Review: South Pacific (Touring)

Tuesday 1st November 2022 at Leeds Grand Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ In a time of so many exciting adaptations and daring modernisations of classics, this production of South Pacific from director Daniel Evans is a shining example of how the “golden oldies” can maintain their appeal without very much tinkering at all. Set on a South Pacific... Continue Reading →

Review: Behind Closed Walls at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre

Thursday 27th October 2022 at Brockley Jack Studio Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Alternate-history plays, for the most part, have the tendency to be more alien than not. Unfamiliar, dystopic worlds often mean a lot of work on the audience’s part to “figure out” this unfamiliar territory. With Behind Closed Walls, however, writer Daryl... Continue Reading →

Review: Des Fleurs at The Space, London

Wednesday 26th October 2022 at The Space, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Emma Dorfman Wasted time is perhaps the worst feeling of them all. It’s a feeling we all know well, given the events of the past two years. While some moments promoted overdone dramatic tropes that weren’t necessarily my taste, with Des Fleurs, writer Gabrielle Silvestre... Continue Reading →

Review: Nosferatu at the Etcetera Theatre, London

Wednesday 26th October 2022 at Etcetera Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Issy Flower As we near the end of spooky season, London’s fringe theatres are thronged with ghost stories and classic horror adaptations, that either aim to be transformative reimaginings of the classics or a bit of fun—a spoofy, spooky send-up of a well-known text. Theatre... Continue Reading →

Review: Elephant at Bush Theatre, London

Tuesday 25th October 2022 at Bush Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Jonathan Walfisz There’s an elephant in the room throughout Anoushka Lucas’s brilliant new play ‘Elephant’ at the Bush Theatre. It’s not the idiomatic type though, as Lucas’s Lylah notes a white middle class audience might prefer. Instead, Lucas’s elephant is very physically present in the... Continue Reading →

Review: Your Words Become Your World at The Other Palace, London

Sunday 16th October 2022 at The Other Palace, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Jonathan Walfisz In a packed auditorium, the singer and actor Ellie Nunn takes to a small stage in The Other Place. She sings ‘Who Wouldn’t Wish on a Star’, a short song that feels like the opener of a classic fairytale. It’s a modest... Continue Reading →

Review: The Play with Speeches at the Jack Studio Theatre, London

Thursday 13th October 2022 at at the Jack Studio Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Issy Flower James Woolf’s The Play With Speeches is an unwieldy comic beast: long and unformed, it delivers the laughs but is neither satirical nor emotional enough to transcend its limitations. Anthony (Matthew Parker) and Penny (Gillian King) are auditioning for Anthony’s... Continue Reading →

Review: My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored at the Wesley Centre, Harrogate

Saturday 8th October 2022 at Wesley Centre, Harrogate. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Nana-Kofi Kufuor’s My Voice Was Heard But It Was Ignored is a heart-stopping, edge-of-your-seat, thoroughly gripping two hander. It is incredibly powerful theatre. The premise is simple: when Reece calls out to his teacher for help while Police push his face into concrete, he expects help... Continue Reading →

Review: How to Have a Baby and Not Lose Your Sh*t at King’s Head Theatre, London

Friday 7th October 2022 at King’s Head Theatre, London. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Reviewer: Tina Zucco How to Have a Baby and Not Lose Your Shit is an hour of guilty laughter that entertains from start to finish. The play begins with this late-night-friends-talk moment where Alice (Michelle Luther) introduces us to all her misfortunes of trying for... Continue Reading →

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