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Bryony Rae Taylor

Bryony has been a reviewer and features writer across the UK for ten years and joined BroadwayWorld in 2019. She is based in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne and is currently finishing up her doctorate in performance at Northumbria University. A theatre producer by trade, she is researching the culture of British theatre.

In her spare time, Bryony can usually be found ambling around pointing at nearby animals and shouting their species name at them ("CAT!", "COW!" etc), doodling, or crocheting.






Feature: ELEVATOR FRINGE, Part Three: Make Haste! The Fringe is Upon Us!
Feature: ELEVATOR FRINGE, Part Three: Make Haste! The Fringe is Upon Us!
August 3, 2022

The trains are packed with line learners and gorgeous clowns and the reviewers are sharpening their pencils. BWW readers are choosing shows so, performers, help them! And QUICKLY!

Feature: ELEVATOR FRINGE, Part Two: Performers, you have 30-seconds to sell your show... GO, GO GO!
Feature: ELEVATOR FRINGE, Part Two: Performers, you have 30-seconds to sell your show... GO, GO GO!
August 1, 2022

Performers... you're in a lift and you have 30-seconds to sell your show... GO, GO GO!

Feature: ELEVATOR FRINGE, Part One: Performers Pitch Their Shows To You... Quickly!
Feature: ELEVATOR FRINGE, Part One: Performers Pitch Their Shows To You... Quickly!
July 27, 2022

BroadwayWorld gives performers an opportunity to rep their show. The catch? Keeping it snappy... ready, steady... go!

Interview: Your Aunt Fanny of MUFF SAID Talks Writing, Mansplaining And Getting To The Edinburgh Fringe
Interview: Your Aunt Fanny of MUFF SAID Talks Writing, Mansplaining And Getting To The Edinburgh Fringe
July 26, 2022

BroadwayWorld chats with three members (Katie, Matilda, and Lydia) of the all-womxn sketch group Your Aunt Fanny from the Northeast of England ahead of their Edinburgh Fringe show.

Review: 300 THOUGHTS FOR THEATREMAKERS: A MANIFESTO FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY THEATREMAKER
Review: 300 THOUGHTS FOR THEATREMAKERS: A MANIFESTO FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY THEATREMAKER
July 8, 2022

What did our critic think of 300 Thoughts For Theatremakers: A Manifesto For The Twenty-First Century Theatremaker?

Interview: Richard Katz of CABARET at The Kit Kat Club At The Playhouse Theatre
Interview: Richard Katz of CABARET at The Kit Kat Club At The Playhouse Theatre
July 8, 2022

BroadwayWorld speaks to actor Richard Katz about his entrance into director Rebecca Frecknall’s thrilling version of Kander and Ebb's legendary musical, Cabaret. We chat about his extensive theatre CV and the excitement around going into a show that is already soaring.

Interview: Russell Lucas On His New Book,  300 THOUGHTS FOR THEATREMAKERS: A MANIFESTO FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY THEATREMAKER
Interview: Russell Lucas On His New Book, 300 THOUGHTS FOR THEATREMAKERS: A MANIFESTO FOR THE TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY THEATREMAKER
July 7, 2022

Russell Lucas chats to BroadwayWorld about his unique perspective on theatre in the UK, his drive to write his new book, and the future of the term “theatremaker”.

Interview: Daniel Monks Discusses THE SEAGULL, Covid Delays And Disability On Stage
Interview: Daniel Monks Discusses THE SEAGULL, Covid Delays And Disability On Stage
June 28, 2022

Australian actor Daniel Monks (Pulse, Teenage Dick) discusses opening the long-awaited revival of The Seagull, penned by Anya Reiss and directed by Jamie Lloyd.

BWW Review: GAMBLE, Northern Stage
BWW Review: GAMBLE, Northern Stage
May 20, 2022

Gamble is a show about gambling addiction. Informed by Walker’s own experiences of being the partner of a gambling addict, the multi-media show marries glorious levels of glamour with the humbling testimonies of those who have had issues with gambling.

BWW Review: GRACE CAMPBELL: WHY I'M NEVER GOING INTO POLITICS, Soho Theatre
BWW Review: GRACE CAMPBELL: WHY I'M NEVER GOING INTO POLITICS, Soho Theatre
February 22, 2020

Grace Campbell's Why I'm Never Going into Politics is a mash-up of political anecdotes, infused with some MEGA gossip from Grace's childhood spent hanging out with the Blairs, Putins and Corbyns.

BWW Review: KAI SAMRA: UNDERCLASS, Soho Theatre
BWW Review: KAI SAMRA: UNDERCLASS, Soho Theatre
October 23, 2019

At the very least, Kai Samra's comedy hits home with how embarrassing the state of things are in Britain right now. From a council bin for sharp items - a futile attempt to lower knife crime - adorned with everyone's favourite everyman, the Cookie Monster, to the BEST fact, that Tommy Robinson once owned a tanning salon. 

BWW Review: TRANSLATIONS, National Theatre
BWW Review: TRANSLATIONS, National Theatre
October 22, 2019

Brian Friel's Translations, now nearly 40 years old, captures the best of humanity whilst avoiding even a teaspoon of sickly romanticism.

BWW Review: A HISTORY OF WATER IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Royal Court
BWW Review: A HISTORY OF WATER IN THE MIDDLE EAST, Royal Court
October 15, 2019

Sabrina Mahfouz has created a lecture/music gig about the history of water in the Middle East.

BWW Review: SHUCK 'N' JIVE, Soho Theatre
BWW Review: SHUCK 'N' JIVE, Soho Theatre
October 5, 2019

Shuck 'n' Jive, Cassiopeia Berkeley-Agyepong & Simone Ibbett-Brown's debut play, charts the journey through creating a piece of theatre that represents them as individuals, and not solely defined by the colour of their skin.

BWW Interview: Lloyd Owen Talks NOISES OFF at the Garrick Theatre
BWW Interview: Lloyd Owen Talks NOISES OFF at the Garrick Theatre
October 2, 2019

Lloyd Owen about what it's like to act in something where art, quite literally, imitates life: Noises Off at the Garrick Theatre.

BWW Review: BLOOD WEDDING, Young Vic
BWW Review: BLOOD WEDDING, Young Vic
September 26, 2019

Tragedy was Lorca'sdomain, and fabric of his plays are about the darkest parts of collective human behaviour. Yaël Farber's production at the Young Vic is unrelentingly harrowing, and utterly captivating.

BWW Interview: Isobel Waller-Bridge Talks BLOOD WEDDING and FLEABAG
BWW Interview: Isobel Waller-Bridge Talks BLOOD WEDDING and FLEABAG
September 25, 2019

Isobel Waller-Bridge discusses her approach to composition ahead of the opening of a new adaptation of Federico García Lorca's tragedy, Blood Wedding, at Young Vic.

BWW Interview: Anthony Calf Talks HEDDA TESMAN at Chichester Festival Theatre
BWW Interview: Anthony Calf Talks HEDDA TESMAN at Chichester Festival Theatre
September 2, 2019

BroadwayWorld talks to Anthony Calf about his role in Hedda Tesman at Chichester Festival Theatre.

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ALGORITHMS, Pleasance Courtyard
EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: ALGORITHMS, Pleasance Courtyard
August 19, 2019

Algorithms is a feel-good show, comic and gently moving. It's written by Sadie Clark who developed the play through the Soho Theatre's Writer's Lab.

EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: HOTTER, Underbelly
EDINBURGH 2019: BWW Review: HOTTER, Underbelly
August 19, 2019

Mary Higgins and Ell Potter interviewed women and trans people from the age of 11 to 97 about what gets them 'hot', and then made a wonderful verbatim piece of theatre.



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