Home alone: Tracey Sinclair reviews Hannah Sowerby’s one-woman comedy with shades of Alan Bennett and Victoria Wood.
Tracey Sinclair

Articles by Tracey Sinclair
14 October 2021
Reviews • National • Newcastle
Review: Braids and Cheer Up Slug at Live Theatre, Newcastle
7-23 October
By Tracey Sinclair
Bildungsroman: Tracey Sinclair reviews a double bill of North Eastern coming of age stories.
7 August 2021
Reviews • National • Newcastle
Review: Newcastle Fringe Festival at Alphabetti Theatre
27th July - 7th August
By Tracey Sinclair
‘An eclectic programme’: Tracey Sinclair samples Newcastle Fringe Festival’s offerings, from a performance inside a taxi to aquatic sound art.
8 July 2021
Reviews • National • Newcastle
Review: These Hills Are Ours at ARC, Stockton
6-7 July, then touring
By Tracey Sinclair
The lay of the land: Tracey Sinclair reviews Daniel Bye and Boff Whalley’s ode to hill running and the Kinder Scout mass trespass.
28 May 2021
Reviews • National • Newcastle
Review: AWARE at Alphabetti Theatre, Newcastle
25 May - 5 June
By Tracey Sinclair
‘Defiant optimism’: Tracey Sinclair reviews a trio of films installed at Newcastle’s Alphabetti Theatre centring neurodivergent artists.
7 May 2021
Reviews • National • Newcastle
Review: Listen In at Alphabetti Theatre
By Tracey Sinclair
An empty space: Tracey Sinclair reviews a triptych of audio works responding to the physical space of Newcastle’s Alphabetti Theatre.
15 April 2021
Reviews • National
Review: Distance Remaining at Macrobert Arts Centre (online)
14 April - 9 May
By Tracey Sinclair
New horizons: Tracey Sinclair reviews a trilogy of quest-themed short plays by Stewart Melton.
12 February 2021
Reviews • Glasgow • National
Review: Earwig at Tron Theatre, Glasgow (online)
27 January - 10 March
By Tracey Sinclair
Theatre for the cochlea: Tracey Sinclair reviews a varied set of audio-plays produced by sound designer Danny Krass.
26 October 2020
Reviews • National • Nottingham
Review: Bubble at Nottingham Playhouse
23-24 October
By Tracey Sinclair
Lockdown retrospective: Tracey Sinclair reviews James Graham’s play which surveys the summer lockdown through the eyes of a new relationship.
11 October 2020
Reviews • National • Newcastle
Review: 10 Minutes to…Call Home, Live Theatre (online)
By Tracey Sinclair
Home from home: Tracey Sinclair writes on an ‘eclectic but entertaining’ selection of ten-minute dramas by emerging writers.
17 September 2020
Reviews • National
Review: Credit, Alphabetti Theatre
By Tracey Sinclair
Out of credit: Tracey Sinclair reviews a livestream of Laura Lindow’s new play, an ‘urban fable’ about the impact of the rollout of Universal Credit in the North East.
11 July 2020
Features
Football Chants for Theatre
By Tracey Sinclair
“Where are you hiding, Ollie Dowden?” – Tracey Sinclair attempts to unite the warring spheres of football and theatre with some chants to yell from the stalls.
5 May 2020
Reviews
Review: GIFT Festival
By Tracey Sinclair
A digital invitation: Tracey Sinclair overcomes her livestream scepticism at Gateshead’s teeming, welcoming online festival of live art.
14 April 2020
Reviews • Imaginary Reviews
Imaginary Reviews: All These Castles, Rendered New
By Tracey Sinclair
“It feels conspiratorial, as illicit as an affair”: A new series commissioned by Greyscale begins with Tracey Sinclair’s imaginative jaunt across Newcastle.
17 March 2020
Reviews • National • Newcastle
Review: Elevator Festival, Live Theatre
11-21 March
By Tracey Sinclair
Seeds for the future: Tracey Sinclair writes on Live Theatre’s showcase of developing work from emerging makers from the North East and beyond.