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Review: MEDEA, @sohoplace
Sophie Okonedo adds flavour to a strong but otherwise vanilla production of Euripides' tragedy....
Review: COMPOSITOR E, VAULT Festival
Although the script is generally articulate and well-written, there are a few passages that might need some TLC as they come off as rushed and remain unexplained. Running at just over an hour, a longer show would certainly patch up any kind of doubts we have at this point. Compositor E has the poten...
Review: THE TINKER, VAULT Festival
Nothing’s what it seems in Olivia Foan’s new play, but a sluggish build-up and even weaker ending don’t make The Tinker as exciting as it could be....
Review: GREY AREA, VAULT Festival
A fully formed, mature play about the intricacies of navigating young love and mental health....
Review: SURFACING, VAULT Festival
Ultimately, Powell is asking who helps the people whose job is to help others. He correlates the ideas of protective isolation and arbitrary family connections, blame and regret, death and survival. The play is thought-provoking in all the right spots, but somehow the text has an unfinished feel to ...
Review: DUET FOR ONE, Orange Tree Theatre
First seen in 1980, Tom Kempinski's powerful two-hander about a famous violinist stricken with multiple sclerosis and her therapist is a perfect choice for the intimacy of the Orange Tree Theatre....
Review: MACBETH, Wilton's Music Hall
Just like with Romeo and Juliet, there are a few ways to stage the Scottish Play. By leaning into the different themes, it can become a political drama or a kitchen sink tragedy. Then, there’s whatever Mark Leipacher’s version is trying to do. Performed by two actors, Shakespeare’s tale of amb...
Review: GRACELAND, Royal Court
A one woman show that that lacks the emotional gravity to keep itself grounded...
Review: WASTEMAN, VAULT Festival
The VAULT festival is not Wasteman's first time on the stage - in fact, Joe Leather's production has previously done the bin rounds at Camden Fringe Festival in 2022. Its triumphant return, therefore, is no surprise, given how much audiences enjoyed the semi-autobiographical production's first outin...
Review: WINDFALL, Southwark Playhouse
London transfer of New York hit comedy gathers a few laughs, but feels out of step with the times...
Review Roundup: What Did the Critics Think of Kate Prince's SYLVIA at The Old Vic?
This revolutionary story celebrates the life of Sylvia Pankhurst – feminist, activist, pacifist, socialist, rebel – the lesser-known Pankhurst at the heart of the Suffragette movement, who changed the lives of working women and men across the world. So what did the critics think?...
Review: THE OYSTER PROBLEM, Jermyn Street Theatre
In historian Orlando Figes’ debut play, Flaubert’s friends Ivan Turgenev, Émile Zola, and George Sand urge him to either strip down his writing to please the masses or get a temporary job to fend off his creditors. The Oyster Problem debuts at Jermyn Street Theatre directed by Philip Wilson in ...
Review: SYLVIA, The Old Vic
In Sylvia, the subject of the show is potentially fascinating, with much comparison to draw to the current day; echoes of recent police brutality against women, the challenges against the right to protest and the fight for equal pay rumble on 100 years later. The show has so much to say, but ends up...
Review: WINNER'S CURSE, Park Theatre
The production makes a farce of geopolitical tensions and falls short in satire. It over-delivers its cheap gags and over-engages in silly audience interaction....
Review: STANDING AT THE SKY'S EDGE, National Theatre
A heartfelt theatrical triptych that poses powerful questions about culture and community...
Review: PRIDE & PREJUDICE* (*SORT OF), Richmond Theatre
Pride & Prejudice* (*sort of) has the potential to be an unstructured mess, but has the joyous, slightly chaotic nature of an irreverent fringe production, with the wit and slick satire of a carefully crafted piece more than worthy of the West End....
Review: THE LEARNING LOTTERY, VAULT Festival
Is Britain a functioning meritocracy? Many try to argue that it is, but research states otherwise. Upstart Theatre urge the audience to take matters into their own hands by playing The Learning Lottery, a “fast-paced, high-stakes game show” that determines the future of three children. ...
Review: THE BEEKEEPER OF ALEPPO, Nottingham Playhouse
Directed by Miranda Cromwell and adapted by Nesrin Alrefaai and Matthew Spangler, The Beekeeper of Aleppo tells the story of Syrian refugees Nuri (Alfred Clay) and Afra (Roxy Faridany) as they flee their homeland. Lefteri based the original story on her experiences of meeting people in a refuge cent...
Review: RESIDUE, VAULT Festival
The importance and beauty of some productions extend beyond what the audience see on stage. Residue was born after two years of creative workshops for victims of domestic and sexual abuse. It’s about the women who shared their experiences, but so much more too. Verity Richards and Izzy Kabban deli...
Review: COUNTER, VAULT Festival
A masturbatory look at an infuriating lack of communication. ...
Review: THIS IS THE LAND, VAULT Festival
The one created by Leeza Jessie, Xavier De Santos, Samuel De La Torre, Alice Barton, Sofia Velez, and composer John Baggott is an astonishingly strange show, which wouldn’t be a problem if it wasn’t so… well, meaninglessly weird....
Review: 52 MONOLOGUES FOR YOUNG TRANSSEXUALS, VAULT Festival
'Hi, would you do me the honour of spitting in this cup for me?' asks the gorgeous person in lingerie as you step through the door....
Review: SMOKE, Southwark Playhouse
A frustratingly capricious script shaped into a disturbingly sexy, impressive production....
Review: THE WHOREING TWENTIES at VAULT Festival
As someone named Kat in her twenties and living in the 20s, I thought it would be interesting to review Kat and Kat Comedy’s The Whoreing Twenties. The show is an interesting mix of pre-recorded video and live comedy presented by two women, both named Kat, who “really want to give back to the co...
Review: PHAEDRA, National Theatre
Simon Stone's contemporary twist on Seneca's tragedy is as ferocious as it is thrilling...
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