Vagina Monologues
Rating [rating=4] Reviewed by Ruthie Luff 29 NOVEMBER 2012 Richmond Theatre, London Cast: Clare Buckfield Vicky Entwistle Hayley Tamaddon Having seen the Vagina Monologues more times than I can remember, and having produced it before as well, I went to the Richmond Theatre with a very clear idea of what I was in for. […]
Goodnight Mister Tom
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] Goodnight Mister Tom is a wonderful story that has carried through the ages, from a children’s book (by Michelle Magorian), to the 1998 film and now done justice by this wonderful show that is brought to life perfectly for the stage. It tells the war time story of William Beech, played tonight […]
People Like Us/Happy Never After
Rating [rating=5] Reviewed by Ruthie Luff You never know what you’re going to get with a double bill, but People Like Us and Happy Never After are a pair of new, fantastic plays! People Like Us, written by Jake Brunger, opens with a young couple preparing for dinner guests in a room filled with […]
The Upstairs Room
Rating [rating=3] Reviewed by Ruthie Luff The King’s Head Theatre in Islington opens it’s doors to the premiere of David K. O’Hara’s one-act play, The Upstairs Room. The audience huddle in a tiny intimate space, where an array of buzzing lightbulbs hang over head from open wires, exposing a dingy, mold infested attic. […]
Sweet Smell of Success
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] When you first walk into the Arcola Theatre, you wonder what you have let yourself in for. It is a building site (having just reopened after having extensive work done to it), with cables still hanging from the ceiling! The auditorium itself is like an old gutted pub. Hollow apart from the […]
Little Voice
Wilma’s Rating [rating=3] Playing this week at the New Wimbledon Theatre is The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. Based on the 1998 film starring Jane Horrocks. It tells the story of a quiet young girl who keeps her self to herself and rarely ever leaves the sanctuary of her bedroom, playing the records her […]
Dreamboats
Wilma’s Rating [rating=3] It was a surprise to most of us when Dreamboats and Petticoats announced it was opening at the Wyndhams Theatre (since it only closed at the Playhouse Theatre in August). The producers must have thought a more central West End location (and the Christmas period) would help to fill the seats. […]
Loserville
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] Loserville is a new British musical, written by Elliot Davis (Soho Cinders) and with music by James Bourne (Busted). It tells the story of Michael Dork (Aaron Sidwell), a boy who is on the verge of inventing the Internet. With the help of Holly, the new girl at school, (Eliza Hope Bennett) […]
A Broken Rose
★★★★ A Broken Rose is like falling into a story book and discovering it is all real. Like walking to the back of the wardrobe and finding yourself in Narnia! In this magical fairytale we see 14 year old Maria (former Eastenders actress Louisa Lytton) who’s father died in a car crash when she was […]
42nd Street
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] Currently tap dancing around the UK is the 1930’s based musical 42nd Street. In the show we meet Peggy Sawyer (Jessica Punch). She is young, bright eyed and ready to take on the world when she arrives in New York to audition for the show Pretty Lady. Stud muffin Billy Lawlor (James […]