REVIEW: Flesh and Bone (Pleasance Dome) ★★★★★
Flesh and Bone is a new play written in 2016 by Elliot Warren and co-created with Olivia Brady. This is the first show from Warren and Brady’s Unpolished Theatre, founded last year by the recent drama school graduates. The play is set in a tower block in East London and tells the tale of five […]
REVIEW: Black Mountain (Roundabout @ Summerhall) ★★★★
Black Mountain by award winning writer Brad Birch is a sinister thriller about relationships, betrayal and revenge produced by Paines Plough, Theatr Clwyd and Orange Tree Theatre. Rebecca and Paul have come to a remote cottage to try to mend their relationship following an unspoken incident. They are tense and overly polite, tiptoeing around each […]
REVIEW: 13 THE MUSICAL (Ambassadors Theatre) ★★★★
After several successful shows, The British Theatre Academy are back in London at the Ambassadors Theatre with ’13 The Musical’. The show with music and lyrics by Jason Robert Brown (The Last Five Years, Parade, Songs For A New World) was originally performed on Broadway with a cast no older than the titles age- even […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]