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Review: THE WALWORTH FARCE, Southwark Playhouse Elephant
Family memory is weaponised in this grime lined new production of Enda Walsh's 2006 black comedy...
Review: AGE IS A FEELING, Soho Theatre
Taking us from age 25 to death, this is a feat of theatre that captures the full human experience, presenting the highs and lows with remarkable honesty and warmth. You’ll feel joy, grief, sorrow, nostalgia, and every other emotion in Haley McGee’s magical solo show....
Review: GRENFELL: SYSTEM FAILURE SCENES FROM THE INQUIRY, Playground Theatre
Following up Value Engineering, Richard Norton-Taylor and Nicolas Kent once more let the evidence speak for itself in a piece of verbatim theatre that still manages to shock us...
Review: HAPPY DEATHDAY, VAULT Festival
People get very uncomfortable around death. It’s become this taboo of sorts when it’s just how life works. Leoni Amandin takes an original approach to the matter in an empathetic, surprisingly educational, funny celebration of mortality....
Review: RIGHT OF WAY, VAULT Festival
Created alongside Susannah Bramwell and Nina Fidderman (respectively credited as creative producer and associate artist), Right Of Way is emotionally intelligent and poignant. It straddles the line between poetry and theatre in an exquisite exploration of the “landscape of grief”. Bowden’s per...
Review: MY NAME IS, VAULT Festival
Chris Yarnell directs an energetic cast. The plot is channelled through effortless movement and expressive music by Paul Freeman. A smooth figurative choreography establishes a creative attitude to physical theatre. Their tale isn’t obscure or cryptic in any way, but entertaining and utterly magne...
Review: HOME X, Barbican Theatre
Despite the recent focus on metaverses and 3D gaming, digitally-rendered worlds – and the hype around them - have been in the public consciousness for decades. ...
Review: AFGHANISTAN IS NOT FUNNY, Arcola Theatre
A monologue that comes alive with photographs of the carnage of war but never quite settles its underlying moral ambiguity...
Review: WOMEN, BEWARE THE DEVIL, Almeida Theatre
Tonally bombastic and unapologetically queasy...
Review: HIDE AND SEEK, VAULT Festival
While Hide and Seek can be further polished, Tobia Rossi has impeccable aim as a playwright. He paints a touching picture before he violently snatches away all prospects of happiness and joy in a bid to prove the horrifying nature of homophobia....
Review: I WAS A GERMAN, VAULT Festival
When Brexit went from theory to reality, Clare Fraenkel looked into her German heritage and found out she was entitled to a German passport. Due to the restoration of German citizenship granted by Article 116 of the Basic Law, her grandfather’s epic escape from Nazi Germany in 1933 had a domino ef...
Review: EMILE AND EMILY, VAULT Festival
All in all, the concept is good but unfocused. The vignettes might need stronger intention and substance, as having roles with the same name is hardly enough to tie them together at this stage....
Review: IT'S A MOTHERF**KING PLEASURE, VAULT Festival
It’s A Motherf**king Pleasure is a brilliant commentary on disabilities and the arts and fully deserves the recommendation made by Lyn Gardner, even though she hasn’t even seen the show. As one of the actors comments, “They didn’t know it was good, but they knew it was disabled.”...
Review: THE SODOMITE, VAULT Festival
The Sodomite is a fun show that will amuse audience members through song and story, especially those who grew up Catholic and feel ostracised from the religious community....
Review: THE WINTER'S TALE, Shakespeare's Globe
“A sad tale’s best for winter.” There may be moments of poignancy and outright tragedy in this late Shakespeare play, but Sean Holmes’ vibrant production ensures that the audience is given more than their fair share of comedy and levity throughout. ...
Review: BELL, BOOK AND CANDLE, Tabard Theatre
Lovely to look at, funny and clever, a perfect tonic for these miserable days full of bills and empty shelves...
Review: RUSALKA, Royal Opera House
A fish out of water tale that reflects our uneasy relationship with nature...
Review: ROMEO AND JULIE, National Theatre
Owens scratches the surface of Welsh underdevelopment and economic deprivation, going as far as giving Julie a perfunctory invective against posh kids, but refraining from digging deeper into the issues. It’s disheartening to see such a big platform being under-exploited to the benefit of a silly ...
Review: THE BEACH HOUSE, Park Theatre
In a landscape dominated by a dearth of lesbian stories, it’s refreshing to find one that doesn’t deal with sexuality at all, but focuses on the negotiations of parenthood and the complications of personal connections....
Review: TROUBLE IN BUTETOWN, Donmar Warehouse
Diana Nneka Atuona’s Liberian Girl was a hit at the Royal Court in 2015. In her second play, she shifts away from the African continent to 1940s Cardiff for her second play Trouble In Butetown....
Review: AKEDAH, Hampstead Theatre
Akedah won the 2019 Bruntwood Prize Original New Voices Award, and is Michael John O’Neill’s first full length play. It’s a tricky show in every sense of the word: the themes are very heavy, with little levity, and the plot is often hard to keep track of, as new details about the characters’...
Review: CIRQUE BERSERK, Riverside Studios
Say what you like but little beats the thrill of live circus. Featuring motorcycles speeding around a Globe Of Death and incredible displays of acrobatics, balancing and knife-throwing plus one of the loveliest clowns in the business, Cirque Berserk returns to London for another run....
Review: THE INSTRUMENTALS, Little Angel Theatre
A moving exploration of loss and grief for ages 4 to 8, infused with funky beats from the seventies....
Review: JACK V GIANT, Polka Theatre
Opening the Spring season at Polka Theatre is a new musical adaptation of Jack and the Beanstalk from the team behind We're Going on a Bear Hunt. Co-written by Polka's outgoing Artistic Director, Peter Glanville with music by Barb Jungr, and directed by Roman Stefanski, Jack v Giant offers a gender-...
Review: THE RHINEGOLD, London Coliseum
A luminous production glistening with chutzpah and armed with a fresh new translation....
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