Simon Ward reviews Two Cities…Half the World Away at the Old Red Lion Theatre Nicky Allt is a Liverpool-born playwright who has written often about the cultural and sociological significance of football. This hilarious and heart-warming play is no exception. Directed by Callum O’Brien it places two diehard […]
Simon Ward reviews Ghost Stories For Christmas at the Old Red Lion Theatre Writer and performer Matthew Wood founded Edwyrdian Tales as a response to lockdown in 2020, to provide an online version of the show that he had been bringing to heritage sites such as the Tower […]
Simon Ward reviews 21 Days at the Canal Cafe Theatre Showing as part of the Voila! Festival of Theatre, this is clearly a labour of love for writer-producer-and-lead actor Sushant Nair, who plays Jay. His antagonist is May (Alanya Hotchkiss), a flatmate imposed on him somehow by his […]
Simon Ward reviews How To Cry In A House Full Of Children at The Space Theatre It is very difficult for me to write about this one woman play, as most of it is performed in Spanish, a language I do not speak. Originating in Uruguay, written by […]
Simon Ward reviews Condensation & Cannonballs at the Union Theatre I last saw and admired Noah McCreadie’s work back in 2023 with his hard-hitting play Getaway/Runaway about the devastating impact of addiction on a family. In this piece, McCreadie himself takes the lead in a one man show […]
Simon Ward reviews Cellular at the Old Red Lion Theatre Cellular is the latest play from writer-director Dean Stalham. Its punning title refers, of course, to the confined quarters shared by Marj (Jane Gull) and new cellmate Veronica (Vanessa Koster-Goodliffe), but also, perhaps, to the deep visceral damage […]
Simon Ward reviews Big Love at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre This is the final play in the Lion and Unicorn’s Here | For 2026 season, this time written and directed by the venue’s Artistic Director David Brady. It is a one man show, with Samuel Warren playing […]
Simon Ward reviews The Other Room at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre Here | For 2026 is a season of four shows over five weeks running at the Lion and Unicorn designed to showcase promising new work. Sarah Rickman’s brilliantly written and almost unbearably moving new play certainly […]
Simon Ward reviews What The Animals Say at the Finborough Theatre Written in 2009, this is David Ireland’s first play and his trademark themes of how life in Northern Ireland is often absurd and frequently violent are already in evidence. So too is the outrageously hilarious dark humour […]
Simon Ward reviews Sweet Victory at the Etcetera Theatre In this new play, written and directed by Elise Marra, we are introduced to two combatants in the American Revolutionary war, one on each side. John Thomas (Mikkie-denè Le Roux) is a soldier on the American side, John Smith […]
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