REVIEW: CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY celebrates four years in the West End
This week Charlie and the Chocolate Factory celebrated its fourth and final year in London’s West End at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane ahead of its closure after Christmas, to make room of 42nd Street which is set to open in March 2017. Based on the 1964 children’s book by the legendary Roald Dahl, the […]
BU21 transfers to the Trafalgar Studios
Every night on the news there’s literally always some sort of massively catastrophic end-of-the-world shit going down… And I always wonder ‘how would I cope, if that happened to me?’ Transferring after a sell-out, award-nominated run at Theatre503, Stuart Slade’s BU21 follows six Londoners in the aftermath of a fictitious terrorist attack. In turn terrifying, […]
REVIEW: THE ROYLE (The Tabernacle) ★★★★
As you enter The Tabernacle (current home of the Bush Theatres’s 2015 revival ‘The Royale’) there is no question as to the era. Beer bottles, dirt and flyers litter the ground of a hazy smoke filled boxing arena in the centre the room. Low hanging factory lights enhance the shadows whilst a blues record echoes […]
REVIEW: CATS (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★
If there’s one show from my childhood I remember listening to again and again it’s CATS, so needless to say I was incredibly excited when I saw it had rolled back into town. I was with excitement to hear the songs I loved so much when I was younger and had high hopes that after […]
REVIEW: TRUMPAGEDDON (King’s Head Theatre) ★★★★
TRUMPAGEDDON was a sold out success at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe festival, back in August when the election seemed so far away. It’s back for a few more shows at The King’s Head Theatre in the run-up to election day, including election night itself. You’re invited to spend an hour with Donald Trump, to hear […]
REVIEW: DEAD FUNNY (Vaudeville Theatre) ★★★★
Terry Johnson’s award-winning 1994 comedy DEAD FUNNY is a fantastic comedic addition to the West End and a small yet painfully funny antidote to the huge trials and tribulations of 2016. Set in 1992, DEAD FUNNY tells the story of Ellie (Katherine Parkinson) and Richard (Rufus Jones), a dysfunctional married couple who haven’t had sex […]
REVIEW: TRAINSPOTTING (The Vaults) ★★★★★
Transgressive fiction is known as literature that deals with characters who feel confined by the expectations of authority figures and society and wish to break free of those confinements in taboo or forbidden ways. Dealing with self-identity, inner peace or personal freedom, often the protagonists of transgressive fiction are seen as mentally ill, anti-social or […]