A sassy, date-night rom-com, but does it have the bite? Table 17 comes to London after successful runs in New York and L.A. It is now served up to UK audiences at the Kiln Theatre, which is transformed via a versatile set into Bianca’s restaurant, the centrepiece of which is the eponymous Table 17. Before […]
Please Please Me at the Kiln Theatre
A sensitive portrait of an unsung pioneer Beatlemania is going through a revival. Peter Jackson’s Get Back, a documentary following the creation of the band’s final studio album, came out in 2021 to critical acclaim. And there’s a buzz over Sam Mendes’s upcoming Four-Film Cinematic Event, which dedicates a feature-length biopic to each member of […]
Manic Street Creature at Kiln Theatre
Mental health drama packs a musical punch As the audience filters into the Kiln ahead of Maimuna Memon’s Manic Street Creature, the band lingers on stage adjusting mics, tuning instruments, chatting quietly. They seem like casual musicians testing the atmosphere before a set; this could be a scene from a pub night, an indie festival, […]
Coven at Kiln Theatre
An exhilarating musical that subverts the witch hunt Like Shakespeare’s Macbeth, Coven opens with the voices of (so-called) witches. Like Macbeth, it speaks strongly to audiences’ obsession with pagan magic and ‘fallen’ women. But where Shakespeare’s pillar of theatre bends to tastes for sinister femininity, from its first beat, Coven reverts and resists the doctrine […]