Thursday, 29th February 2024 at Soho Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Compellingly nonsensical and beautifully chaotic as ever, Lucy McCormick is back with "Lucy and Friends," her self-proclaimed cabaret cum solo show meets spoken word/performance art piece, or some such amalgamation of genres. I first saw McCormick about 2 years ago in an off-the-cuff cabaret... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 28th February 2024 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Fantastically Great Women Who Changed the World? There are many of them, and in Chris Bush’s fun-loving adaptation of Kate Pankhurst’s fabulous book, we meet a generous selection of these extraordinary women. It’s a pretty classic set-up: schoolgirl Jade (Georgia Grant-Anderson) has lost her group at... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 21st February 2024 at the Yard Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman When I first encountered Samuel Takes a Break... in 2021, in a teeny, 15-minute scratch as part of Omnibus Theatre's Engine Room, I still remember one line nearly 3 years later. It's a line that tour guide Samuel (played with equal parts levity and... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 22nd February 2024 at York Theatre Royal. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ There’s something about Greek mythology - and more specifically Orpheus - that continues to grab creatives and audiences alike. Just in recent years, we’ve had Testament’s Orpheus in the Record Shop, Rambert’s Death Trap, Ben Haggarty’s Orpheus Dismembered and Anaïs Mitchell’s Hadestown, and interest in this... Continue Reading →
Saturday, 17th February 2024 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ This latest show from Imitating the Dog offers a key departure from the company’s usual approach: having no live cameras on stage. It does however maintain a characteristic cinematic quality in a bold and intriguing production. Billed as “inspired by” Mary Shelley’s brilliant novel, this take from... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 6th February 2024 at Theatre @41 Monkgate, York. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Angie Millard directs this production of Alexander Zeldin’s 2014 drama with a keen focus on the sympathetic elements of Zeldin’s characters. Beyond Caring is a pointed, well-observed glimpse at an undervalued workforce, and The York Actor’s Collective do well to stage such a static piece... Continue Reading →
Friday, 2nd February 2024 at Pleasance Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Based on real events- which you can hardly believe actually happened- Awkward Productions’ Gwyneth Goes Skiing is a deliciously campy drag/comedy that, despite the occasional hiccup, will leave any audience member (in the words of Linus Karp’s Gwyneth) “gooped and gagged” for more.... Continue Reading →
Friday, 2nd February 2024 at York Theatre Royal ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Cronus and Rhea. Aphrodite. Zeus and Hera. Persephone. Dionysus. Eurydice and Orpheus. Aside from the wonderful poetry of the names, the stories of the Greek gods are an assortment of the unexpected, the macabre and the downright bizarre. Orpheus Dismembered takes audiences on a whistle stop... Continue Reading →
Wednesday, 31st January 2024 at Charing Cross Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Charlotte Dawes From the Wild West to the West End, Bronco Billy - The Musical is a zany, uplifting comedy-drama about reinvention and following your dreams. Based on Clint Eastwood’s 1980 American-western comedy-drama of the same name (yes, another film-to-musical adaptation!), Bronco Billy premiered in Los... Continue Reading →
Friday, 26th January 2024 at The Cockpit Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Though the premise is intriguing, “The Ending” doesn’t quite deliver what it says on the tin. Billed as “what happened after the classic story of Orpheus and Eurydice,” you might expect a re-jig to the ending of the classic myth. The ending,... Continue Reading →
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