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Clarkston review – Heartstopper’s Joe Locke joins lonely souls looking to make life matter

Co-starring Ruaridh Mollica and Sophie Melville, this bleak three-hander by Samuel D Hunter leaves little unsaid

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2025

Sophie Melville and Laura Whitmore star in Apex Predator's entertaining take on London vampires

3/5 Bloodsuckers, societal breakdown and psychological horror all feature in this comic-gothic drama

Evening Standard · Apr 2, 2025

Apex Predator review – supernatural psychodrama bites off more than it can chew

Sophie Melville and Laura Whitmore star in an ambitious yet flawed play about the pressures of parenthood

The Guardian - UK · Mar 31, 2025

Sorter review – an unflinching account of opioid addiction

Richard Mylan’s grim narratives are filled with sympathy and compassion, lifted by Sophie Melville’s all-consuming and fearless performance

The Guardian - UK · Mar 6, 2023

Babygrows are such sweet sorrow: Romeo and Juliet get a gritty romcom reboot

Romeo, an out-of-work single dad, falls for Julie, a top student who dreams of being an astrophysicist. We go behind the scenes at a Shakespeare update that swaps fair Verona for Splott in Cardiff

The Guardian - UK · Feb 13, 2023

The best theatre of 2022

In a superb year for the stage, our chief critic gives 10 shows an extra round of applause. Plus, Guardian theatre reviewers each pick their 2022 standout

The Guardian - UK · Dec 15, 2022

Iphigenia in Splott at the Lyric Hammersmith review: Sophie Melville is extraordinary

The play, with its urgent message about deprivation, is made by Melville’s savagely moving performance

Evening Standard · Oct 3, 2022

Iphigenia in Splott review – a shattering modern classic that distils all our troubles

Gary Owen’s magnificent one-woman monologue brings Greek tragedy to Cardiff and reveals the terrible emotional costs of our societal shortfalls

The Guardian - UK · Oct 2, 2022

From Don’t Worry Darling to Peaky Blinders: a complete guide to this week’s entertainment

Enthralled by Harry Styles? Thrilled by dancing flat-capped gangsters? Our critics have you covered for the next seven days

The Guardian - UK · Sep 24, 2022

‘A call to arms’: Sophie Melville returns to furious drama about austerity’s brutal impact

It was her breakout role – and now the actor is starring once more in Gary Owen’s Iphigenia in Splott, a play that resonates with her personally and politically

The Guardian - UK · Sep 12, 2022