REVIEW: CLICKBAIT (Theatre 503)
Today everybody is a paparazzo. And it is not even necessary to be a celebrity to find your most embarrassing moments on Facebook or YouTube – although it helps. Nicola Barker has a problem. After attending a group sex party whilst holidaying in Ibiza, she is informed that her sexual excesses have been filmed and […]
REVIEW: THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (Trafalgar Studios)
Getting older is inevitable. While plastic surgeons and Hollywood celebrities have been trying to reverse the effects of time on the body for years, the aging process is something that effects everyone. Well, almost everyone. Everyone but two. Who are these two people you ask? Peter Pan and Dorian Gray. Both fictional. The aging process […]
REVIEW: AFTER THE BLUE (Jermyn Street Theatre)
Two sisters inhabit a house near a Cornish seaside town. Lauren is in her 20s, Ursy is 14. Their stepfather Bob disappeared over a year ago and now their stepmother Heather has been missing for three weeks. Neither of them seems very worried about her disappearance. Instead they are looking forward to the visit of […]
REVIEW: SHREK (New Wimbledon Theatre)
Musicals based on films are a dime a dozen these days, but Shrek the Musical proves itself to be a great night out for all the family. After being impressed with the West end production, I had feared that a scaled down touring production may be less impressive, but I didn’t feel like I was […]
REVIEW: PRIVATE LIVES (Churchill Theatre Bromley)
Private Lives is my absolute favourite Noël Coward play, full camp humour, frivolous behaviour and heaps of flamboyance, it is quintessentially Coward. However after seeing Jonathan Kent’s sensational revival several years ago with the charming Toby Stephen’s and fabulous Anna Chancellor, the bar was set pretty high for Tom Chambers and Laura Rogers in this […]
REVIEW: The Long Road South (King’s Head Theatre)
Set in Indiana in 1965 during the summer of the civil rights marches in the South, Paul Minx’s Offie-nominated drama takes us to the home of a white middle-class family and their two black domestic workers. Grace and Andre are planning to head South the next day to support the voting rights movement as soon […]
REVIEW: THIS WILL END BADLY (Southwark Playhouse)
This Will End Badly is breathtakingly ambitious in scope and expertly executed. Clive Judd’s gripping one-man play had a critically acclaimed run at the 2015 Edinburgh Festival Fringe before transferring to the Southwark Playhouse. It begins with actor Ben Whybrow alone on a sparse stage; vulnerable and isolated from the audience. He plays three men, […]
REVIEW: Big Brother Blitzkrieg (King’s Head Theatre)
Germany, 1908. A naïve young man receives a letter rejecting his application to study life drawing – again. Distraught, he reaches for his revolver and places it to his head…and so begins a bizarre piece of theatre following Adolf Hitler’s rise from outsider to charismatic demagogue. The Adolf in Big Brother Blitzkrieg wakes up in […]
REVIEW: JEKYLL AND HYDE (Cockpit Theatre)
The dark gothic tale of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde is set in a 1930s jazz club with a live pianist and singers. This new version of the well-known story is brought to the Cockpit by Blue Orange Theatre for a four week run. The play is ‘based on’ the novel by Robert […]
REVIEW: THRILL ME (Jermyn Street Theatre)
It is ironic that the Jermyn Street Theatre took the first option on the multi-award winning musical thriller by Stephen Dolginoff in 1999. Seventeen years and 125 productions later, Dolginoff’s musical about the “thrill killers” has finally arrived at the JST. One of Clarence Darrow’s most notorious cases, Nathan Leopold and Richard Loeb stood trial […]