REVIEW: SCREWED (Theatre 503)
Screwed is the debut play from Kathryn O’Reilly, directed by Sarah Meadows , making its world premiere at Theatre503 in Battersea. “Live for the day – that’s us”. Luce and Charlene are the stars of this show. In their thirties, they drink, play, and party hard in between shifts at the metal factory where they […]
REVIEW: BUGSY MALONE (Lyric Hammersmith)
After closing at the Lyric in August 2015, Alan Parker’s classic Bugsy Malone returns with a huge bang to London! The colourful show sets new heights and standards for the future West End stars in this dazzling production. The story is brought to life from the 1976 film that starred Jodie Foster and Bonnie Langford. […]
REVIEW: UGLY LOVELY (Old Red Lion Theatre)
“All we’ve got is Swansea. You haven’t got nowhere else.” Dylan Thomas described his home town of Swansea as “an ugly, lovely town, crawling, sprawling, by the side of a long and splendid curving shore”. Taking Thomas’s words for the title, Ffion Jones’s play shows us a darker side of life by the seaside, closer […]
REVIEW: CHESTER TUFFNUT (Polka Theatre)
Chester Tuffnut is a woodland mole who loves adventures. He is always on the look out for someone to go on an adventure with but most of the other animals aren’t as energetic as he is. The moral of the story is that your friends are important and sometimes just stepping back and enjoying life […]
REVIEW: VELMA CELLI (The Pheasantry)
Velma Celli is a well known name on the theatre scene. The alter-ego of West End performer Ian Stroughair (Rent/Chicago), the character of Velma has been developed over the years as a high class cabaret drag act. As part of last weekend’s Gay Pride celebrations, Velma played a one-off show at Chelsea’s Pheasantry Theatre and […]
REVIEW: Dinosaur Park (The Jurassic Parody) (Wilton’s Music Hall)
Jurassic Park, one of the most visually impressive and instantly recognisable films of the last 30 years is torn apart, interwoven with a tale of family strife and restitched into an energetic spoof in Dinosaur Park (The Jurassic Parody). The latest work from Superbolt Theatre touches down in Wilton’s Music Hall having completed a UK […]
Gobsmacked! The A Capella Musical (Udderbelly Festival)
After a fantastic run at Edinburgh Fringe 2015, Gobsmacked! takes on London with an hour of mash ups, beatboxing, humour and what can only be described as technical singing brilliance. Made up of six singers and a world champion beatboxer- quirky show Gobsmacked! is sure to have you smiling and grooving all the way through. […]
REVIEW: GREY MAN (Theatre 503)
Grey Man is a story about stories. It explores how we tell them and why, and the significance they take on, as our perspective changes. This experimental new play from Lulu Raczka is on at Theatre503, where the tiny space becomes ever more claustrophobic as the power of the stories takes hold. Raczka’s 30-minute monologue […]
REVIEW: CIRCA (Vaults Theatre)
In Pride week it seemed only fitting that Tom Radcliffe’s show Circa has been staged in the wonderfully eclectic Vaults Theatre in Waterloo. Following a man’s (there are no names) experience of being gay, from first fumblings with school friends to Grindr hook ups, the show attempts to show the struggle of overcoming the difficulties […]
REVIEW: MACBETH (Wimbledon Studio Theatre)
There are many ways in which to portray the character of Macbeth. Do we want the audience to sympathise, hate or pity? Whose side should they choose and how should they feel when they leave the theatre? Arrows and Traps are renowned for telling famous stories in different ways, shocking and surprising the audience with […]