REVIEW: OUT THERE (Union Theatre) ★★★
Following on from the 2012 success of Loserville the Musical at the Garrick Theatre and subsequent revival last year at the Union Theatre, James Bourne and Elliot Davis now present their latest musical Out There at the brand new Union Theatre in Southwark. Logan Carter is a young tearaway on the run from the police. […]
REVIEW: THE BRIDES OF BLUEBEARD (Camden People’s Theatre) ★★★★★
The Brides of Bluebeard is both written and performed by The Ruby Dolls. For the entirety of the play they are each dressed in white wedding dresses, the style of which gives you a clue as to which period the unfortunate bride was married and subsequently murdered. The Ruby Dolls comprise four beautiful sassy young […]
REVIEW: KENNY MORGAN (Arcola Theatre) ★★★★
Terence Rattigan’s play The Deep Blue Sea, which is currently enjoying a successful run at the National Theatre, is starkly autobiographical, inspired by the suicide of actor Kenny Morgan. Morgan was Rattigan’s secret lover for almost ten years before he left Rattigan for Alec Lennox, a younger actor. When Morgan saw his life spiralling out […]
REVIEW: THE HIRED MAN (Cadogan Hall) ★★★★★
On Friday evening, for one night only, once again, the story of The Hired Man came to life. The show was perfectly cast with a lineup of incredibly talented actors. John Owen Jones sings the role of John Tallentire gorgeously, and I think it is the best I have ever heard him. He performs the […]
REVIEW: DREAMPLAY (The Vaults) ★★★
Immersive theatre is rapidly becoming more and more popular in the theatrical world, and The Vaults is a space that is helping to accommodate more and more of this style of theatre, in this instance Baz Productions’ Dreamplay. Now, the show isn’t a coherent story, but I think this was the desired effect, as it […]
REVIEW: CALM DOWN DEAR: A FESTIVAL OF FEMINISM (Camden People’s Theatre)
Calm Down Dear comprises two separate but very different events on the theme of personal, sometimes painful issues. They are Blush and The Absolute Truth About Absolutely Everything. Blush, was a two hander concerning one of the most relevant subjects of the present day, revenge porn. It’s effect on it’s victims, it’s tragedy and it’s […]
REVIEW: GLASGOW GIRLS (Theatre Royal Stratford East) ★★★★
In 2010 director Cora Bissett saw a documentary called ‘Tales From the Edge’ and it was this that first introduced her to the ‘Glasgow Girls’; an incredibly tenacious and loyal bunch of schoolgirls who, alongside members of their close knit community, initially fought to stop one of their friends being deported back to Kosovo and […]
REVIEW: SID (Arts Theatre) ★★★★★
Before the play begins, we are serenaded by a backing audio of Jeremy Kyle’s YouTube channel excerpts that are confrontational, amusing, but also rather tragic too – it later becomes clear that this audio is purposefully setting the tone for the play. ‘Sid’, written by acclaimed playwright Leon Fleming, is based on the infamous punk […]
REVIEW: BOY STROKE GIRL (Etcetera Theatre) ★★★★
Can you fall in love with someone if you don’t know their gender? That’s the question posed in Boy Stroke Girl when Peter meets the sexually ambiguous Blue. The play is written and directed by Ian Dixon Potter and has been performed at Brighton Fringe and Tristan Bates Theatre before coming to Etcetera Theatre in […]
REVIEW: THE WOMAN IN BLACK (Richmond Theatre) ★★★
The Woman in Black is a quintessential gothic horror featuring all the usual tropes of the genre – a bleak rural location, a haunted house, engulfing mist, a funeral, a graveyard, a mysterious family tragedy, an empty, self perpetuating rocking chair and the obligatory haunting chimes of an old music box, set into motion by […]