REVIEW: BIT OF SUNSHINE (Theatre 503) ★★★★
Bit of Sunshine is a one character play written by and featuring the ridiculously talented Nicole Zweiback. This play was the winner of the Best Play at the Lost Theatre One Act Festival, 2016. The play concerns a gifted teenager, Kira who has an ambition to attend Oxford University. However, the eating disorder from which […]
REVIEW: NEVER THE SAME (Bridewell Theatre) ★★★★
Lunchbox Theatre at The Bridewell Theatre offers 45 minute plays that you can fit in your lunch hour. NEVER THE SAME is the latest offering from Hatstand Productions, set up by childhood friends Lily Lowe-Myers and Robyn Cooper with the aim of creating works with strong, complex and entertaining female roles. Never The Same doesn’t disappoint. […]
REVIEW: WICKED 10th Anniversary (Apollo Victoria Theatre) ★★★★ (2016)
Last night WICKED celebrated ten years of performances in London with a special show at the Apollo Victoria Theatre. Previous members of the cast joined writer Stephen Schwartz on stage for the curtain call including Kerry Ellis, Louise Dearman, Gina Beck, Willemijn Verkaik and Savannah Stevenson. If you’re one of the few who hasn’t seen […]
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 […]