REVIEW: La Voix Meets Psychic Sally Morgan (Live at Zedel) ★★★★
In the second instalment of this year’s trilogy of La Voix Meets, nationally cherished medium Sally Morgan joined the inimitable La Voix at Live at Zédel for an exclusive interview. The pair, who have enjoyed a friendship for many years, spoke openly about Sally’s early life, her work and, most importantly, how her curious ability […]
REVIEW: Gundog (Royal Court Theatre) ★★★
Gundog is written by Simon Longman and directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone. Longman makes his debut at the Royal Court after taking part in the Royal Court Theatre’s Young Writer’s Programme in 2013. Gundog is part of the Royal Court’s Jerwood New Playwrights programme. Vicky Featherstone describes the play as, “a bleak […]
REVIEW: Hot Lips and Cold War (London Theatre Workshop) ★★
A weak script, focussing on the lives of JFK, Jackie Kennedy and Marilyn Monroe, ungently punctuated with curiously forgettable ballads; this is the confused musical from Lizzie Freeborn that attempts to re-tell the story of America’s First Family 1962-63. However, the central narrative – the Kennedy marriage – is consistently undermined by (and eventually lost […]
REVIEW: ALL OR NOTHING (Arts Theatre) ★★
After an extensive UK tour All or Nothing – The Mod Musical has been given a limited season in the West End at the Arts Theatre. The show – conceived by ex-Eastenders’ star Carol Harrison – is another crowd pleasing jukebox musical along the same lines as Sunny Afternoon (which featured the music of The Kinks), […]
REVIEW: MOONLOG (Chickenshed Studio Theatre)
Chickenshed in North London is hosting a month of monologues with four performances each evening in the Studio Theatre; two from known writers and two new pieces by new writers, new directors and new actors, a real Chickenshed experience. The evening begins with a piece from Alan Bennet’s Talking Heads. ‘Her Big Chance’ was performed […]
REVIEW: Long Day’s Journey into Night (Wyndham’s Theatre) ★★★
Your expectations are always going to be difficult to meet when a play not only boasts a stellar cast but is also described as ‘one of the finest American plays of the 20th century’. And as the theatrical heavyweights first take to the stage, the acting credentials are immediately obvious. Wonderfully wordy and poetic dialogue […]
REVIEW: HEDDA GABLER (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★★
Woking’s New Victoria Theatre is perhaps best known for its staging of popular main stream productions, However occasionally it delivers a real “Tour De Force” and Director Ivo Van Hove makes his debut with a radical new version of Ibsen’s most famous play. Hedda Gabler has just returned from her honeymoon with George Tesman, an […]
REVIEW: JULIUS CAESAR (Bridge Theatre) ★★★★★
The arrival of Nicholas Hytner’s interpretation of Shakespeare’s ‘Julius Caesar’ has been highly anticipated. The classic historical tale of autocracy, treachery and mutiny is no easy challenge, particularly with the news that it was a promenade staging with audience involvement throughout, however it is one that is faced head on and smashed into a million […]
REVIEW: MADONNA OR WHORE? (VAULT Festival) ★★★★
THE MADONNA WHORE COMPLEX. THE SONGS OF MADONNA. The premise of ‘Madonna Or Whore?’ is an appealing one if you are attracted to both pop philosophy and the hits of the Italian American diva herself. It’s presented as part of the Vault Festival, with over three hundred new shows running from January 24th to March […]
REVIEW: THE UNGRATEFUL BIPED (White Bear Theatre) ★★★
Modern society blasts a lot of opinions into vast empty space: Via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube… Cue the Underground Man, who, as adapted and portrayed by Philip Goodhew, records his video blog in a dingy London flat. After a pretty unsuccessful 40+ years on this planet, always at the sidelines, never part of ‘the group’, he […]