A murder mystery dining experience *Stop Press – this production is currently closed due to health and safety precautions concerning Covid19 The Troubadour Wembley Park’s in-house restaurant Studio 5ive is the setting for Waiter, There’s a Murder in my Soup! – a fun evening combining a comedy murder mystery with a three-course dinner and drinks. […]
I Think We Are Alone – Frantic Assembly – review
I Think We Are Alone at Theatre Royal Stratford East Frantic Assembly, the much loved and respected physical theatre company are marking its 25th anniversary with a production of I Think We Are Alone, which is touring the UK and has just opened in London at Theatre Royal Stratford East. I always look forward to […]
Meat – Theatre503 – Review
Fresh new writing in Battersea MEAT by Gillian Greer is a new play set in modern-day Dublin that manages to be both thought-provoking and entertaining. It asks the audience to consider themes like consent, growing away from your roots and addressing the past when we all remember it very differently. In the skilled hands of […]
Magic Goes Wrong – Vaudeville Theatre – Review
A magical West End farce at the Vaudeville. Fancy a night of fun and laughter with farcical slapstick humour and magic going horribly wrong? Then I can recommend heading to the Vaudeville Theatre in London’s West End for Magic Goes Wrong…you are sure to be thoroughly entertained. Magic Goes Wrong is the latest brainchild of […]
Upstart Crow at The Gielgud Theatre – Review
Ben Elton’s Upstart Crow – a rollicking Shakespearian romp. There has been a lot of interest around David Mitchell making his West End debut in Upstart Crow at the Gielgud Theatre in Ben Elton’s adaptation of his hit BBC sitcom. I know this because on the train home the chap sitting next to me was […]
The High Table, Bush Theatre – review
The High Table – from London to Lagos It’s Valentine’s Day at the Bush Theatre and a celebration of love with the joyous opening of Temi Wilkey’s heart-warming and highly accomplished debut play The High Table. A touching and at times very funny exploration of homosexuality, marriage, cultural values and traditions, and intergenerational family dynamics. […]
The Visit – National Theatre review
Tony Kushner’s new adaptation of The Visit. Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s classic 1956 play The Visit (or The Old Lady Comes to Call) has been adapted by acclaimed North American playwright Tony Kushner, best known for writing the celebrated 1992 play ‘Angels in America’. Here Kushner has transported the story from central Europe to mid-20th-century America in a […]
Death of England – Dorfman, National Theatre – Review
Visceral Theatre in Death of England at the National Theatre. It’s always a stimulating experience going to The Dorfman Theatre. It’s the National’s version of the Young Vic or The Royal Court – a place to find experimental writing and productions; director Clint Dyer and his co-writer Roy Williams are both working-class and black and […]
Review – Kunene and the King – Ambassadors Theatre
John Kani and Anthony Sher – Kunene and the King. Kunene and the King, playing at The Ambassadors Theatre, brings together on stage two of the finest actors South Africa has ever produced. John Kani (actor, director, playwright and cultural activist) and Anthony Sher (who studied drama in the UK and rose to become one […]
Faustus: That Damned Woman – Lyric Hammersmith – Review
A legendary myth transforms into a vivid feminist tale. Headlong and the Lyric Hammersmith’s powerful co-production of Faustus: That Damned Woman turns the legendary myth into a vivid feminist tale. Chris Bush’s cleverly written retelling of Christopher Marlowe’s renaissance play gender swaps the iconic role of Faustus to dramatic effect. It takes you on a […]