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Hello guys and welcome back to another Fringe in Fifteen! A series dedicated to fringe artists across the UK and beyond, giving them a fifteen minute elevator pitch style interview promoting what their show is about and where people can see it.  Today we welcome Thomas Carruthers of Righton Productions, and their show “Conflict of Interest” playing at The Hen and Chickens Theatre, Islington on 1st-3rd October 2026.  The show follows “Arthur Carmichael and Mitchell Hargrieve [who] run one of the most successful law practices in Philadelphia. Things grow tense when they take on the shocking case of Rita Lempkin, which shares similarities with a key case from all of their pasts. Five figures and their personal powerplays all intertwine for a dense and dynamic legal thriller, and a psycho-sexual game of manipulation and struggle” (quote from their official blurb).  Tickets available on https://unrestrictedview.co.uk/events/conflict-of-interest  More information available their Instagram: @righton_productions Thank you Thomas and good luck with the show! Any artist or group who would like to come on please drop me an email or a DM on Instagram 😊 Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Welcome back to Shakespeare Saturday!  Connecting modern hearts to timeless stories.  Hosted by myself and Sarah Spring 🎭 This week we look at one of the Bard’s least performed and most underrated comedies, Love’s Labour’s Lost.  Believed to have been written between 1588-1597 the play transports us to Navarre, where a young King, along with his three friends (Ferdinand ((The King)), Berowne, Longaville and Dumaine), take an oath, that for the next three years they will not fall into the temptation of women and will commit their time to studying and fasting.  However, their pact is quickly put to the test as the Princess of France (played by Sarah at the Edinburgh Fringe recently) arrives on a state visit with her three maids of honour (Rosalind, Maria and Katherine). Quickly, the men realise they cannot stick to their oath and fall deeply in love with the Princess and her three counterparts, abandoning their studies and fasts falling into temptation! The play is a commentary on when it comes to choosing between a life of academic excellence and human desire, there is only going to be one winner. Human nature.  As well as, the gender dynamics between the characters, as the women with their superior intellect and maturity run rings around the lovesick men. Showing that a life committed to something you think you should have is meaningless, when all you need is love. Not to mention, that to win a woman’s love, you have to fix yourself first.  Regarded as the lightest, frothiest comedy with a sharp twist at its conclusion, Love’s Labour’s Lost is a beautiful piece, with many hidden gems, that tell us to be ourselves and not what the world wants us to be.  Stay tuned for more geek out sessions on Shakespeare Saturday, and until next time, keep finding the magic in your own life! Follow Sarah on Instagram: @shakespearemadeclear Her website: damesarahspring.com Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Hello guys and welcome back to another Fringe in Fifteen! A series dedicated to fringe artists across the UK and beyond, giving them a fifteen minute elevator pitch style interview promoting what their show is about and where people can see it.  Today we welcome along Eliza Allen and her show “10A: The Fitting Room”, live at the Edinburgh Fringe (at the Tonic, The Caves and The Spare Room) until 30th August and then at the Etcetera Theatre in Camden on 11th and 12th September.  The show is about ‘Liz’ who “defines herself as a raging feminist. Somewhere between fitting first bras and nursing bras, she ends up in an abusive relationship. The lingerie fitting room is an exclusively female space, and through meeting and helping other women, Liz redefines her iden-titty.  It redefines womanhood, domestic abuse, and challenges the idea of feminism in a world where the term is frequently used but seldom defined. Tonally, it's like 'Fleabag' and 'Prima Facie' had an Australian baby swaddled in lingerie.  This is an original piece, debuting at Edinburgh Fringe. It is based on the writer and performer’s personal story. Eliza Allen was a bra fitter for eight years, and this play is inspired by real events and people she met and worked with.” (Quote from official blurb of the show). Tickets available now via edfringe.com and instagram pages @10a_thefittingroom and @etcetera_theatre_camden  Thank you Eliza and good luck with the show! Any artist or group who would like to come on please drop me an email or a DM on Instagram 😊 Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Tyrone trained at Mountview in musical theatre and has worked extensively since graduating.  His credits include: Gator, Memphis the Musical, LondonLanx, Angel City, Edinburgh FringeGenie, Aladdin, King’s Lynn Corn ExchangeDoctor, Book of Mormon, Prince of Wales Theatre, West End - for which he received a Broadway World NominationSeaweed, Hairspray, Curve LeicesterJudas, Jesus Christ Superstar, Regents Park Open Air Theatre White, DreamGirls, Savoy TheatreHim, Angry, Southwark Playhouse, Offie NominationThe Academy of Homos or Everyone in America, Finborough Theatre, where he received his second Broadway World nomination.  On top of all this, he won the Emerging Talent Award at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards, 2016, as well as the Mousetrap Best Actor Award for Judas in JCS.  For the same show, he got two further nominations, Best Actor in A Musical, Olivier’s 2017, and Best Supporting Actor in a musical, WhatsOnStage, 2017.  We discuss his journey into musical theatre, training at Mountview and his work in three of the biggest shows in the canon. Memphis, Book of Mormon and currently starring again as Judas this time at the London Palladium. In addition, how to look after your voice on and off stage and how to adapt a healthy routine for demanding show weeks.  Get your tickets for Jesus Christ Superstar now! Thank you Tyrone! Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Hello guys and welcome back to another Fringe in Fifteen! A series dedicated to fringe artists across the UK and beyond, giving them a fifteen minute elevator pitch style interview promoting what their show is about and where people can see it.  Today we welcome Matt Ackermann and his show “TAP OUT! (Or I’ll hit you again) at the Edinburgh Fringe until 31st August. Catch it at the Gilded Balloon in “The Coorie” every night at 6:20pm.  The show follows a man “realising that his life is going nowhere, a man decides to go out in a mask and pick fights with random people on the street. He knows it’s reckless and amoral, but he doesn’t care - it’s liberating. He feels like a “man”. And as he gets a taste for it, the consequences of these bouts come back soon to bite him.” The play is an examination of identity, purpose and male loneliness. It’s Fight Club meets Fleabag meets James Graham’s Punch.  Written and directed by Conor Dye, the show is now live at the Edinburgh Fringe get your tickets now! Thanks Matt and good luck with the show! Any artist or group who would like to come on please drop me an email or a DM on Instagram 😊 Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Hello guys and welcome back to another Fringe in Fifteen! A series dedicated to fringe artists across the UK and beyond, giving them a fifteen minute elevator pitch style interview promoting what their show is about and where people can see it.  Today we welcome Lizzie Bean and her show “Phuckets and Rainbows” at the Edinburgh Festival this year.  A one woman show that “bends reality, breaks rules and asks the big questions in the small moments”.  Catch it at the Ivy Studio @ Green Side on George Street, Edinburgh, from 7th-15th August. To find out more and buy tickets, link is below: https://www.edfringe.com/tickets/whats-on/phuckets-and-rainbows Thank you Lizzie and good luck with the show! Any artist or group who would like to come on please drop me an email or a DM on Instagram. Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Joel trained at The Hammond and has been part of some of the most well-known shows to date.  Including one very recently you might be aware of. His credits include: Rent, UK TourWest End Women, UK TourEvita, Ljubljana Festival, SloveniaSimon, Jesus Christ Superstar, Regents Park Open Air TheatreCurious Incident of the Dog in the Nigh time, UK TourKinky Boots, UK TourCock, Ambassadors Theatre with Jonathan Bailey, replacing Taron Egerton after he stepped away from the project.  You can catch him right now in London at the Aldwych Theatre in “Sinatra” where he plays the man himself, Frank Sinatra, doing it his way (pun intended).  We discuss his introduction to the business as well as playing one of the most famous singers on the planet.  The show takes us through the highs and lows of Sinatra’s life, his romance with Ava Gardener which threatened to derail his career and how his comeback is regarded as one of the greatest of all time.  In addition, how he auditioned for the part, working with Frank’s daughter Tina Sinatra and bringing all time classics such as “Fly Me To The Moon”, “That’s Life” and “My Way” to life every night.  Tickets available now! Thank you Joel! Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Hello guys and welcome back to another Fringe in Fifteen! A series dedicated to fringe artists across the UK and beyond, giving them a fifteen minute elevator pitch style interview promoting what their show is about and where people can see it.  Today we welcome fellow actor and friend of mine Emily Drewett and her show “Situationshit”, on at the Libra Theatre Cafe on 15th and 16th August at 3:45pm both days.  A show about “the ever shifting struggle of starting over, when life as you know it changes”.  To find out more and book tickets visit follow here: https://camdenfringe.com/events/situationsht/ Thank you Emily and good luck with the show! Any artist or group who would like to come on please drop me an email or a DM on Instagram 😊 Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Danielle is a barrister at Matrix chambers and has been involved in cases involving serious crime, protest law, inquests and inquiries.  Bringing empathy and sensitivity to the table, especially during instances regarding children and young people, she thrives in bringing cases like these to justice.  She holds an LLB (Bachelor of Law) degree from Sheffield University and completed her BPTC (Bar Professional Training Course) at the University of Law, Bloomsbury.  Prior to her training, she worked at the law reform charity “JUSTICE” as a criminal justice policy intern, whose research helped to get compensation for a case of miscarriage of justice at the Supreme Court.  While studying she also managed the “Innocence Project”, which worked on a range of criminal appeals and applications to the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC). In recognition of her services she was nominated for the Chancellor’s Medal and was additionally invited to sit on the CCRC’s stakeholder forum.  She spent some time in 2023 working as a sexual violence lawyer for the Centre of Women’s Justice. Advising survivors accessing the Women and Girls Network Survivors Gateway about their legal rights when the police asked for their digital data as part of an Operation Soteria Pilot Scheme.  Her work has been used for Netflix’s documentary “When Missing Turns to Murder”, and she has also been a legal consultant on Suzie Miller’s trailblazing plays, “Prima Facie” and “Inter Alia”.  Providing the cast and creative team with the current state of the law when it deals with sexual assault cases against women from both the side of the victim and perpetrator.  We discuss the areas of the law, tackled by both plays, that still to this very day are not helping victims of sexual assault get the justice they need. As well as her journey towards becoming a barrister and the huge impact that Suzie Miller’s plays continue to have.  For more information about Danielle and her work, visit her website: matrixlaw.co.uk/member/danielle-manson/ Art changes the world! Thank you Danielle! Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Hello guys and welcome back to another Fringe in Fifteen! A series dedicated to fringe artists across the UK and beyond, giving them a fifteen minute elevator pitch style interview promoting what their show is about and where people can see it.  Today we welcome along actor and writer Joanna Orlowska and her show “Off Script” which will play at the Drayton Arms Theatre, London on 23rd and 24th July, before heading to the Edinburgh Fringe (Paradise Green) from the 7th-14th August.  Joanna’s show is about “a journalist navigating identity, language and integrity inside a British newsroom, as personal and political tensions begin to collide” (from her website).  Tickets on sale now. Thank you Joanna and good luck with the show! Any artist or group who would like to come on please drop me an email or a DM on Instagram 😊 Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Ray trained at Rose Bruford and has been a part of some of the best things across stage and screen since.  His credits include, for Film: HamiltonBeauty and the BeastHamlet, dir. Ken BranaghSummer in Cape Town Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone TV: Red DwarfDeath in ParadiseShakespeare and Hathaway Silent WitnessHis Dark Materials Theatre: Countless shows with the RSC - Pericles, Othello, Romeo & Juliet, Troilus and Cressida and The Merchant of Venice to name a few. Macbeth at the GlobeGuys and DollsThe Firm, Hampstead Theatre Including one very special credit with the RSC in 2012, where he played Mark Antony in Gregory Doran’s African adaptation of one of Shakespeare’s best plays, Julius Caesar. Special mention to the whole company and creative team behind it (now available on Globe Player and DVD)! We discuss his journey into the business and his monumental performance as Mark Antony. How he found his version of the character, who he is to him and how approaching famous monologues like “the dogs of war” or “Friends, Romans, Countrymen, lend me your ears” is anything but difficult.  You just understand what the character is saying and why they’re saying it.  All this and much more, thank you Ray! Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Simon is one of the most celebrated directors in the London theatre scene. He has tackled some of the most well-known texts in the literary canon as well as new writer’s work. His directing credits include: Killer Joe, staring Orlando Bloom - Trafalgar TheatreRubber Room, Old VicThe Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, Donmar Warehouse, starring Lenny Henry and his sister Lucy EatonSilence of the Sea, Donmar Almost Maine, Park TheatreAlligators, Hampstead Theatre Currently, he is the director of the smash-hit revival of Edmund Rostand’s classic play “Cyrano de Bergerac”,  playing now at the Noel Coward Theatre after a successful run at the RSC, starring Adrian Lester.  On top of this, Simon also co-created, wrote and starred in “Staged”, a drama that brilliantly captured life in lockdown. Streaming now on BBC IPlayer starring Michael Sheen, David Tennant, Samuel L.Jackson, Lucy Eaton, Judi Dench amongst many more.  We discuss making “Staged” during the lockdown, the rewards and challenges of putting a piece of television together during the restrictions, and how you can make a story out of anything.  As well as, working with poet Debris Stevenson on reviving Cyrano de Bergerac, bringing it back to London audiences and how this play still has the power to make you laugh, cry and remind you of the power of words.  Get your tickets now! Playing until 5th September.  Thank you so much Simon! Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Welcome back to Shakespeare Saturday!  Connecting modern hearts to timeless stories.  Hosted by myself and Sarah Spring 🎭 This week we look at one of the Bard’s most performed comedies, Twelfth Night.  The story starts at sea, a shipwreck, Viola thinking she is the only survivor between herself and her twin brother Sebastian, sets foot on the island of Illyria. “What country, friends, is this?” She asks.  What ensues is a love triangle of all love triangles between Orsino, Cesario (Viola) and Olivia.  Viola disguised as a boy (Cesario) meets the Duke, Orsino, who is infatuated with Olivia, who in turn is grieving the loss of her brother and father and is reluctant to return Orsino’s passion. Olivia upon a chance meeting with Cesario (Viola in disguise) falls head over heels in love with ‘him’ while Viola has become completely enamoured with Orsino, despite his constant wailing and self-deprecation.  Whilst at the same time, pure chaos kicks off between Maria, Sir Toby Belch and Sir Andrew Agucheek, who plan to prank Malvolio. They do so by planting a letter supposedly written by Olivia to the pompous and irritating purist, making him believe that she has fallen in love with him in a cruel yet amusing plot to bring him down.  Sarah and I discuss what makes this one of the most celebrated comedies as well as how far one could say this play is a tragedy in disguise.  Not to mention how this play was inspired by one of Shakespeare’s favourite poets, Ovid, and his book “Metamorphosis” which promotes Sarah’s “Echo Theory” that she outlines in detail.  Furthermore, how this play tackles themes to do with gender, cross dressing, false accusation, false hope, identity, sexuality and a celebration of Greek mythology, all in a way that makes you think and above all else, makes you laugh. Special mention to the brilliant all male production at the Globe in 2012 (available to watch on Globe Player) led by Mark Rylance as Olivia and Stephen Fry as Malvolio.  Stay tuned for more geek out sessions on Shakespeare Saturday, and until next time, keep finding the magic in your own life! Follow Sarah on Instagram: @shakespearemadeclear Her website: damesarahspring.com Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Chloëbeth is a classically trained singer who achieved a grade 8 in her ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music) with distinction when she was only 17.  She studied Contemporary Theatre and Performance as well as Popular Music at University in Manchester for 4 years graduating with a first in 2014.  Her vocal interests stretch across genres such as jazz, musical theatre, pop, however her specialty is with the classics. The one that wows the crowds as well as men in Italian churches on Instagram! She has also been involved in television with a leading role in a BBC 1 Drama Documentary, as well as playing “Carmen” and “Serena” in Fame: The Musical.  Her vocals have been heard across luxurious events such as weddings to gigs all hanging on very note. For more clips and access to her music, follow her on Instagram where you’ll find more clips of her in action and much more.  We discuss her opera training, approaching famous songs such as Now We Are Free from Gladiator to how embracing your own interests and following your heart is the best thing you can do.  Thank you Chloë! Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning

Kate is now one of three women on the Equity Register of Fight Directors since 2001, and has enjoyed working as a fight director for more than twenty years.  Being a retired competitive boxer and qualified coach, she knows how to choreograph a physical fight, be it a bar brawl to battle scenes to make it look as effective as possible. While making sure the actors do it as safely as possible.  She is the one that creates those fight scenes that make you move in your seat, grip your arm rest a little tighter and make you gasp with shock. For all the right reasons! Her work spans across screen and SO MUCH theatre! For screen she has worked on: Coronation Street, Emmerdale, Hollyoaks, Sky Pilot including adverts for Toyota.  Her stage and screen crossovers include, Death of England (2022) starring Rafe Spall, and Romeo and Juliet (2021) starring Jessie Buckley and Josh O’Connor for the National Theatre.  For theatre, she has worked at The National, RSC, The Globe, West End, Donmar, Royal Court, Royal Opera House New York and Regents Open Air Theatre to name a few.  Some honourable mentions of her fight work were found on: King Lear, 2018, with Ian McKellenCyrano de Bergerac, with James McAvoyMidsummer Nights Dream at the Bridge TheatreFrankenstein, National, with Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee MillerOthello, National, with Adrian Lester and Rory Kinnear Curious Incident, National and West EndSalomé, NT, and King Lear at the Almeida, with Yaël Farber In her words: “I love telling the physical story of the play through my fights - exploring what motivates the characters to commit such hideous acts of violence. I always work closely with the actors and I see my job as guiding them to a place of choreography that becomes an integral part of their roles.  Obstacles are always opportunities, and I do my best to embrace everything that is thrown my way”.  We discuss her process of directing fights, getting assured and comfortable with her actors beforehand and executing a stage combat scene that’s both believable and safely conducted.  We look specifically at her work on Othello and getting a great reaction from a scene in a play called “Sweat”.  Thank you Kate! Oliver Gower Spotlight Link: https://www.spotlight.com/9097-9058-5261 Instagram: @ollietheuncensoredcritic For enquiries and requests: [email protected] Please Like, Download and Subscribe ✍️ Thank you all for your support! Music from #InAudio: https://inaudio.org/  Track Name. Early Morning