Review: CATS, SELFIES AND THE SCATTERED MIND OF THE INCURABLE DREAMER (The Space) ★★
When going to review Cats, Selfies and the Scattered Mind of the Incurable Dreamer I was first struck by the unorthodox venue. Formerly a church to God, The Space is now a church to the arts – a humble and intimate theatre space. Set in the ‘Full Moon café’, the piece was a verbal collage […]
REVIEW: ROYAL HUNTER (Camden People’s Theatre) ★★★★★
Royal Hunter is a comical one woman show both written and performed by the warm, talented and funny Ellen Chivers. In the play, Ellen tells a (hopefully) fictitious account of her trying to pull Prince Harry. She firstly, surprisingly, manages to contact him on the social dating site, Tinder, and then even more surprisingly actually […]
REVIEW: HOW DOES THIS MAKE YOU FEEL? (Lion and Unicorn) ★★★★
This comedy play How Does That Make You Feel?, is being presented as part of the Camden Fringe and is a short play lasting only an hour. The venue is the Lion and Unicorn Theatre in Kentish Town, London, which is a lovely pub with an upstairs theatre catering for a maximum audience of only […]
REVIEW: LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★★
In a run down flower shop in one of the worst areas of town, Mr Mushnik has no choice but to shut up shop due to lack of business, putting Seymour and Audrey out of work. Thankfully Seymour has found an exotic plant which he has been nurturing and Audrey convinces Mushnik to try putting […]
REVIEW: SCOOBY DOO! LIVE MUSICAL MYSTERIES (London Palladium) ★★
What do we expect from a Children’s theatre show? Something to keep the kids entertained during the summer holidays that will give them something to look forward to? Or something to use as a bartering tool for the majority of the holidays (i.e. if you don’t eat all of your dinner we won’t go to see Scooby […]
REVIEW: GODSPELL (Upstairs At The Gatehouse) ★★
Stephen Swartz’s Godspell premiered in 1971 and since then has had numerous productions worldwide, including two major Broadway revivals. A favourite among community theatre groups and high schools, Swartz’s score for Godspell is one of the most-loved and recognisable in musical theatre and his song ‘Day by Day’ made it to number thirteen on the […]
REVIEW: THE JUNGLE BOOK (London Wonderground) ★★★★
The most celebrated of Rudyard Kipling’s works was given a much needed reboot earlier this year with impressive CGI animals and breath-taking landscapes aplenty. This summer Metta Theatre reweaves the tapestry again, spinning The Jungle Book into a social commentary that integrates ethnicities and backgrounds through a cast of street dancing, fast rapping, aerialist artistes. […]
REVIEW: CUT THROAT (London Irish Centre) ★★★★
Trip & Guts Theatre presents Jean-Philippe Baril Guerard’s provocative and award-winning play as part of the Camden Fringe Festival, in an English adaptation by Matt Cunningham. First performed in Montreal in 2014, Cut Throat explores the right to Freedom of Speech and its limits as defined by law and human decency. As we enter the […]
REVIEW: SIMON DAVID: VIRGIN (Hen and Chickens) ★★★★★
It’s not everyday you see a man who has the balls (pun intended) to perform just in a leotard at a pub in Islington on a Thursday night. Simon David then enters on stage. As he calls himself, ‘an unpopped cherry,’ Simon is determined to be the next big pop music sensation. Except there’s one […]
REVIEW: THE FELLOWSHIP (Hen and Chickens) ★★★★★
‘The Fellowship’ opens to the scene of a dimly-lit back room in an Oxford pub, with the sound effect of fire crackling in the hearth. Seconds later, in rushes the character of C.S. Lewis, beautifully dressed and with a faint air of nervousness about him. He is meeting fellow Oxford graduate Professor J.R.R. Tolkien, and […]