Poignant depths and comedic shallows: Joy Martin reviews two aquatic tales of loneliness and longing.
Joy Martin
Articles by Joy Martin
20 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Wild Bore at Traverse Theatre
By Joy Martin
Talking out your ass: Joy Martin on a critic-baiting performance by Zoë Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott.
18 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Frankie Vah by Luke Wright at Underbelly
Until 27th August
By Joy Martin
‘Lushly, transportingly poetic…’ Joy Martin has her heart broken at Luke Wright’s powerful solo performance.
14 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: The Portable Dorothy Parker at Gilded Balloon
Until 28 August 2017
By Joy Martin
Joy Martin reviews a beautifully constructed homage to Dorothy Parker.
13 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Ancient Shrines and Half Truths at Summerhall
Until 27 August 2017
By Joy Martin
Rich, sparkly, deep, intricate: Joy Martin reviews Binge Culture’s interactive headphone adventure around The Meadows.
12 August 2017
Reviews • Edinburgh Fringe 2017
Edinburgh Fringe Review: Hammerhead at Pleasance
By Joy Martin
Joy Martin writes a review/fan letter to the author of an ingeniously layered exploration of the creative process.
2 December 2016
Reviews • Keswick
Review: The Emperor and the Nightingale at Theatre by the Lake
Theatre By The Lake ⋄ 26th November 2016 - 14th January 2017
By Joy Martin
The sound of songbirds: Joy Martin reviews Theatre by the Lake’s Christmas show.
14 June 2016
Features
Watch Out Festival
By Joy Martin
Joy Martin encounters “raw ideas shining through unsanded edges”, eardrum-bursting walls of sound, and a whole lot of fun at the Cambridge Junction’s one day live art fest.
13 April 2016
Reviews • London Theatre • OWE & Fringe
Review: WAIL at BAC
BAC ⋄ 5th - 23rd April 2016
By Joy Martin
“And I just thought, ‘Oh, Little Bulb!'” Joy Martin sings with the whales at the BAC.
15 December 2015
Reviews • Cambridge
Snow White and Rose Red
Cambridge Junction ⋄ 8th - 31st December 2015
By Joy Martin
RashDash’s dazzling alternative panto.
6 November 2015
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Rotterdam
Theatre 503 ⋄ 27th October - 21st November 2015
By Joy Martin
Labels.
24 October 2015
Reviews • Dance
Without Stars / There We Have Been
Cambridge Junction ⋄ 14th October 2015
By Joy Martin
This bird has flown.
1 October 2015
Features • Essays
The Artistry of Stand Up Comedy
By Joy Martin
Joy Martin reflects on the theatre of comedy, as performed by Sofie Hagen, Mark Dean Quinn, James Acaster and Stewart Lee..
18 September 2015
Reviews • Cambridge
Of Riders and Running Horses
Cambridge Junction ⋄ 10th and 11th Septmber 2015
By Joy Martin
The roof under our feet.
3 July 2015
Features
BE Festival: Democratic and Delicious
By Joy Martin
We visit Birmingham’s annual festival of new European Theatre.