REVIEW: STRANGE THE ROAD (Hope Theatre) ★★
A sin city tale of gangsters, honour and love is presented in ‘Strange the Road’ playing at the Hope Theatre. The story revolves around ‘Frenchie’ (Joey Ellis) as he infatuates over a woman he can never have. ‘Verda’ (Andromeda Godfrey) a detached street wise waitress with a smart mouth begins a dangerous turn of events […]
REVIEW: DIRTY GREAT LOVE STORY (Arts Theatre) ★★
Can a one night stand last a lifetime? ‘Dirty Great Love Story’ playing at the Arts Theatre in London’s West End aims to answer that question through the ‘will they/wont they’ story of ‘Richard’ (Felix Scott) and ‘Katie’ (Ayesha Antoine). Presented completely in rhyme, a night of drunken passion blossoms into a bumbling and uncertain […]
REVIEW: BLOOD BROTHERS (The Lighthouse, Poole) ★★★★
Since her musical theatre debut as Mrs Johnstone in 1997, Lyn Paul has regularly reprised the role over the past twenty years. It is worth noting that despite being 67 years of age, she is still light on her feet and as vocally strong as all the the other younger actors onstage. Her slightly advanced […]
REVIEW: SALOME (Hoxton Hall) ★★★★★
Salome is beautifully staged with an amazing multinational cast. The story is transferred from biblical times to the bohemian atmosphere of 1930’s Europe, with music and costumes from that period. It all begins at King Herod’s birthday feast. The table, which runs the length of the auditorium, is covered with the best foods and wine. […]
REVIEW: Cautionary Tales for Daughters (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★★★
Presented by Tanya Holt and pianist Birgitta Kenyon (aka A Girl Called Fred) this song cycle is meant as advice and warning from mothers to their daughters. The show began as a personal project for Holt’s daughter Dotty, who is now 11 years old, and has evolved into a 90-minute cabaret with ideas and suggestions […]
REVIEW: HENRY V (Southwark Cathedral) ★★★★★
This is an exciting but original production, sometimes brutal, sometimes funny but always enthralling. The awesome Southwark Cathedral surroundings alone are worth the trip and the accompanying music is a delight. Marking the 600th anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt Along with the hundredth anniversary of the First World War this production is one to […]
REVIEW: ONLY BONES (Soho Theatre) ★★★★★
The late, great Gregory Hines apparently used to say that that you should be able to dance in a space about a metre square. It’s a captivating idea: that precision and technique are all-important and that wafting about in the luxury of space is somehow cheating. There are another couple of good reasons to confine […]
REVIEW: The Glass Menagerie (Duke of York’s Theatre) ★★★★
“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.” The Glass Menagerie is the first major work of Tennessee Williams’s golden period in the 1940s and 50s that included A Streetcar Named Desire and Cat on a Hot […]
REVIEW: NECESSITY (Bread & Roses Theatre) ★★★
Necessity is a new play written and directed by Paul Macauley. Following a sell-out run at the Brighton Fringe in May 2016, it gets a London premiere at Bread and Roses Theatre in Clapham, produced by Broken Silence Theatre, Brighton’s leading new writing theatre company. Inspired by true events, Necessity is set against the backdrop […]
REVIEW: THEY BUILT IT. NO ONE CAME (Greenwich Theatre) ★★★★
They Built It. No One Came is a new play from Fledgling Theatre Company, written by Callum Cameron. It’s inspired by the true story of two men, Christian and Johannes, who felt disillusioned with their lives in Salt Lake City and founded a brand new commune out in the wilderness. They waited patiently for their […]