REVIEW: THERE WAS A LITTLE GIRL (Evelyn Hoskins live at Battersea Barge)
West End Wilma’s 2015 Rising Star award winner Evelyn Hoskins has been living up to her title in the past year, being critically acclaimed for playing the title role in Carrie the Musical at Southwark Playhouse, appearing in The Sound of Music Live on ITV and now in her one woman show ‘There Was […]
REVIEW: BORIS: WORLD KING (Trafalgar Studios 2)
Following a sold-out run at the 2015 Edinburgh Fringe, the satirical comedy Boris: World King arrives in London. As his days as Mayor of London are coming to an end, Boris Johnson thinks starring in a West End show might just be the ticket for his next career move, which is not necessarily Prime Minister […]
REVIEW: THE COMEDY ABOUT A BANK ROBBERY (Criterion Theatre)
From modest beginnings on the Fringe Theatre scene, to its West End (and soon to be Broadway) stardom, Mischief Theatre has kept us giggling. ‘The Play That Goes Wrong’ followed a small amateur dramatic group that couldn’t seem to get anything right. ‘Peter Pan Goes Wrong’ was the teams second outing, providing a similar idea […]
REVIEW: CLOSER (Udderbelly Festival)
Spring time in London sees the return of the upside down purple cow on Londons Southbank. The latest acrobatic ensemble out of Australia is CLOSER by Circa. Circa picks up some of the most talented circus performers and encourages them to tumble, twist, pivot, pull and ultimately, entertain. And entertain they do. Here, the usual […]
REVIEW: DARKNET (The Southwark Playhouse)
You are spying on me!” – “It is called sharing, Allen. Darknet, a collaboration between writer Rose Lewenstein and director Russell Bender takes us to a dystopian future where people share their most intimate and private details on social media network MyCloud and the value of their data decides their whole life. Bad news for […]
REVIEW: FUNNY GIRL (Savoy Theatre, 2016)
There’s something to be said about musicals based on true stories. It gives them another dimension, far removed from the glitzy stereotype people believe musicals to be. Fanny Brice was a born to Jewish Hungarian parents who’d emigrated to America and made a good life for themselves. She on the other hand favoured show business […]
REVIEW: ALL THAT FALL (Arts Theatre)
The soft dappling of sunlight through leafy branches as a pair of birds peck and preen in their nest overhead. A dusty country path and the gentle dance of the grass caught unaware by a sudden breeze. A roaring steam engine thundering headlong into an otherwise sleepy town. Out of Joint’s fantastic production of All […]
REVIEW: TELL ME ON A SUNDAY (New Wimbledon Theatre)
Tell Me On A Sunday is one of those peculiar shows that seems to change a little every time it is staged. Originally recorded as a television special in 1980, starring Marti Webb, the show spawned a number 2 album in the charts and opened in London’s West End in 1982 as a two part […]
REVIEW: UNDEREXPOSED (The Old Red Lion Theatre)
UNDEREXPOSED entails a series of 9 short plays that are framed by the idea of exploring and challenging existing stereotypes, which do not get as much attention because they are not quite as crass as those that do. We all have preconceived ideas about certain groups of people, thinking that they tend to have certain […]
REVIEW: LOVE LIES (Hope Theatre)
LOVE LIES is the latest offering from LEMAD theatre following their sell out show, SNAPSHOTS, at the Rosemary Branch in May 2015. Formed in 2015, LEMAD theatre are Liz Mead, Elizabeth Rutherford-Johnson, Mari Lloyd, MaryAnn Pashigian and Daphne Peña who met on a play writing course. Love Lies is a collection of short plays written […]