It’s good to see theatre is alive and well at the Network Theatre. Tucked next to Waterloo station, the second press night for Twelfth Night was buzzing - and The Acting Gymnasium group kept that energy up. Following their successful production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, it was a treat to see Gavin McAlinden’s vision come alive with this high-chemistry cast.

Image: a woman holds a sign demanding a woman's right to abortion while protesting the closure of an abortion clinic in Madison, Wisconsin, 1971.

Monica Ali’s latest novel Love Marriage comes after a decade long break from releases, and it shoots Ali back into the limelight with a story full of heart. In conversation at UEA Live with Ali, Professor Alison Donnell deemed it “serious and funny, generous and probing”, a balance that the award-winning writer has been known for since her Booker Shortlisted 2003 debut Brick Lane. The evening’s conversation took off naturally with – where else – the title; Ali explains that it’s not all that mee...