Theatre Reviewer
Since reading English at university in the early 2010s, Hamza has written for publications: from a now defunct BargainTheatreland.com to The Stage. It was seeing contemporary British theatre critics such as the Guardian‘s chief theatre critic Arifa Akbar, which at inspired Hamza to pick up the mantle again (due to the dearth of critics from a working-class, northern English of Pakistani heritage) in 2020 to establish his place firmly as a leading voice in criticism in the British Theatre scene.
Hamza covers a variety of productions – from plays, musicals, opera – in the West End, on Broadway, Edinburgh Fringe Festival and beyond. He primarily is interested in works by people of colour, by those in the Global South and those on the fringes of society.
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