Sam Mendes’ Production of the Lehman Trilogy. The Lehman Trilogy started life at the National Theatre last summer and has justifiably made its way to the West End’s Piccadilly Theatre – where it is guaranteed to continue its enormous success. It’s not often I can engage in three and a half hours of narrative about […]
Anna at the National Theatre
A Tech – Savvy Spy Thriller – Anna by Ella Hickson. The National Theatre has done it again, challenging theatrical expectations and conventions with the intelligent Cold War spy thriller, Anna – an innovative collaboration between writer Ella Hickson and talented sound-designers Ben and Max Ringham, slickly directed by Natalie Abrahami. Vicki Mortimer’s elegant modernist […]
Everybody’s Talking About Jamie – Apollo Theatre
Here’s why Everybody’s Talking about Jamie. Jamie’s been on my radar for some time now, so I was delighted to finally get along and see for myself what Everybody’s Been Talking About! I took my daughter as I thought it might be rather up her street (she is completely consumed with watching Netflix’s ‘RuPaul’s Drag […]
Top Girls Review, National Theatre
Caryl Churchill’s Top Girls: It was 1982, a society in the throes of Thatcherism, when Caryl Churchill’s groundbreaking feminist tour-de-force ‘Top Girls’ first played at the Royal Court Theatre, with just seven actors taking on multiple roles. Thirty-seven years later this iconic play opens at the National Theatre on the Lyttelton ’s sweeping stage. Lindsey Turner’s […]
Underbelly Festival, Southbank – 2019 – Preview
London’s Original, Biggest and Best Pop-Up Festival returns to the Southbank with headline acts by Gravity & Other Myths, Little Death Club, Flip Fabrique and Yummy. Underbelly Festival Southbank is central London’s home of affordable live entertainment, they have recently announced an exciting new season with their biggest programme ever of circus, variety, comedy, cabaret and […]
Yamato at The Peacock Theatre- Review
Japanese Taiko Drumming in London – Yamato: Even if you don’t know the name, you’ve probably all heard Japanese taiko drumming. It’s that massive hollow drum sound used in fantasy film soundtracks when the ‘final battle’ is about to commence. Of course in the movies, the drums have actually been played by orchestral percussionists called […]
The Thread – Sadler’s Wells – Russell Maliphant and Vangelis
Slave to the Rhythm: The Thread at Sadler’s Wells From the frenzies of Dionysus to the camp of ‘Strictly’ – bodies and minds delight in dance. Dance has the ability to transcend everyday experience, order and disorder, senses on fire; desire, passion, expression… We intuitively recognise the real thing – when we surrender to what […]
Romance Romance – Above The Stag Theatre – Review
Romance Romance, An LGBT Production at Above the Stag Theatre Don’t we all love a bit of Romance?…. I walked out on an absolute high after a charming evening of musical theatre in Vauxhall, at Above the Stag. It was my first visit to this great venue; an Off-West End theatre underneath the arches on […]
Tartuffe at the National Theatre – Review
Molière’s Tartuffe re-imagined, National Theatre, London: John Donnelly’s new version of Tartuffe, Molière’s 1664 comedy, showing now at the Lyttelton, is a contemporary morality tale, stripping away the hypocrisy of both the political left and the right, attacking neo-liberalism as much as the radical pretensions of contemporary art and taking a pop at pretty […]
Follies, The National Theatre – Review
Follies, The Olivier, National Theatre: Stephen Sondheim’s musical, Follies revolves around a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the “Weismann’s Follies”, a musical revue (based on the Ziegfeld Follies). This spectacular revival of Follies, directed by Dominic Cooke features a cast of 40 and a full orchestra. When we reach a certain […]