REVIEW: TWELFTH NIGHT (National Theatre) ★★★★
The National Theatre brings a modern-chic version of The Tempest to the stage Chaotic capers and absurd romantic misconceptions in Illyria. The power house that is the National Theatre, plays a modern-chic interpretation of Shakespeare’s classic comedy Twelfth Night. Simon Godwin directs this production, and along with his impeccable cast, manage to wring out every […]
REVIEW: THE GIRLS (Phoenix Theatre) ★★★★
Take That front man Gary Barlow gets the girls out at the theatre, in his new musical The Girls In case you hadn’t heard, The Girls is the latest musical to be written by Take That veteran, Gary Barlow. The Girls opened this week at the Phoenix Theatre and there was quite a commotion when […]
REVIEW: THE SORROWS OF SATAN (Tristan Bates Theatre) ★★★★
Would you resist fame, riches and love if all you had to do was accept the offer? Despairingly poor playwright Geoffrey Tempest (Simon Willmont) owns nothing but the clothes he is wearing and the script of his musical play “The Sorrows of Satan”, based on the story of Faust. He skulks his way to a […]
REVIEW: THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG (The Lighthouse, Poole) ★★★★
Some plays make the audience smile, others even manage to draw out a chuckle, but THE PLAY THAT GOES WRONG had its audience hooting with laughter and tearing up with its dangerously well-designed disasters. After the BBC TV production of PETER PAN GOES WRONG was aired following its filming in front of a live studio […]
REVIEW: LA VOIX – Red Hot Globe Trot (Crazy Coqs) ★★★★★
La Voix is a divine, sophisticated drag artist with bright red hair and a body that is the best money can buy. She was a finalist in Britain’s Got Talent and has even appeared in the Ab Fab Movie. She also came second in Ru Paul’s Drag Race! La Voix is a very talented mimic […]
REVIEW: THE WILD PARTY (The Other Palace) ★★★★
Based on the 1928 Joseph Moncure March poem of the same name, Michael John LaChiusa and George C. Wolfe’s The Wild Party makes its UK premiere at The Other Palace. Formerly the St James Theatre, The Wild Party also marks the first production at Andrew Lloyd Webber’s The Other Palace. When the poem was first […]
REVIEW: This Must Be The Place (The Vaults) ★★★★
This Must Be The Place, written by Brad Birch and Kenneth Emson, was first performed at Latitude Festival in 2016. It now transfers to Vault Festival in London for five nights. Four actors wait on stage as the audience file into the small damp vault space with trains rumbling overhead. They smile and make eye […]
REVIEW: THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE (Liverpool Empire) ★★★
Despite its thoroughly modern title, Thoroughly Modern Millie is a good old-fashioned throw back to a simpler time in musical theatre, with a feel of Singin’ In The Rain and 42nd Street. Set in 1922, Millie Dillmount leaves her small town home in Kansas for the Big Apple on her quest to become a modern […]
REVIEW: THIS IS NOT CULTURALLY SIGNIFICANT (The Vaults) ★★★★★
Adam Scott-Rawley has a great body. This is the observation of my companion while we wait for This Is Not Culturally Significant to begin. We’re actually trying to avoid looking at his body, as he stands naked and unashamed onstage, but we’re also attempting to appear cool and unembarrassed so we can’t avert our gaze […]
REVIEW: CORNWALL VS CHINA (The Vaults) ★★
Cornwall vs China is written by Daniel Hallissey and directed by Danny Wainwright. Their previous collaboration, Dracula had five star reviews at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, followed by a successful transfer to the King’s Head Theatre in London. They’re hoping to follow that with a comedy set in a world where Cornwall has voted to […]