REVIEW: Quarter Life Crisis (Underbelly Cowgate) ★★★★★
Last year at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, a friend of mine Katie Brennan put on a show called Quarter Life Crisis, about what it means to be 25 and reflecting on life and whether or not you feel as grown up as you should. So, when I saw that this year, a different show with […]
REVIEW: Flo and Joan: The Kindness of Stranglers (Just The Tonic at The Tron) ★★★★★
Flo and Joan are the alter-ego’s of sister’s Nicola and Rosie Dempsey. Their ‘The 2016 Song’ went viral on YouTube at the beginning of 2017, gaining over half a million views of their fast-paced and quick-witted comedy song about everything that happened in 2016. Having just returned from living in Canada, Flo and Joan are […]
REVIEW: The OS Map Fan Club (The Space @ Surgeon’s Hall) ★★★★
The OS Map Fan Club is Helen Wood’s second solo comedy show where she shares with the audience her love of folded paper Ordnance Survey maps. She says the show is aimed at OS fanatics, the OS curious and even OS sceptics and those who use online mapping and GPS are welcome. Dressed in her […]
REVIEW: Assessment (Gilded Balloon @ The Rose Theatre) ★★★★
Assessment is a new play by Robert Dawson Scott produced by Shows on a Shoestring. The setting is “The Future: But Only Just” and that’s what makes this dark comedy so thought provoking and disturbing to watch along with the knowledge that all the statistics quoted come from UK Government sources. It’s Alan McDonald’s 77th […]
Emma Hatton talks to me about starring in the West End production of Evita
Evita (originally written as a rock/opera concept album) tells the story of Argentina’s first lady Eva Peron and her struggle to be accepted by the public due to her strong views. Whilst running for Vice President of Argentina, Eva had to withdraw from the candidacy due to ill heath and died of Cancer at the […]
Musical revue In Gay Company to make its West End debut
In Gay Company, the stylish musical revue by Fred Silver, makes its West End debut at the Jermyn Street Theatre later this month for a limited run. First opened off Broadway in 1974, the original production was nominated for “Best Score” by the New York Drama Critic Circle in 1975. It combines witty cabaret songs […]
REVIEW: Chatroom (Greenside @ Infirmary Street) ★★★★
Chatroom by Enda Walsh was first performed at the National Theatre in 2006; it is a play about teenagers, insecurity, mental health and online bullying. It is being performed at Greenside @ Infirmary Street by a young cast from Les Siege of Herons. Six teenagers communicate anonymously online in chatrooms. William and Jack argue about […]
Boy Band Five To Five chat to me about the Take That musical The Band
I chat to Five To Five, winners of BBC1’s Let It Shine competition about starring in the upcoming Take That Musical The Band and to ask them some of your fan questions.
REVIEW: Hansel and Gretel and the Witch Baba Yaga (St Paul’s Church) ★★★★
Everyone loves fairytales. There’s the right amount of tension, angst and moral, but good tends to triumph over evil. And if we ignore Disney’s sugarcoated happy endings, this usually involves a gruesome end for the so-called baddie. Which children and adults secretly enjoy. Did anyone feel sympathy for Cinderella’s sisters when their eyes were pecked […]
The Community (The Lion and Unicorn) ★★★★
The Community is Gaël van den Bossche‘s debut show at the Camden Fringe showing at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre. An extract of the play was performed last year at Southwark Playhouse as part of Soggy Brass, Velvet Trumpet’s evening of short comedy plays. The Community presented here is an underground society of the last […]