Peter Pan at Troubadour White City. The face of White City has changed over the past few years. The latest addition to this exciting new development is Troubadour White City Theatre, which opens in White City Place, in the former BBC Media Village in West London this summer. Troubadour Theatres specialises in the creation of […]
Education, Education, Education. The Wardrobe Ensemble at Trafalgar Studios
Back to the ’90s… A snapshot of a groundbreaking era in Britain – and for anyone who grew up at the time, a trip down memory lane – Education Education Education is set during the heady days of May 1997, when the early Blair administration set out with so much promise… Complete with iconic 90’s […]
RSC at the Barbican – Preview
Looking forward to Autumn with the RSC at the Barbican. The summer season of the Royal Shakespeare Company transfers from Stratford-Upon-Avon and opens at the Barbican Theatre on 26 October 2019. The RSC at the Barbican season comprises three of Shakespeare’s plays and features 27 actors each of whom appears across two of the three […]
Rosmersholm – a play for our time
Duncan MacMillan’s Adaption of Ibsen’s Rosmersholm. On my way to a performance of Rosmersholm, I stopped off at my local polling station to cast a vote in the European Elections. There could be fewer more appropriate evenings to view this powerful play that wrestles with politics, the role of the press, universal suffrage, ideology, religion […]
The Lehman Trilogy at The Piccadilly Theatre – Review
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 […]