Michaela Bennison

Calculate vb: to work out the value of something We all have something, an experience from our formative years, that we never forget. Tha...

I didn't watch any of the videos depicting Saturday's fascist protests. Call me a millennial snowflake if you will, but I knew those imag...

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ti...

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

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 t...

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 yea...

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...

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 ...

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

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 bigote...

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

Throughout their history, theatre and theatre reviews have had a tempestuous relationship. For theatre, the review is a double edged swor...

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...

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 po...

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 ...

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. ...