John Partridge
Wilma’s Rating [rating=5] John Partridge has taken a week off from appearing in the hit west end show A Chorus Line to perform his own show at London’s swanky Hippodrome Casino cabaret venue. The fabulously camp actor spent two hours taking the crowd through some well known songs from Dames and Dudes through time, […]
Jane Eyre
Rating [rating=5] Reviewed by Michaela Clement Hayes After a troubled childhood devoid of love, a young woman takes the post of governess in a big old house. She soon falls in love with the owner, but he is not all that he seems and behind the corridors lurks a dark secret that threatens to […]
Between Ten and Six
Rating [rating=3] Reviewed by Michaela Clement Hayes A flat in North London. A ticking clock. Pea stew. Snap. Death. Socially awkward Charlie (Chris Mayo who also wrote the play) has finally found somewhere to live and at first look it seems ideal, but is his live-in landlord Ed (Owen Llewelyn) really what he […]
The Life of Stuff
Wilma’s Rating [rating=3] The Life Of Stuff is a dirty, gritty play that is not for the faint hearted. Performed at Theatre 503 (above the Latchmere pub in Clapham Juction) this intense piece of theatre is heightened by the smallest stage I have ever seen. It can’t have been more than 2×2 metres and […]
Once
Wilmas Rating [rating=4] Ever since I saw the film Once, I have been trying to give the DVD away to anyone and everyone who visits my house. So far, no luck and it is still cluttering up my home (somewhere). Obviously I wasn’t a fan and so I was not convinced that Once the musical […]
Streets: A New Kind of Musical
Rating [rating=4] Reviewed by Tony Peters It’s something of a bold claim calling your play “a new kind of musical”. But while the idea of a disenfranchised youth fighting against a system that has all but given up on them is not totally new, this is a powerful, sometimes brutal and often moving work. […]
Billie Holiday Story
Rating [rating=4] Reviewed by Michaela Clement Hayes Cast your minds back to April 1915, the year that Billie Holiday was born. Life was very different for everyone then, especially a girl who seemed to find trouble wherever she looked. My dad used to listen to Billie Holiday when I was younger, but I didn’t […]
The Thrill of Love
Wilma’s Rating [rating=3] It’s not so much the thrill of love as the title suggests, but the sad desperation of love. A story of a beautiful (Marylin Monroe esk) woman, Ruth Ellis, who willingly serves as a punchbag to her cheating boyfriend until eventually she has enough and shoots him dead. The show tells […]
The Secret Garden
Wilma’s Rating [rating=5] If it were possible to award this show more than 5 stars, then I would, but 5 is sadly the maximum. The most beautiful music I have heard in a long time and it amazes me, yet again, to find such a masterpiece at The Kings Head Theatre. It truly is […]
Our Country's Good
Wilma’s Rating [rating=3] “We left our country, for our country’s good”. A line spoken by one of the hundreds of British criminals that had been sentenced to a life of punishment on a remote island in Australia in the late 1700’s. A true story of a group of criminals who were made to put […]