REVIEW: A GIRL AND A GUN (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★
“All you need to make a movie is a girl and a gun” – Jean-Luc Godard; and all you need to attend this show is an open mind and nerves of steel. Louise Orwin, a performance artist who uses theatre to portray messages relevant to modern society, follows the huge success of ‘Prettyugly’ (a show […]
REVIEW: CANDIDE (Bridewell Theatre) ★★★★
Based on Voltaire’s novella of 1759, this story concerns the naive young man Candide and his adventures on both sides of the Atlantic (and a few mishaps along the way). Candide is an innocent who, at the outset, lives in Baron of Thunder-Den-Tronk’s castle in the Westphalia region of Germany, and wants nothing more than […]
REVIEW: TESTOSTERONE (New Diorama Theatre) ★★★★★
TESTOSTERONE is a new collaboration between acclaimed transgender actor and writer Kit Redstone and award-winning company Rhum and Clay at the New Diorama Theatre, mixing the visual theatre skills of Rhum and Clay with Redstone’s direct storytelling. This is the true story of Redstone’s first experience of a male gym changing room at the age of […]
West End celebrates Black Friday with a black out
Whilst many people spent Friday milling around the shops, hoping to bag some bargains in the Black Friday sales, London’s West End was plunged into darkness when a power cut saw Soho, China Town and Piccadilly Circus plunged into darkness between 5-9pm, causing several West End theatre shows to close their doors as the shows […]
London Musical Theatre Orchestra announce cast for A CHRISTMAS CAROL at the Lyceum Theatre
The London Musical Theatre Orchestra is delighted to announce the cast for its much anticipated Christmas concert; the hit Broadway musical, A CHRISTMAS CAROL. Robert Lindsay is to take the lead role of Scrooge joined by an illustrious supporting cast, that includes musical theatre star Carrie Hope Fletcher performing for the first time alongside her […]
You can have your cake but don’t eat it at the theatre or Imelda Staunton will be after you
Not a week goes by in this business we call show without someone writing an article about the topic of how to behave at the theatre. This week it has been the turn of West End legend Imelda Staunton who told the Radio Times she doesn’t understand why people “can’t engage in just one thing, […]
REVIEW: MORIBUND (Live At Zedel) ★★★
This is the second show by quirky Gimcrack Productions, following on from their debut ‘Gimcrackery’, of which I have also seen. It was interesting to witness both productions, to get a feel for their style and to better understand what it is they are aiming to achieve. Eleanor Hush (Rosie Kohl) awakens to find herself […]
REVIEW: STILL (Ovalhouse Theatre) ★★★★
In 2009 Vivian Maier died, alone, in Chicago. Among her possessions was a tea chest full of her excellent but un-viewed Chicago urban streets photographs. The pictures had been taken painstakingly over the years with her trusty Rolliflex, twin lens reflex camera. Maier had only once tried to exhibit her work, in a New York […]
REVIEW: TOLKIEN MUSICAL (Arts Theatre) ★★★★
The journey to become a celebrated literary figure was a long and trying one for John Ronald Reuel Tolkien. In his youth, he loses his mother and is henceforth brought up by stern Father Francis. When the romance between Tolkien and Edith Bratt starts to blossom, Francis forbids him to see her again. John prioritises […]
A blog a day keeps the blogger blogging
So here’s the thing. I’m classed as a blogger. I’m not even sure if I agree with that but apparently that’s the box I fit into when being categorised by other people. But the funny thing is, I don’t tend to write blogs that much (insert laughing emoji). So I have decided to commit myself […]