The Female Gaze and Other Stories (Cockpit Theatre) ★★★★
Rich Creative present a new feminist scratch night, aiming to deliver a different theme each time with an array of separate stories roughly 10-15 minutes long apiece, all connected by a common theme: in this case, ‘the female gaze’. This particular performance was entitled: ‘Volume 1: The Sexual Odyssey’, and consisted of seven pieces. ‘The […]
REVIEW: SAM BAILEY (Orchard Theatre) ★★★★
2013 X Factor winner Sam Bailey released her second album Sing My Heart Out in September 2016 and is half way through an extensive UK tour, promoting the album and performing live to her fans. I went along to check out the show on Sam’s first of two nights in her home town of Dartford […]
REVIEW: THE CAUCASIAN CHALK CIRCLE (Greenwich Theatre) ★★★★
Brecht was a German Marxist playwright and poet. He died in 1956 at the comparatively young age of 58 years, having survived the Second World War. He believed that a play should not cause the spectator to identify emotionally with the characters or action before them, but should instead provoke rational self-reflection and a critical […]
REVIEW: RUN (The Bunker) ★★★
Run is the dramatic story of a seventeen year old Jewish gay youth, Yonni. His forceful, dominating mother, Devorah, embarrasses him in front of his school friends. Not a good precursor to the summer holidays. But then, in the playground, he meets Adam and everything is suddenly different. There is a mutual attraction between them and […]
REVIEW: SOUSATZKA (Elgin Theatre) ★★★
The world premiere of Sousatzka is currently playing in Toronto, Canada, ahead of a planned stint on Broadway in October 2017. Try-out runs like this are much more common in America and Canada than in the UK and gives show the opportunity to see what works and what doesn’t on stage and make changes along […]
REVIEW: DOG ENDS (Tabard Theatre) ★★★★★
A truly hilarious dark comedy, full of fun suspense and Max Bygraves’ music Dog Ends is about three generations of a family. Sensible Julian and soppy Danielle, played by the excellent Alex Mann and delicious Charlotte Peak who are a young married couple. There is also Julian’s parents George and Beatrice and George’s Dad who is […]
REVIEW: DONT WAKE THE DAMP (Soho Theatre) ★★★★
I’m not 100% sure what I thought I was going to be watching when I turned up at the Soho theatre on a drizzly night, but I can guarantee that I certainly wasn’t expecting what Kill The Beast had created. Their new show Don’t Wake the Damp took me completely off guard but by gum […]
REVIEW: RENT (Curve Leicester) ★★★★★
Five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, five hundred twenty-five thousand journeys to plan, five hundred twenty-five thousand six hundred minutes, how do you measure the life of a woman or a man? Rent is by far, one of my all-time favourite musicals. It is for that reason that I didn’t hold high hopes for […]
REVIEW: ADAM & EVE….AND STEVE (Kings Head Theatre) ★★★★
Adam & Eve…And Steve is an easy-going, fun, new comedy musical, which has already enjoyed previous success at both the Hollywood Fringe and Edinburgh Festival Fringe. For the next five weeks, it is being produced by King’s Head Theatre in association with Flying Entertainment and AES. The show has a small cast – but given […]
REVIEW: BARRED FREEDOM (Cockpit Theatre) ★★★
1970’s Britain. In a cramped prison cell sit two criminals isolated from the rest of the world. Barred Freedom, a new piece of writing by Eugine Ambrosse with two different casts comes to one of London’s more hidden spaces- The Cockpit Theatre. The script is set to be gender neutral, with the two casts alternating […]