Friday 10th June 2022 at Barons Court Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Maygan Forbes Love (to) Bits, written by Ioana Goga and directed by Ioana Goga & Jez Davess-Humphrey, boldly explores the trials and tribulations of a 20-something year old female looking to find her love. Long lasting, happy love is a journey but what exactly... Continue Reading →
Review: A Final Act of Friendship at The Bridge House Theatre
Saturday, May 28th 2022 at The Bridge House Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Maygan Forbes Fresh from it's 5* run at the White Bear Theatre, A Final Act of Friendship, is a celebration of friendship and love, what it means to step outside of your own prejudices and see the person underneath it all. Written by... Continue Reading →
Review: The Haunting of Susan A at the King’s Head Theatre
Monday 6th June 2022 at the King’s Head Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Jonathan Walfisz Often a play comes with a mission statement. But few plays that I have seen recently have carried their mission statement so proudly. “The Haunting of Susan A” at the King’s Head Theatre is Mark Ravenhill’s latest play, who is also... Continue Reading →
Review: The Concrete Jungle Book
Wednesday June 1st 2022 at the Pleasance Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Maygan Forbes Spectacular! Energetic! Electrifying! A true masterpiece of a musical, thoughtful and well rounded – The Concrete Jungle Book is an explosion of black talent in the UK theatre scene. Described as a hip hop musical and survival guide, Dominic Garfield (writer and... Continue Reading →
Review: The White Card at Leeds Playhouse
Thursday 26th May 2022 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Claudia Rankine’s The White Card explores the ways in which white people engage with the stories, experiences and art of Black people. It questions the motivation behind our consumption of such stories and how often white people engage at a privileged arm’s length rather than recognising themselves... Continue Reading →
Review: Red Ellen (Touring)
Tuesday 24th May 2022 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ “There is more than one way to kill a revolutionary.” Caroline Bird’s Red Ellen is the latest in a welcome clutch of new work spotlighting marginalised female figures from history. Ellen Wilkinson was undoubtedly a remarkable figure with a flawed personal life and a career spanning... Continue Reading →
Review: 100 Paintings at Hope Theatre
Thursday 19th May 2022 at Hope Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Maygan Forbes Set in a dystopian future, 100 Paintings tells the story of a young artist and his mother struggling to survive in the crumbling Savoy Hotel. Battling mountains of unpaid hotel bills, the artist (played by Conrad Williamson) has three days to produce one-hundred... Continue Reading →
Review: The Homecoming (Touring)
Monday 16th May 2022 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ The truth? I’m still not sure what to think of the bizarre but enthralling piece of theatre that is The Homecoming. I realise of course that this is precisely the reputation preceding Mr Harold Pinter, master of ambiguity and rule-breaking, so I’m happy to sit with... Continue Reading →
Review: Maggie May at Leeds Playhouse
Wednesday 11th May 2022 at Leeds Playhouse (Courtyard Theatre). ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ “Who am I then?” “Who else would I be?” Frances Poet’s Maggie May takes this idea of an endangered sense of identity and builds on it layer over layer until we see the true weight of its significance. In this perceptive and sensitive play, what... Continue Reading →
Review: For the Love of a Primary Caregiver at Brixton House
Thursday 5th May 2022 at Brixton House. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Maygan Forbes “Legally blonde, but black”. Rosemary (played by Princess Donough) is your typical type A personality, she has done everything by the book – completed university at a socially acceptable age, kept her rebellious period disciplined and well contained, people pleased and pandered; Rosemary finessed... Continue Reading →