JULIE at the National’s Lyttelton Theatre For anyone new to the narrative of Miss Julie this stunningly staged production at the Lyttelton Theatre excites, engages and explodes in a visual and moving experience. Hotfooting it from the Netflix’s acclaimed royal soap opera The Crown is Vanessa Kirby, whose brilliant portrayal of Princess Margaret has put […]
Circolombia at London’s Underbelly Festival
Breathtaking Colombian Contemporary Circus: Colombian circus company Circolombia opened at the London Underbelly Festival with a bang, literally! In a terrifying opening feat, an artist falls from quite a height in pitch blackness, (presumably onto a mattress) which had the audience agape and with a real sense of what was in store for them. Circolombia […]
Knights of the Rose – a classic rock musical
Knights of the Rose at The Arts Theatre: KNIGHTS OF THE ROSE is a new musical, which opens this summer and it sounds like it’s got all the ingredients for a rocking night out. It is described, as a classic Rock Musical of Shakespearean proportions, which sounds fabulous! Plus if you enjoy listening to some […]
Mood Music at the Old Vic with dinner at The Delaunay
Mood Music Review: Recently opened at The Old Vic, Mood Music is a powerful analysis of the gender and power relations in the music industry. Written by Joe Penhall, it charts the emotional and legal wranglings between a young, female musician and an older, male music producer. Cat (Seána Kerslake) is an aspiring singer-songwriter who […]
Café de Paris, – The Service
Dinner, bubbles and cabaret…..at the Café de Paris Café de Paris, London’s iconic club and cabaret venue have recently launched a new burlesque/cabaret show called “The Service” which we have been invited to review along with a three-course dinner and a bottle of Prosecco. For a proper old-school night out in the West End, it doesn’t get […]
Absolute Hell at the National Theatre
Review of Absolute Hell, National Theatre, London Southbank: Rodney Ackland’s Absolute Hell was originally titled ‘The Pink Room’ and was first produced in 1952; it was met with a resounding slating from the critics. In 1988 it was revised and revived at the Orange Tree Theatre to much more acclaim and went on to be […]
Tina The Musical
Flashback to the 80s – Tina the Musical An invitation to see TINA the Musical took me back to 80s when legendary rock and singer Tina Turner launched a major comeback and hit the British music scene with a bang with much-loved hits like Let’s Stay Together, Private Dancer and What’s Love Got to Do […]
Preview – Treading Water performs in April & May at the Cockpit Theatre
Treading Water at the Cockpit, London Do you fancy seeing an amusing, touching play in Central London? Performer and writer Kathryn Gardner, along with her Theatre Company Subtle Paws are doing two performances of their production of Treading Water, which has delighted audiences to date, at the Cockpit Theatre. I am definitely planning to see […]
A Night at the Opera – La Traviata, ENO at the Coliseum
ENO at the London Coliseum – La Traviata: Opera, the marmite of the musical world – as a young musician it wasn’t until I left home and went to University that I actually went to the opera, thanks to other family members being firmly in the ‘hate it’ camp. But, of course, Opera was very much […]
AUSTENTATIOUS – An Improvised Jane Austen Novel – extends run at Savoy Theatre
Austentatious: An Improvised Jane Austen Novel As its name suggests, this quirky theatre production, ‘Austentatious’ is based on the much-loved novelist Jane Austen and it is certainly hilarious with some of the best comic actors giving ‘ostentatious’ a new meaning. I was accompanied by ‘the teenager’, a drama scholar, to see a Sunday evening showing […]