Wednesday, 23rd August at Camden People’s Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Joe Marshall VESSEL, the latest output of Oxford-based company ‘Dawn Productions’, rounded up its three-week national tour in Camden last week to a near sold-out audience at the Camden People’s Theatre. It’s an ambitious production, with a clear point of view in driving wider awareness... Continue Reading →
Friday, 18th August 2023 at Southwark Playhouse, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman What you might expect from a piece like Dumbledore is So Gay is something that skirts the very edge of copyright infringement laws. I was thinking Harry Potter, but taking place in some imaginary, queer fantasia. I was thinking it would be pure... Continue Reading →
Thursday, 17th August 2023 at Soho Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman The Arc: A Trilogy of New Jewish Plays, in the words of character Lynda (Caroline Gruber), just 'sounds familiar'. It's almost suspiciously too close to a play I would expect to encounter at a Saturday matinee at the Signature Theatre in New York... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 15th August 2023 at Park Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman The Garden of Words has been in development for nine years, and it shows. The piece is a clever collection of poetic textures that convey the realities of communal sorrow in a big city. This flavour of sorrow, though, is not weighty; it's... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 8th August 2023 at Camden People’s Theatre. ⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman 'I like writing about sex.' If I had to pick one, unifying, standout line, this one is undoubtedly a keeper. It is both the crux of, and confusion within, Alex Millington's interactive, metatheatrical two-hander in which he proceeds to re-create a previous encounter... Continue Reading →
Thursday 3rd August 2023 at the King's Head Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Charlotte Dawes Written by Martin Lewton and directed by Andrew McKinnon, Scream Queer Murder is a comedy providing an intriguing view of the changes in identity and sexuality stereotypes in the 1950s and today, through the lens of an Agatha Christie style novel.... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 25th July 2023 at Arcola Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Charlotte Dawes As society grapples with the complexities of maintaining community roots during redevelopment, Union offers a compelling perspective of the gentrification happening around us in London. Directed by Wiebke Green, Union tackles this multi-faceted process through Saskia, played by Dominique Tipper, a property developer... Continue Reading →
Tuesday 25th July 2023 at Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Few shows can boast the kind of spectacle and sense of trapped-in-amber theatrical magic that 42nd Street delivers. Based on the novel by Bradford Ropes and the movie of the same name, and with book by Michael Stewart and Mark Bramble, 42nd Street... Continue Reading →
Saturday 15th July, 2023 at Leeds Playhouse. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In Dreams is a brand new musical which brings resilience, reconnection and love of life centre stage as rad country-rock chick Kenna brings friends old and new together for a celebration. Kenna, once the lead in the now defunct band “Heartbreak Radio”, stumbles across a local place... Continue Reading →
Tuesday, 20th June 2023 at Riverside Studios, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Note: one minor spoiler below… Spy for Spy derives from an important, dramaturgically tight, concept: ‘love on shuffle’. The idea is that life, and our memories of life’s events, don’t occur in a linear fashion. So why should we present this on stage—a... Continue Reading →
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