Simon Ward reviews Dreamweavers at the Free Association The Free Association is a new comedy club nestling under the Waterloo arches right next to the Union Theatre, adding to the burgeoning list of venues in this corner of south east London. Siblings is the comedy vehicle for real-life […]
Simon Ward reviews FLUSH at the Arcola Theatre Writer and performer April Hope Miller and director Merle Wheldon bring their 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit, FLUSH, to the Arcola for a month-long run. The set-up is deceptively simple. Taking place over one evening in the lavatory of a […]
Simon Ward reviews Stanislavski Can’t Save Me from the Apocalypse at the Barons Court Theatre Written and directed by Maggie Dickinson, Stanislavski Can’t Save Me from the Apocalypse is a dark comedy based partly on what must be Dickinson’s lived experience of Theatre Camp. That curious American obsession with spending […]
Simon Ward reviews Core Values at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Written and directed by co-star Alice Dempsey, Core Values is a series of vignettes – snapshots and brief scenes to provide insight into the lives of protagonists here known as Player A (Cécile Fayter), Player B (Alice […]
Simon Ward reviews Howie The Rookie at The Cockpit Mark O’Rowe’s multi-award winning 1999 play, Howie The Rookie, is brought to the very freshly refurbished Cockpit under the direction of US-based theatre maker Jerome Davis. The piece is very firmly rooted in its working class Dublin milieu – […]
Simon Ward reviews The Sequel at the King’s Head Theatre Lucas Closs’s new comedy-drama The Sequel is a hugely entertaining extended riff on what it means to be a writer and what any writer owes to the people and places where they find their inspiration. It is a […]
Simon Ward reviews The Witch and The Whistleblower at The Glitch With all due respect to modern-day followers of Wicca, we would normally associate witches with either fairytales or the distant past. By contrast, ‘whistleblower’ is a much more recent term with connotations of corporate or professional wrongdoing. […]
Simon Ward reviews Fickle Eulogy at the Circle & Star Theatre I first encountered Nikol Kollars’s solo show, directed by Javier Galitó-Cava, in August last year (The Long Goodbye). I found it deeply moving then, and, I am happy to report, a second viewing did not disappoint. The […]
Simon Ward reviews Rowling In It at the King’s Head Theatre Written and performed by Laura Kay Bailey, and directed by Dominic Shaw, Rowling In It is a fictionalised account of what she experienced when she agreed to play the part of JK Rowling in a show at […]
Simon Ward reviews Concrete at the Hope Theatre Written and directed by Ché Tligui, Concrete is framed as a classic drawing room drama, but with a working class twist, such that the ‘drawing room’ in question is the tiny living room in a two-up two down council house […]
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