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 […]
REVIEW: THE PRETEND MEN: POLICE COPS (Pleasance Dome) ★★★★★
Word of mouth is a wonderful thing within the world of theatre and this show was recommended to me by countless friends before I had even arrived in Edinburgh. A quick research into the show and the company revealed them to be winners of numerous awards, including Stage Award for Acting Excellence 2015, as well […]
REVIEW: THE BURNT PART BOYS (Park Theatre) ★★★★
The Burnt Part Boys is set in West Virginia, in the early 1960’s, ten years after the mines collapsed and killed many people. This is the story of those left behind and how they came to terms with their loss (or in some cases didn’t). Jake and Chet are trying to keep their heads above […]
REVIEW: THE GAME’S AFOOT – A SHERLOCK HOLMES WHODUNNIT? (Madame Tussauds) ★★★★
Les Enfants Terribles present their latest interactive show THE GAME’S AFOOT at Madame Tussauds following the success of Alice’s Adventures Underground and ahead of the upcoming DINNER AT THE TWITS which opens at the Vaults Festival next month. Armed with a notepad and pencil, a suspect sheet, a map and a special clue card, the […]
REVIEW: BEACH HUNKS: VERY HANDSOME (Laughing Horse) ★★★★
Imagine my surprise this Edinburgh Fringe when I somehow managed to visit Scotland in the only week that had some sunshine… And what better show to get me into the summer mood than the Beach Hunks, with their new show ‘Very Handsome’ – performed as part of Free Fringe in Laughing Horse @ The News […]
REVIEW: TWIX (Canal Cafe) ★★★★
Two actors are bathed in shadow onstage as the audience takes their seats, with the distant sound effects of traffic filling the theatre, to set the city scene. The lights go up to reveal two young men. We have Henry, a university student who expects rather a lot from himself both physically and academically, anxiously […]
REVIEW: EUROBEAT (Pleasance Grand) ★★★★
Entering a stifling, but impressive Pleasance Grand on the opening night of Eurobeat, I had more apprehension than you could wave your complimentary Vatican City flag at! A musical based around the idea of Eurovision, set in the Republic of Moldova. Although a country with a population around the same as Manchester, it is still […]
REVIEW: THE CHEMSEX MONOLOGUES (Kings Head Theatre) ★★★★
The Chemsex Monologues was written by Patrick Cash after he had been researching the idea of Chemsex for an article he was writing and found there was very much just one side people were looking at it. Unsafe sex amongst gay men, whilst they are high on drugs. But what about the other side of […]