Press & Awards Nothing - Edinburgh 2014 "A snapshot of a generation who feels that the future has very little to offer them, and who are appalled and fascinated by the violence they encounter in everyday life". ???? Lyn Gardner , The Guardian . Read the review here . "Not since 2010 – Anya Reiss’s Spur of the Moment at the Royal Court, London – has a first-time play felt so certain in both voice and intent". ???? Matt Trueman, Financial Times. Read the review here . "A fiercely confrontational and intelligent piece, with a disarming truthfulness about the way we live today". ???? Time Out . Read the review here . "This is a dizzyingly confident and assured debut, both in terms of content and form, by a company worth watching out for." ???? Natasha Tripney , The Stage . Read the review here . “ Nothing contains some of the best and most sincere young writing and acting going”. ???? James Fennemore, A Younger Theatre . Read the review here . "This is a vital, commendably audacious production. Far from the nihilism its title might imply, Nothing provides a refreshing, heartening hour for even the most jaded...

Chaos: indecipherable columns of cascading numbers; innumerable rushing people, who communicate across the space with equally inexplicable gestures and jargon. It is 2007. The banks and the bankers are gambling, and the world economy is about to come crashing down. In amongst it all is Faustus whose greed outstrips them all, and so he devises a diabolic plan to claim for himself all the riches of the world. This is the premise of Dan Hutton’s bold and ambitious new take on the classic Christopher Marlowe play. It is both a thoroughly modern take on a classic piece of theatre and a broadside at the behaviour that caused the collapse of the markets in the first place. With the effect of such behaviour still wreaking havoc, it is also perfectly timed; but although the parallel between Faustus and the modern investment banker is apt, the production struggled to convincingly meld the concept and the original meaning of the play. Despite this, it is as intelligent and challenging a piece of student theatre as one is likely to see, combining striking design with slick movement sequences to fantastic effect. Indeed, the design is the most innovative part of the show. Lizzie...

About a third of the way through today’s performance of Children of the Sun , the show had to be stopped due to a patron becoming ill. Now obviously, that in itself isn’t a good thing and I wish him a speedy recovery, but the instance added a certain frisson to the remainder of the performance. Until then, it felt like the actors were going through the motions, and to be honest I wasn’t really paying attention. As soon as the stage manager entered, however, a charge became apparent, and after a break the actors returned with a punch. The interruption felt pertinent to the show, which throughout always has the possibility of sudden upheaval moments away. Set in a cavernous-but-decaying house, Maxim Gorky’s play focuses around a group of intellectuals and their self-interest during a time of social change. At the centre is Protasov (Geoffrey Streatfield), an unhappy scientist devoured by his work at the expense of his relationship with his wife Yelena (Justine Mitchell). She looks towards other men while his sister Liza slowly falls into despair. Strip away the context and it’s not much more than a few interwoven love stories between middle-aged people. Except it’s...