By Rose Mckean “Always be a first-rate version of yourself, instead of a second-rate version of somebody else.” Judy Garland These iconic words ring true in Cartwright’s classic: The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, which tells the touching story of a reclusive young songbird finding her voice. Crippled by shyness and tethered to her suffocating mother, LV hides a secret talent: an uncanny ability to echo the most iconic singers of the 20th century. Whether it be Shirley Bassey

By Catherine Kirkham-Sandy The old saying goes that hindsight is 20/20. In A Bright Room Called Day, this only makes the whole story more tragic. Knowing that these effervescent characters have another twelve years to endure before they can be completely safe from the threat of Nazism makes the relief of Agnes Eggling (Lucy Fourgs) and Annabella Gotchling (Valeria Di Pasquale) at the November 1932 election results painful in its dramatic irony. Yet the play is still remarkabl