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Simon Parsons
IMPASSIONED: Phoebe Thomas and Matt Whitchurch / Pic: Ellie Kurttz
Theatre review / 25 May 2025
Novel take on climate change
25 May 2025

SIMON PARSONS is taken by a thought provoking and intelligent play performed with great sensitivity

Terrors
Theatre review / 16 May 2025
Night terrors
16 May 2025

SIMON PARSONS is gripped by a psychological thriller that questions the the power of the state over vulnerable individuals

CLASS AND SEXUALITY: Sesley Hope and Synnove Karlsen in Laura Lomas’s The House Party / Pic: Ikin Yum
Theatre Review / 24 April 2025
Stunning Strindberg update
24 April 2025

SIMON PARSONS applauds an imaginative and absorbing updating of Strindberg’s classic

Lizzie Watts and Andre Squire in Jane Upton’s (the) Woman
Theatre review / 19 February 2025
No woman no cry
19 February 2025
SIMON PARSONS is discomfited by an unflichingly negative portrait of motherhood and its trials
IT'S BEHIND YOU: The cast of A Good House, Amy Jeptha's Sout
Theatre review / 18 February 2025
Neighbourhood black watch
18 February 2025
SIMON PARSONS applauds an insightful state-of-the-nation play that explores the growing class divide in South Africa
Hiba Medina as Antiya in Antigone (On Strike) 
Theatre Review / 4 February 2025
If Shamima Begum had a sister
4 February 2025
SIMON PARSONS applauds a tense and thoughtful production that regularly challenges our political engagement and prejudices
(L to R) Cat McKeever as Olivia's Attendant, Daniel Millar a
Theatre Review / 13 December 2024
Winter gloom
13 December 2024
SIMON PARSONS questions whether a dark take on Shakespeare’s Seasonal comedy is in harmony with the original text
Ross Tomlinson as Smash and Waj Ali as Valdez in The Unseen
Theatre review / 22 November 2024
Strategies of resistance
22 November 2024
SIMON PARSONS applauds the psychological study of prisoners dealing with a frighteningly oppressive world endured by far too many
Diyar Bozkur, Safiyya Ingar and Meera Syal in King Troll
Theatre review / 9 October 2024
Surrealistic take on plight of migrants
9 October 2024
Using magic realism to highlight the problems of migrants does not sit easily with the harsh reality, says SIMON PARSONS 
Miles Molan, Rosie Day and Tok Stephen in When It Happens to
Theatre review / 7 August 2024
The after effects of rape
7 August 2024
SIMON PARSONS salutes drama that registers how the impact of the sexual assault ripples out through every element of a family’s existence
Chiten perform their adaptation of Osamu Dazai's Good Bye
Theatre Review / 6 March 2024
Suicidal head-bashing
6 March 2024
SIMON PARSONS is dazed by the unremitting discordance of an immersive rendition of the work of Japanese author Osamu Dazai
URGENT: Chris Thorpe in A Family Business
Theatre review / 13 February 2024
90 seconds to midnight
13 February 2024
SIMON PARSONS applauds an informative show that reminds us of the need to keep the threat of nuclear destruction, accidental or intentional, in the headlines