FAILURE PROJECT REVIEW - Fairy Powered Productions

Failure Project – Soho Theatre - North West End UK

Yolanda Mercy’s Failure Project is a sharp, cathartic and touching story of a woman who just can’t seem to catch a break – professionally, personally or creatively. It’s a sobering reflection of the theatre industry for emerging and mid-career writers, and the realities that face anyone trying to forge a career in the arts. The story follows a 33-year-old playwright, Ade, who is commissioned by a London theatre to write a script about her time o…

Review: Spitfire Girls at Darlington Hippodrome

Spitfire Girls Darlington Hippodrome 29th May 2025 Every so often I get the opportunity to review a production about which I know absolutely nothing and Spitfire Girls was one of those times. I have a rule when these chances come around which is not to look it up so that I may see it with fresh eyes, as it were.  Over the years, I have reviewed all manner of theatrical pieces in theatres and performance spaces from the cosy and intimate […] The …

FAILURE PROJECT REVIEW - Fairy Powered Productions

THE SOHO THEATRE – UNTIL 14th JUNE 2025 REVIEWED BY JACKIE THORNTON 4**** Yolanda Mercy writes, co-directs and solo-performs this absorbing, revealing and highly emotive dive into what it takes to succeed not just as a writer of stage and screen, but a female writer and a female writer of colour. The burden of responsibility weighs heavy on protagonist Ade, whose debut play Day Girl, about her experiences as a scholarship kid at an elite school…