REVIEW: DRAG – Live in Soho! (Jack Solomon’s Club) ★★★★
Saturday night I went to see performances from HERR, Ophelia Love, Cheryl Hole, Kitty Scott Claus, Tayce and Ashley Foxx At the ‘Live In Soho’ show at Jack Solomon’s, produced by Tuckshop. I’ve seen these queens perform before, but I felt they had found the next level this time. If you’re looking for a bar […]
REVIEW: Romance Romance (Above the Stag Theatre) ★★★★
Romance Romance is split into two parts, connected only by the common theme of – you guessed it – love. Barry Harman‘s script is an amalgamation of two existing stories that he found whilst browsing in a bookstore. Along with a team of talented creatives, he decided to reimagine the characters as homosexuals and bring […]
REVIEW: Billy Bishop Goes To War (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★★
First produced in 1978, John MacLachlan Gray and Eric Peterson’s Billy Bishop Goes to War is the most widely staged musical play in Canadian theatre. The two-man play dramatizes the life of Billy Bishop who transforms from failing Canadian military college student to the fighter pilot of his generation and a somewhat reluctant war hero. […]
REVIEW: ADMISSIONS (Trafalgar Studios) ★★★
White guilt, privilege and discrimination all come under the microscope in Joshua Harmon‘s Admissions. The play centres around Sherri (Alex Kingston), the Head of Admissions at an elite American private school, fighting to diversify the student body. The problem comes when her son Charlie (Ben Edelman) doesn’t get into his university of choice, but his […]
REVIEW: Model Behaviour (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★
Model Behaviour comes to Pleasance Theatre following sold out runs at Edinburgh Fringe 2018 and a London preview at the Arcola. This one woman show gives an insight into the darker corners of the glamorous world of fashion, told through the eyes of a young model making her way in the industry. The all female production […]
REVIEW: Madagascar The Musical (New Victoria Theatre) ★★★★
You’ve Got to Move It, Move It…..to the New Victoria Theatre…Hurry! It’s not often that I have to try and swap my reviewing head, but this was definitely one of those times when I went to see Madagascar the Musical, I have had to take off my adult head and plonk on my child’s head […]
REVIEW: SIX (Arts Theatre) ★★★★★
Divorced. Beheaded. Died. Divorced. Beheaded. Survived. Perhaps one of the most (in)famous kings there ever was, Henry VIII is remembered for many things. However, Brits in particular know him for his six wives. We all have our favourites (Anne Boleyn has always been a heroine of mine… and yes I probably would’ve had my head […]
REVIEW: TRIAL BY LAUGHTER (Milton Keynes Theatre) ★★★
In an era of ‘fake news’, the importance of the free press becomes paramount. In some countries, writers are still persecuted for telling the truth and even in the western world, satirists receive death threats and suspect parcels on many occasions. Trial by Laughter by Ian Hislop and Nick Newman tells the story of William […]
REVIEW: THE TWILIGHT ZONE (Ambassador’s Theatre) ★★★
“Leave reality at the door.” Fresh from a sell-out run at the Almeida Theatre, The Twilight Zone has now arrived on London’s West End at the Ambassador’s Theatre. Adapted by Anne Washburn and directed by Richard Jones, the production of the cult CBS television series is a show that aims to convey the blurred lines […]
REVIEW: CIRCA (Old Red Lion Theatre) ★★
In 1897 Arthur Schnitzler wrote the controversial play La Ronde about the sexual morals of the different classes of society, in what must have been a provocative play for the time as it was not performed until 1920. The play’s structure is ten interlocking scenes, of two characters, and features ten characters in all. Over […]