REVIEW: THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS (Gary’s Warehouse – The Bottle Shop) ★★★★★
It is the Night Before Christmas, when none but Santa’s elves are out and about. Oh yes, and Gary who’s working late. Well anyway, Gary happens upon an elf doing his yearly rounds, as one does if one is so foolish as not to be tucked up in bed at such a magic time. Thinking […]
REVIEW: TINA TURNER TEA LADY (Gary’s Warehouse – The Bottle Shop) ★★★★★
Providing the late night entertainment after a production of THE NIGHTMARE BEFORE CHRISTMAS at Gary’s Warehouse (The Bottle Shop) is TINA TURNER TEA LADY. Tina comes on in her tea ladies overalls with her stockings around her ankles. The only sign of the superstar that she truly is, is the wild Tina Turner hair with […]
REVIEW: HOW TO HIDE A LION (Polka Theatre) ★★★★★
Not being a parent myself, I’ve never been to the Polka Theatre for Children (despite it being at the end of my road). However 18 months ago my sister had an absolutely beautiful baby boy and he’s now at the age where things are more than just colours and shapes so it was time for […]
REVIEW: POST (Oval House) ★★★★
This is a fun version of all those Saturday morning television cookery shows, where a chef cooks something in front of his guests before feeding them the results. In this case there were no television cameras, no well featured kitchen and positively no A lister guests. The real interest is Xavier de Sousa, a friendly, […]
REVIEW: SCROOGE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES (Theatre 503) ★★★★★
With Christmas just around the corner it looks like it’s Panto time again. Oh no it isn’t! Oh yes it is! No really, it is, and there’s no better Panto on the block than Sleeping Tree’s SCROOGE AND THE SEVEN DWARVES at Theatre 503. Josh, James and John have rented the theatre, sold the tickets, […]
Rehearsal images released of Gemma Arterton in SAINT JOAN coming to the Donmar Warehouse
Joan: daughter, farm girl, visionary, patriot, king-whisperer, soldier, leader, victor, icon, radical, witch, heretic, saint, martyr, woman. Saint Joan is a play by George Bernard Shaw, based on the life and trial of Joan of Arc. Published in 1924, not long after the canonization of Joan of Arc by the Roman Catholic Church, the play […]
Immersive dining show THE WEDDING RECEPTION returns to Covent Garden
After a mammoth month at Edinburgh Fringe where it won 4- and 5- star reviews, this bonkers immersive comedy from the makers of Faulty Towers The Dining Experience is back in Covent Garden every Friday and Saturday night until 29 April 2017. Great for parties, there are gift vouchers available too, so it’s the perfect […]
REVIEW: HER ACHING HEART (The Hope Theatre) ★★★★★
“Oh what a day! Oh what a wind of hope blows through the echoing corridors of my breast! Rattling at the knobs and knockers of the doors to my dry and dusty emotions!” And so begins this superb, touching, gothic silliness. There is a romantic literature, specifically written for women, that is not quite pornographic […]
Black, White or even Green – there is a place for all in Theatre
Women playing the roles of men? Black actors playing principal characters? Children being portrayed as having gay parents? WHATEVER NEXT?! Remember when Maxine Peake played Hamlet or the Donmar’s all-female Henry IV? What about last year when David Suchet played Lady Bracknell in The Importance of Being Earnest? Not to mention the wonderful Sasha Regan […]