“You’re so quiet it’s hard to connect with you,” declares the love interest in Isabel Renner’s show, Wyld Woman: The Legend of Shy Girl. This shakes the protagonist’s emotional bedrock. In a high-energy, if uneven show about social pressure and interior dialogues, the perils of extreme timidity are wrung out for comic effect.
The Unbelievers at Royal Court Theatre
A study of motherhood at the psychological brink The Unbelievers fixates on the concept of aftermath. When a teenage boy disappears without explanation, his loved ones are left scrambling in a void of incomprehensible loss. How, the play asks, does a family become fractured by differing responses to tragedy? What hope is there for togetherness, […]
(the) Woman, Park Theatre Review
The messy underbelly of motherhood M is a woman. She’s in the first stages of her career, but is already a successful playwright. She’s married. And as Jane Upton’s play starts, she becomes a mother – surely now she has everything? Holding her baby girl, she promises “I’ll be perfect for you.” Real life, though, […]
Doomers at the Rose Lipman Building – Theatre That Confronts Ourselves & Our Times – Review
A loose, fly-on-the-wall drama about Silicon Valley hopefuls turned sour by moral crises Before the first line of dialogue, the audience of DOOMERS is ordered over the Tannoy to “sit the **** down”. From this moment, the two-act play inducts us into an insult-saturated world of tech-rich Gen-Zers facing a company crisis. The masterminds behind […]
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler
The BAFTA award-winning writers of hit sitcoms Birds of a Feather and Goodnight Sweetheart, Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran, are premiering their new comedy in London this September 2025.
Dr Freud Will See You Now, Mrs Hitler is a new dark comedy which imagines what might have happened if Adolf Hitler had visited Sigmund Freud for psychiatric treatment.
News: 101 Dalmatians, The Musical – Eventim Apollo
Following a successful UK tour, 101 Dalmatians The Musical will transfer to the Eventim Apollo in Hammersmith for a limited six-week summer run, from Friday, 18 July, to Saturday, 30 August 2025.
Showmanism
I have never seen a production quite like Showmanism. Throughout this electrifying one-man show, creator and performer Dickie Beau explores the history of theatre, transforming himself into an array of dramatis personae.
Romeo and Juliet – Flabbergast at Wiltons Music Hall
Flabbergast, with a heritage of puppetry and clowning, takes this Shakespearian favourite to a new dimension in a production that somehow remains true to the original while setting the play in an otherworldly Verona complete with scaffold staging, glitter, and some fabulous makeup. It’s a visceral interpretation where sitting in the first few rows at times felt a little too immersed in the action for comfort.
Letters from Max – Hampstead Theatre Downstairs
If there is beauty to be found in losing a loved one too soon, it is portrayed thoughtfully, musically, and poetically in Sarah Ruhl’s moving play, Letters from Max.
Parlour Song – Greenwich Theatre
Directed by James Haddrell, Parlour Song is a short shock of a play mixing comic, surreal and disturbing elements against the very ordinary setting of a new-build estate on the leafy edge of London. It tells the story of a demolition man whose own life seems to be collapsing around him.