A powerful new play at Hampstead Downstairs Lotus Beauty is a play that takes the viewer by surprise. Written by Satinder Chohan, with strong direction by Pooja Ghai, it is playing at Hampstead Downstairs. The drama takes place in a beauty salon in Southall and initially seems to be a light comedy set in an […]
Everyday at the New Diorama Theatre
Deafinitely Theatre’s Everyday premieres at the New Diorama Theatre Marking Deafinitely Theatre’s 20th anniversary, Everyday highlights the true stories of non-binary people and deaf women surviving abuse. Four ‘witches’ come together and form a ritual of community and catharsis, combining British Sign Language and English in the company’s unique bilingual style as they share their […]
The Father And The Assassin at The National Theatre
Anupama Chandrasekhar’s Play Triumphs at The Olivier Theatre: Given the pitfalls in the education of British Colonial History, it’s no wonder that all most of us know about Mahatma Gandhi is that he led the peaceful protests for Indian Independence. Words like Satyagraha and Ahimsa are all but missing from the English vocabulary, and mentions […]
100 Paintings- The Hope Theatre – Review
A Tragic Comedy at The Hope Theatre Anyone facing a looming deadline will have sympathy for The Artist who has a mere three days in which to produce 100 paintings. Playing at The Hope Theatre, 100 Paintings is a tragic comedy, written by Jack Stacey (The Play That Goes Wrong, West End) and directed by […]
Lerner & Loewe’s My Fair Lady at the London Coliseum
Dancing all night at the Coliseum If like me you grew up in the 1960s then the 1956 musical My Fair Lady will have made a profound impression on your youthful consciousness with the show playing in the West End for five and a half years and having the longest Broadway run of any musical […]
Patricia Gets Ready (for a date with a man that used to hit her) – Review
Fringe acclaimed production comes to Brixton and Beyond! There’s nothing wrong with an unambiguous play title, but even The Play That Goes Wrong has nothing on this one. If you’re sensing that I’m using obvious humour to deflect from the very serious subject matter of Martha Watson Allpress’s fringe success, you’d be right. But then […]
2:22 A Ghost Story – Review
Danny Robbin’s masterpiece of a play is set for another outstanding run: Do you believe in ghosts? This question could divide opinion at almost every dinner party, family get-together, or office social. Some bloke will inevitably mention that his nan’s best mate’s dog once saw a ghost, and was so shaken by the whole affair […]
The Breach
Friendship and betrayal on stage at Hampstead Theatre The Breach, written by Naomi Wallace and directed by Sarah Frankcom, is having its UK premiere at Hampstead Theatre, the first of a trilogy of plays that take place in an ‘imagined‘ Kentucky. It tells the story of three friends and a sister whose adolescent behaviour has […]
Uncle Vanya at the Old Red Lion Theatre – Review
Jonathan George as Uncle Vanya excels in Candid Broad’s Chekhov: A remote late-Victorian country house is what many people, conditioned by two years of a pandemic, might consider to be the perfect lockdown arrangement. Though you’ll probably have to take part in the occasional domestic row, at least the hydrangeas smell nice. Candid Broad’s Uncle […]
Middle – National Theatre – Review
Stuck in the middle The team behind Beginning, a hit at the National and on its West End transfer in 2017, have returned to the Dorfman with a sequel of sorts. Middle is the second in David Eldridge’s loose, originally unplanned trilogy that aims to explore love and relationships. In this intense and funny two-hander, […]