aug 2007

History is usually served with complimentary rose tinted glasses allowing us to wipe out events we don’t wish to remember. It can do the same to people and it’s these individuals that Penny Dreadful are trying to make sure we can’t erase.

Cash in Christ

1 Aug 2007

Prominent US evangelist Oral Roberts announced to a television audience that, unless he raised $8 million by a given date, God would kill him. Viewers duly donated $9.1 million, and just a few months ago, Brazilian husband and wife televangelist team…

Debbie Does Dallas

1 Aug 2007

Turning films into musicals is nothing new, but not too many classic 70s porn flicks have undergone the same transition.

Asylum Monologues

18 Jun 2007

REHEARSED READING Did you know that fish and chips were first introduced into the UK by Jewish immigrants in the 19th century? Or that the UK receives less than 0.5% of the world’s refugee population? Probably not, thinks Christine Bacon…

Home Hinderance

8 May 2007

NEW WORK In our current state of hyper reality the boundaries between the real and fiction have lost their clarity. We have an obsession with reality made fiction and problems differentiating between the two, issues addressed by David Leddy in his…

Yellow Moon

Citizens’ Theatre, Glasgow, until Sat 14 Oct

2 Oct 2006

NEW WORK We live in a world of constructed realities. So-called reality TV shows flood our screens promising an insight into everyday life, airbrushed ‘beauties’ gaze at us from the pages of glossy magazines. Swamped by the media, society loses sight…