REVIEW: ORIGINAL DEATH RABBIT (Jermyn Street Theatre) ★★★
Rose Heiney’s monologue performed by Kimberley Nixon as the eponymous Death Rabbit offers a warning for those whose lives are dominated by social media, where a “like” can briefly give you a false idea of being the most important person in the world but where an anonymous adverse comment can prompt a disproportionate feeling of […]
REVIEW: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS (New Diorama Theatre) ★★★★
Isley Lynn’s unusual take on the HG Wells science-fiction classic The War Of The Worlds comes without any Martians but instead focuses of the mythology around Orson Welles’ 1938 radio broadcast and links this to the supposedly modern phenonium of ‘fake news’. The team from Rhum and Clay then weave the 1930s story with a […]
REVIEW: AN ENEMY OF THE PEOPLE (The Union Theatre) ★★★
Phil Willmott‘s three play season at The Union Theatre under the title ‘Enemies of the People‘ has opened with Arthur Miller‘s 1950’s adaption of Henri Ibsen‘s 1882 play set in Norway called ‘An Enemy of the People‘. As Willmott did last year so brilliantly, when he moved the timing of The Cherry Orchard to post […]
REVIEW: MOTOWN THE MUSICAL (The Bristol Hippodrome) ★★★
More than 60 truncated hits feature in ‘Motown the Musical’, the show written by Motown records founder Berry Gordy, which debuted on Broadway before arriving in London’s West End in 2016. I’m a big fan of the kind of straight forward fun offered by a jukebox musical, and a lover of Motown – so I […]
REVIEW: In Conversation with Graham Norton (The Hope Theatre) ★★★★
In Conversation with Graham Norton was first staged at The Hope Theatre in September 2018 for a short, sell out run. The debut play by Simon Perrott, directed by Joseph Winters, is back at The Hope Theatre for a longer run this month with Jay Parsons returning to the role of Mark for this one […]
REVIEW: SINATRA RAW (Live at Zedel) ★★★★★
Frank Sinatra died in 1998, his last performance was in 1995 and he gave many final farewell performances over his long career. Richard Shelton recreates a late night in 1971 around half way through his singing career when he performed in the Purple Room in Palm Springs to an audience of friends, as a warm […]
REVIEW: Pinter Five / Pinter Six (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★★
First and Last Things are brought to light in the newest instalments of Jamie Lloyd’s epochal season presenting all of Harold Pinter’s short plays. Pinter Five and Six take us from the unsettling claustrophobia of Pinter’s first play, 1957’s The Room, through to the satirical exasperation of his last, Celebration, from 2000. The complex violence […]
Review: TRUE WEST (Vaudeville Theatre) ★★★★
Unsettling dialogue and sibling rivalry reign supreme in acclaimed playwright Matthew Dunster‘s revival of Sam Shepard‘s iconic American play True West, which opened recently at the Vaudeville Theatre in the heart of London’s West End. The play stars Game of Thrones legend Kit Harrington as Austin, the successful screenplay writer who is burdened with existential […]
REVIEW: THE DAME (Park Theatre) ★★★★
“My armour, my war paint, the battle out there: it’s all I’ve ever known.” The Dame transfers to the Park Theatre after a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe. This one man show stars Peter Duncan and was written by his daughter, Katie. Katie was inspired by the idea of a lonely entertainer wandering along […]
REVIEW: CATS International Tour (Rai Theater) ★★★★
If you asked a room of theatre- goers what their favourite musical was – I doubt many (if any) would say it was CATS. It’s not got the fan-base that so many of the shows that are touring at the moment have. CATS is also one of Andrew Lloyd Webber‘s more tame shows, in comparison […]