REVIEW: Jericho’s Rose (The Hope Theatre) ★★
Lilac Yosiphon writes, co-directs and performs this autobiographical exploration of memory, identity and language at the Hope Theatre. Yosiphon uses a mix of narration, dialogue, movement, dance and music to draw parallels between her grandfather’s loss of identity caused by his Alzheimer’s disease and her loss of home caused by her nomadic existence as an […]
REVIEW: A Guide for the Homesick (Trafalgar Studio 2) ★★★
This is a play about the world getting worse. Camp and endearing aid worker Jeremy (Douglas Booth), who definitely isn’t gay, is on his way home from a stint in Uganda atoning for his white guilt when he misses his connecting flight and ends up in Teddy’s Amsterdam hotel room for a beer. Swaggering banker […]
REVIEW: Frankenstein (Sutton House) ★★★
Halloween season often brings out the classic and well-known horror stories and they don’t come much better known than Mary Shelly’s 200-year-old story of Victor Frankenstein and his creature. This presents a challenge in coming up with a fresh or interesting way of telling the tale and Tea Break Theatre have certainly created something different […]
REVIEW: The Priscilla Party Experience: The Cockatoo Club (Proud Cabaret) ★★
Proud announces itself as London’s newest super club, although I am not sure quite what criteria they are using to measure themselves! There appears to be quite a range of events taking place at the club, so it is not solely a cabaret venue, however The Cockatoo Club have taken over for one night to […]
REVIEW: The Trench (Southwark Playhouse) ★★★★
I first came across the theatre company Les Enfants Terribles when I attended Alice’s Adventures Underground at The Vaults. It was one of the most innovative, weird, hilarious and downright bonkers theatre performances I have ever seen and I loved every minute of it. Their latest production, The Trench at Southwark Playhouse could not be […]
REVIEW: Liza Pulman Sings Streisand (The Other Palace) ★★★★★
Liza Pulman delivers an evening of glorious entertainment with stories, funny anecdotes and a stunning 5-piece band while celebrating the carer and music of the diva Barbra Streisand at The Other Palace in Victoria. The first thing to acknowledge, which Pulman does herself at the beginning of the show, is that this is NOT a tribute […]
REVIEW: Dracula (Jack Studio) ★★★
Writer and director Ross McGregor returns to the Jack Studio in Brockley alongside the team from Arrows and Traps Theatre, with a creepy and atmospheric adaptation of Bram Stoker’s gothic horror classic Dracula. Anyone adapting Dracula is going to be travelling on a well-worn path, and needs to decide if they want to stick closely […]
REVIEW: othellomacbeth (Lyric Hammersmith) ★★
Shakespeare – shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Sadly you remind me of cold class rooms. I attended a school that force fed the pupils Shakespeare in a manner that would make a foie gras goose wince, the unsurprising result being that I have had no great love for the bard. Earlier this […]
REVIEW: Measure for Measure (Donmar Warehouse) ★★★
Josie Rourke, the soon to depart Artistic Director at the Donmar, has taken an innovative approach to staging Shakespeare’s take on sex, power and corruption. Rather than decide whether to set the play in an historical or contemporary setting Rourke does both, with the first half set in medieval Vienna and then the second act […]
Cilla The Musical (Curve Leicester) ★★
Following the death of the nation’s sweetheart in 2015, a critically acclaimed ITV biographical mini-series aired, which depicted Cilla Black’s rise to fame and her relationship with Bobby Willis. Kenwright’s stage production then followed suit, as an adaptation of aforementioned TV series. Rather than a morbid retelling of a person’s life after their death, Cilla […]