REVIEW: The Welkin (National Theatre, Lyttelton) ★★★
The Welkin is a new play by Lucy Kirkwood and directed by James Macdonald. The world premiere was held at the National Theatre this week and it will be broadcast in cinemas on 21 May with NT Live. Kirkwood has set the play in a rural community on the borders of Norfolk and Suffolk in 1759 […]
REVIEW: The Canary and The Crow (Arcola Theatre) ★★★★
The Canary and the Crow, playing at the Arcola Theatre in London, is a play about Daniel Ward‘s experiences as a young schoolboy, earning a scholarship to an exclusive grammar school where he was one of only 2 black pupils in his school year. The play is a multi-layered piece of theatre about the realities of […]
REVIEW: Luzia (Cirque du Soleil) ★★★★
There’s a trip to the circus, but then there’s Cirque du Soleil – an extraordinary, magical spectacular that will make you gasp, cringe and cheer! For this latest production, the focus is on Mexico and the natural environment. Water, wind, plants and creatures, surprise the audience with wondrous creations that flow seamlessly from scene to […]
EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE (Apollo Theatre) ★★★★
“I’m offending, I’m a trending, gender-bending, gender-blending, gender-pending, gender-ending and transcending work of art.” Jamie New is a boy from Sheffield, with big dreams and an even bigger personality to boot. In the height of his school years and in the build up to his senior prom, Jamie decides to truly reflect himself, he will […]
REVIEW: Kinky Boots (Cinema Broadcast) ★★★★
If you missed, like I did, the West End production of Kinky Boots when it ran at the Adelphi Theatre from September 2015 to January 2019 (for over 1400 performances), there is a unique opportunity to see why this wonderful musical gathered so many award nominations. A live filmed production of the show is being […]
REVIEW: COPS (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★
Tony Tortora‘s play Cops captures a long forgotten time with carefully drawn contrasting characters, a background of mobsters and corruption and dated attitudes that have evolved over the last sixty years. It moves at a snail’s pace as the characters’ home truths are slowly revealed during three painstakingly slow stakeouts. As a result, one feels […]
REVIEW: CURTAINS (New Wimbledon Theatre) ★★★★★
Who doesn’t love a whodunnit? Whoever says they don’t is clearly lying. Nobody, I repeat, nobody is above a well-written Christie-esque whodunnit. Who doesn’t want to get to know each of the characters and trust absolutely none of them, whilst trying to be a super-sleuth and notice the red herrings and carefully dotted clues? We […]
REVIEW: Rags (Park Theatre) ★★★
The stories of the immigrant experience into America in the early 20th century have been well mined by the film industry, but less so in the theatre. Rags presents the story of Rebecca, a Russian Jew, who has fled to America with her young son, David, after the death of her husband and it follows […]
REVIEW: ONCE (Fairfield Halls) ★★★
A new touring production of the hit musical ‘Once’ brings an experienced leading pair to sing their way through this tale of Irish culture and unrequited love that is sure to repeat the success of previous versions. The recently refurbished Fairfield Halls hosts the first leg of this UK tour of the musical, based on […]
REVIEW: Peter Pan Goes Wrong (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★★★
Greetings Readers! This week I made my way on a dark and dismal night to Woking and the New Victoria Theatre to review Peter Pan Goes Wrong. We hadn’t even settled into our seats before the “director” Chris Bean (played by Tom Babbage), walked into the stalls and passed over the audiences heads a very […]