Michaela Bennison

This morning I sat down on my bed and watched “The Barber Shop Chronicles” on the National Theatre YouTube Channel before it was taken down. It’s the third N...

I've been thinking a lot about the role art plays in society. Like everyone else who is currently self-isolating at home, I have spent a lot of my time consu...

Every profession has tools of their trade. A carpenter has his tool box, a surgeon her scalpel. For those of us who tread the boards, we have our repertoire....

Working in theatre is a bit odd at times. Sometimes your artistic heart's desire doesn't fit who you are as a casting commodity. Other times, on paper and fi...

"Life can only be understood backwards, but it must be lived forwards." - Søren Kieregaard Many people have reviewed their past year/decade across social med...

I was recently at a gathering with my boyfriend’s family. Being in a long-term relationship, it was an occasion for his extended family to get to know me. Na...

This time of year is a busy one in Theatre. The number of Christmas Shows and Pantomimes up and down the country is innumerable. This year, I'm lucky enough ...

I'm sitting in someone else's garden, my brain fogged with the cold that's whacked me in the fast over the last few days. Generic 4-chord songs by artists I ...

Tonight at about 1am, on the morning of Monday 28th May, I saw this tweet on my Twitter feed: (don't ask me why I was awake at this time - I have no idea!) A...

To those of us who feel lonely, who feel unlovable, who feel overwhelmed, who feel less than, who feel worthless, who feel broken: You are missed. You are lo...

As allies go, I am not the greatest. I am inexperienced. I don't know all the facts, figures and arguments necessary to shoot down bigoted, ignorant views. L...

The Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously said, “you can't step in the same river twice”. He believed that the world was transient. That everything changes. ...

Throughout their history, theatre and theatre reviews have had a tempestuous relationship. For theatre, the review is a double edged sword, leaving shows at ...

A famous author and YouTuber that I greatly admire said, “We are living in the middle of history”. I don't know if he was quoting someone or if he coined the...

I’m sitting in my room in London. It is 12 minutes to Midnight (N.B. It seems to be a recurring theme of this blog that when I write a post, it is late at ni...

I'm in a room in Manchester. It's 11:37pm on a Monday evening. It's two weeks until the end of my first professional job: Into The Woods at The Royal Exchang...

When people ask me about my life at The Royal Academy of Music, I describe it like being in a bubble. The same corridor. The same rooms. The same teachers an...

So I'm sitting in my tiny box of a room.The Holloway Road traffic is dashing past, muffled by the walls, and I'm thinking, "Damn, I really should write a blo...

As you may have noticed, if you've read some of my previous Blog posts or checked me out on Facebook and Twitter, theatre is kind of my thing. Whether it's a...