REVIEW: THE KING AND I (upcoming cinema release) ★★★★★
Barlett Sher’s revival of Rogers & Hammerstein’s The King and I has played at the Lincoln Centre, opened on Broadway in 2015, and wowed UK audiences this year at the Palladium. Though the curtain has come down on the London Palladium’s acclaimed production, those who missed out on London’s hottest ticket still have a chance […]
REVIEW: Pinter Three / Pinter Four (Harold Pinter Theatre) ★★★
Disconnection is the connecting theme of the third and fourth instalments of the Jamie Lloyd Company’s continuing presentation of all of Pinter’s one act plays. Pinter Three and Four gives us an insight into the late Nobel Prize-winning writer’s influences and characteristic tropes, as well as his most irritating tics. These selections are not his […]
REVIEW: The Pit and the Pendulum (Omnibus Theatre) ★★★
This innovative take on the Edgar Allen Poe classic transfers the action to contemporary Tehran as an Iranian political dissident tries to come to terms with the sensory deprivation of her solitary confinement. Afsaneh Dehrouyeh plays the unnamed woman who has been imprisoned for removing her hijab in a public place as part of a […]
REVIEW: A Pupil (Park Theatre) ★★★★
Park Theatre hosts the world premiere of A Pupil, a new play by Evening Standard Award nominated writer Jesse Briton, exploring music, success and friendship through the unlikely connection of a young aspiring musician and a once world famous violinist. The action is set in a run down bedsit where Ye is preparing to end […]
REVIEW: Drowned or Saved? (Tristian Bates Theatre) ★★★★
Drowned or Saved is a new play by first time playwright Geoffrey Williams playing at Tristan Bates Theatre. Williams has taken on the challenge of presenting the work of holocaust survivor and revolutionary thinker, Primo Levi, in an attempt to share Levi’s message of humanity, compassion and perseverance. Primo Levi has become recognised around the […]
REVIEW: Don Quixote (Garrick Theatre) ★★★
This Royal Shakespeare Company production is based on the novel by Miguel de Cervantes, published in two parts in 1605 and 1615, telling the story of Don Quixote de la Mancha, a noble man who decides to bring the age of chivalry back to Spain. He embarks on a quest to become a knight errant […]
REVIEW: EVERYBODY’S TALKING ABOUT JAMIE (Apollo Theatre) ★★★
Based on the BBC Three documentary ‘Jamie: Drag Queen at 16’, ‘Everybody’s Talking About Jamie’ is a musical version of his story, which celebrated it’s one year birthday at the Apollo theatre this week. Culminating in Jamie’s school prom, which he attends in a dress, the show charts Jamie’s struggle towards self acceptance and the reactions […]
REVIEW: BURGERZ (Hackney Showroom) ★★★★
Travis Alabanza comes across as an introverted activist – the term being paradoxical and so very illustrative of the call for altruism their show represents. In a world blistered with prejudice, BURGERZ arrests the audience from the hellish fever dream of daily violence and discrimination we all live in; the world which has caused our […]
REVIEW: Miss Saigon (Sunderland Empire) ★★★★
The heat is on as Miss Saigon lands at the Sunderland Empire for just under a month. Produced by Cameron Mackintosh, directed by Laurence Connor and with music and lyrics by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Alain Boublil, Miss Saigon – a reworking of Puccini’s Madame Butterfly – started life at the Theatre Royal Drury Lane in […]
REVIEW: Pickle Jar (Soho Theatre) ★★★★
Pickle Jar is the debut play written and performed by Maddie Rice. It has come to Soho Theatre following a well received run at Edinburgh Fringe. This one-woman show follows a young teacher trying to shape the minds of her class of teenage girls while struggling with adult life herself. The story talks of stranger […]