Leaves you feeling Peaky: Natasha Tripney dissects Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s misjudged Dickens adaptation for the BBC.
Natasha Tripney

Articles by Natasha Tripney
30 September 2019
Features
Belgrade International Theatre Festival: Let’s Start Over
By Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney finds destruction, renewal, and numbing violence at Belgrade’s festival of avant garde theatre from across Europe.
10 June 2019
Features
An Obsession Is Born
By Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney marks the launch of the 2019 Edinburgh fringe programme with a poem, crafted from its cut up and reassembled entrails.
28 August 2018
Features • Edinburgh Fringe 2018
A Decade of Fringes
By Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney writes on the time-bending, memory-layering properties of returning to Edinburgh for the festival fringe, year after year.
14 June 2018
Features
Into the Unknown
By Natasha Tripney
In an annual Exeunt tradition, Natasha Tripney condenses the contents of the entire 2018 Edinburgh Fringe programme into a single poem.
12 June 2017
Features
Fringe Programme Poetry
By Natasha Tripney
“Who is torturing whom?” Natasha Tripney crafts a cut-up poem from the fever dream that is the 2017 Edinburgh Fringe programme.
30 May 2017
Reviews • Reviews
Review: Don Juan at Jugoslovensko Dramsko Pozoriste, Belgrade
Until 26 June 2017
By Natasha Tripney
“Appealing pyromaniac tendencies” – Natasha Tripney reviews Gorčin Stojanović’s production of Don Juan.
27 March 2017
Reviews • Reviews
Review: A Man Who Watched the World at the Mladinsko theatre, Ljubljana
Mladinsko theatre ⋄
By Natasha Tripney
The snickety-snick of the sewing machine: Natasha Tripney reviews Žiga Divjak’s bleak but impressive production at the Mladinsko theatre.
28 June 2016
Reviews • Reviews
Review: The Extra People at Malta Festival, Poznan
Malta Festival ⋄ 26th - 27th June 2016
By Natasha Tripney
The watchers and the watched: Natasha Tripney reviews Ant Hampton’s work presented as part of Malta Festival.
13 June 2016
Features
Edinburgh Fringe Programme Poetry
By Natasha Tripney
Don’t be fooled by gimp owl: the Edinburgh Fringe has a sensitive side. Natasha Tripney offers a cut-up poem plucked from the pages of the Edinburgh Fringe Programme.
5 January 2016
Features
Sherlock: The Abominable Bride
By Natasha Tripney
Natasha Tripney on fan-service, feminism and the Sherlock Christmas special
6 December 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Around The World in 80 Days
St James Theatre ⋄ 26th November 2015 - 17th January 2016
By Natasha Tripney
Jules Verne and the shrinking world.
2 December 2015
Features
Pantomime: The Purest Form of Theatre
By Natasha Tripney
Jon Bradfield discusses representation, rude songs, and the validity of pantomime as an artform.
1 December 2015
Features
Waking The Feminists: “We’ve a long road ahead of us.”
By Natasha Tripney
Fiona Doyle on the situation still faced by female playwrights in Ireland and how gender inequality within Irish Theatre is symptomatic of something much deeper.
15 November 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Sparks
Old Red Lion ⋄ 10th November - 5th December 2015
By Natasha Tripney
Sisterland.