Kevin Quarmby has been a professional actor for thirty-five years. Quarmby's experience as a theatre practitioner and his enthusiasm for the British stage have given him a unique and invaluable insight into the behind-the-scenes machinations of this glamorous profession. The often secretive and fantastical world is brought to life through Quarmby's thought-provoking and intelligent play reviews and interviews with actors and directors from the stage and screen. For observant, funny, and critically fair reviews of plays by Shakespeare, Ibsen, Becket, Ionesco, and many many more, enter this site and explore a wealth of critical and humorous writing which charts the development of twenty-first-century UK drama.

Quarmby was awarded his doctorate by the University of London following his Ph.D studies in the English Department at King's College London. At King's College, he has for some years taught English Renaissance Literature and Drama, whilst also writing for academic journals both in the UK and USA. Quarmby was dramaturg for (and actor in) Westward Ho! at the White Bear, Kennington, as well as director of a production of William Walton's comic opera The Bear for the Greenwich Opera Ensemble, featuring the rising-star mezzo-soprano, Belinda Williams. Quarmby gave his paper on Henry V at the 2008 International Shakespeare Conference (in collaboration with the Shakespeare Association of America) in Kolkata, India, and in 2009 has contributed to a forthcoming Shakespeare Encyclopedia. He participated as both actor and academic in the 'Symposium on Thomas Middleton's A Game at Chess' at Birkbeck College, University of London, and most recently directed two more operas, Jonathan Dove's Greed and Stephen Oliver's Cinderella; or, A Vindication of Sloth, for Bitsize Opera. As an actor, Kevin Quarmby has brought his theatre practitioner's experience to academe, an experience which he is eager to share with a wider audience. This site is dedicated to all who love British theatre, TV and film. Welcome.