REVIEW: TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD (Gielgud Theatre)
I love Aaron Sorkin. That’s probably an inappropriate opening to a review of an adaptation of his. Nevertheless, ‘The West Wing’ changed my life, I love Aaron Sorkin, and I feel I should disclose this before proceeding. ‘To Kill a Mockingbird’ is a modern classic. Most children in the western world read or study it […]
REVIEW: 2:22 A GHOST STORY (Gielgud Theatre)
These days we are all so used to films and computer games that it’s very hard to scare anyone. Things that go bump in the night have made way for psychological thrillers and dystopian dramas that are believable and therefore more frightening. 2:22 tries to bring back the fear factor. And to some extent it […]
THE UPSTART CROW at London’s Gielgud Theatre is ‘a rollicking ride’ ★★★★
William Shakespeare may be one of the best playwrights ever to have lived, but he is also a fantastic character. We know so much – and yet so little – about him, that there is plenty of room for interpretation. We’ve seen him immortalised on stage in Shakespeare in Love, & Juliet and now The […]
REVIEW: Girl From The North Country (Gielgud Theatre) ★★★★★
Following on from its recent sold-out London run at the Old Vic, and then the Noel Coward Theatre, Girl From The North Country returns to the West End’s Gielgud Theatre for a limited season. Four years ago, Director Conor McPherson was approached, and asked if he’d be interested in using music maestro Bob Dylan’s songs […]
REVIEW: Les Miserables The Staged Concert (Gielgud Theatre) ★★★★
This week I was in London, preparing for the West End Wilma Awards but I couldn’t miss my chance to finally catch Les Miserables The Staged Concert (currently playing at the Gielgud Theatre whilst the Queens Theatre is being refurbished when a new production of the show will open the theatre under the new name […]
REVIEW: SWEAT (Gielgud Theatre) ★★★★
Set in 2000 against a background of George Bush’s face flickering on screens, booming declarations of economic decline, Sweat is a play which examines industrial disloyalty and the red-hot cinders of resentment and desperation it leaves behind. Running a bar in Reading, Pennsylvania we meet Stan, a friendly ex-factory worker who had to give up […]
REVIEW: COMPANY (Gielgud Theatre) ★★★★★
It’s a relief to know that the buzz around Marianne Elliott’s sex-switched production of Company is fully justified – it makes you feel better about London theatre-hype in general. Our great Lord Stephen of Sondheim himself has described Company as possessing ‘more of a condition’ than a narrative. That’s beautifully astute. Not a huge amount […]
REVIEW: THE CURIOUS INCIDENT OF THE DOG IN THE NIGHT-TIME (Gielgud Theatre) ★★★★★
On 20 June 2016, the West End production of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time welcomed a new cast and as a fan of the play I thought I would go along and check them out. Based on the 2003 book by Mark Haddon, The National Theatre production of The Curious Incident of […]