REVIEW: OUT THERE ON FRIED MEAT RIDGE ROAD (Trafalgar Studios) ★★★★★
I am a gal who loves to laugh: tittering, belly-laughing, a delayed chuckle, witty banter and snort your-beer-out-of-your-nose hilarious. Out There On Fried Meat Ridge Rd. at the Trafalgar Studios allowed me to indulge in all of my favourite kinds of laughter. The show is the brain child of Playwright Keith Stevenson, a proud native […]
REVIEW: OUR MAN IN HAVANA (Yvonne Arnaud Theatre) ★★★★
Cuba has become the tourist destination of 2017. Since Fidel Castro‘s death, people are flocking to visit the country before it ‘gets Trumped’, to see the famous classic cars, smoke Habanos and drink Mojitos. However, despite today’s sudden nostalgia for 1950’s Havana, Graham Greene‘s novel looks at the real Cuba that was, whilst also giving […]
REVIEW: THE RESISTIBLE RISE OF ARTURO UI (Donmar Warehouse)
The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, written by Bertolt Brecht in the 1950s and set in the 1930s, is a satyrical allegory based on Hitler’s rise to power as well as the career of the gangster Al Capone. ‘Ui’ a small time hood, has his sights set on taking over the Chicago cauliflower business, whatever […]
REVIEW: PETE ‘N’ KEELEY (Tristan Bates Theatre) ★★★★★
Pete ‘n’ Keely: A Musical By James Hindman and Mark Waldrop was first published early in 2002 and the first performance occurred, off Broadway, in December 2002. The show was an immediate hit with both the public and the critics. “The brightest, happiest and most entertaining show in town” according to Rex Reed of the […]