Tennessee Williams’ ‘The Two Character Play’ Sam Yates leaves no theatrical element unused in Tennessee Williams’ unique and complex meta-theatre. “Tonight there’ll have to be a lot of improvisation, but if we’re both lost in the play, the bits of improvisation won’t matter at all, in fact they may make the play better.” This play, appropriately for […]
Hotel Paradiso by Lost in Translation Circus – Review
Hotel Paradiso at The Underbelly Festival After months of Covid misery and being starved of live performance I couldn’t wait to go along to the Underbelly Festival, which this year is centrally located in Cavendish Square just off Oxford Street. I was going to see Hotel Paradiso performed by Lost in Translation, one of the […]
The Play That Goes Wrong – Duchess Theatre – Review
Return of a West End favourite Award-winning comedy The Play That Goes Wrong has reopened at the Duchess Theatre, its home in the West End since 2014. If you have forgotten what it’s like to experience that heady combination of shared laughter and live performance this could be the play for you. Written by Henry […]
Billionaire Boy – Garrick Theatre, West End – review
Billionaire Boy by David Walliams Bestselling children’s author David Walliams has a string of successful stage productions behind him including the RSCs fabulous production of The Boy in the Dress and the award-winning Gangsta Granny which took the West End by storm in 2017. Now the Birmingham Stage Company have brought David Walliams’s second adaptation […]
Preview – National Theatre Summer 2021
All three theatres to reopen on the Southbank Theatre-goers are in for a treat this summer. Not only are many theatres re-opening, but government regulations have changed to allow full houses to be sold rather than people sitting in small groups while social distancing. While not all theatre lovers will feel ready to return under […]
Macbeth – The Lord Chamberlain’s Men at Chiswick House – Review
All The Chamberlain’s Men The Lord Chamberlain’s Men were founded in 2004 as an all-male theatre company presenting authentic productions of Shakespeare’s plays performed in wonderful settings across the country. The name is taken from the company that Shakespeare wrote most of his plays for, led by actor-manager Richard Burbage. The present iteration of the […]
Bad Nights and Odd Days – Greenwich Theatre – Review
Four by Caryl Churchill Greenwich Theatre is offering audiences a rare opportunity to see four intriguing short plays by Caryl Churchill, all directed and performed with great precision and wit. Bad Days and Odd Nights runs until 23rd July All four plays were written between 1971 and 1980 and still make perfect sense in 2021 […]
Staircase – Southwark Playhouse – Review
Southwark Playhouse presents Staircase by Charles Dyer. Staircase by Charles Dyer opened on 23 June and will run until 17th July. A West End and Broadway hit in the late ’60s when it premiered, this revival, the first production in nearly 50 years, is by Two’s Company. It’s a moment in history, an insight into […]
Romeo and Juliet – Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre – Review
A new production opens at The Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre Press night for Romeo and Juliet at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre felt particularly emotional. Not because of the tragedy of the play’s ending, but due to it being my first time back at the theatre since March 2020. This is the longest […]
Spitalfields Festival Preview 2021
An East London Music Festival like no other – Spitalfields Music Festival After a year like no other, I am amazed by the quality and ingenuity of performers, back on stage for the first time. It’s also fair to say that of everything I missed during the lockdown, live performance – be that opera, chamber […]