REVIEW: Dissociated (Etcetera Theatre) ★★★
One doesn’t attend performances at tiny above pub venues like the Etcetera Theatre expecting to see polished and ready for the west end shows and Dissociated is certainly no exception. However, it has a nugget of what could be a truly beautiful, courageous and successful show. Alex played by Eloise Jones is a twenty-seven year […]
REVIEW: GREAT EXPECTATIONS (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★
Neil Bartlett’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, Great Expectations creates something fresh and energetic, entirely suitable for the young cast from the National Youth Theatre. Dickens is not shy of incorporating huge detail into his work, so Bartlett’s strength is to strip out the superfluous and focus on the key emotional drama in the […]
REVIEW: Calendar Girls the Musical (Winter Gardens, Blackpool) ★★★★
Calendar girls was originally a film and then a play written by Tim Firth, based on the real-life story of how some ladies from a Women’s Institute group in a Yorkshire village ended up taking-off their clothes for a naked but tastefully discreet photo-shoot for a calendar to raise funds for a blood cancer charity. […]
REVIEW: GROAN UPS (Vaudeville Theatre) ★★★★★
Mischief theatre are now infamous amongst the theatre scene as the creators of ‘The play that goes wrong’, ‘Comedy about a bank robbery’ and all round kings & queens of comedy. This year they have teamed up with the Vaudeville Theatre for a 1 year residency in which they will unleash 4 brand new shows […]