Following closely on the tail of the Olivier Awards is this year’s Also Recognised Awards. The awards are audience voted and were originally set up by theatre commentators Mark Shenton and Terri Paddock to celebrate lesser-known but equally worthy talent in fields overlooked by other awards bodies. There […]
If descending to the basement of foodie-destination restaurant Carousel felt like entering a Reservoir Dogs-style film set, that was entirely in keeping with the reimagining of the 13th century feud of the Capulets and the Montagues as a world of two rival Mafia gangs battling for control […]
Following hot on the heels of his success with Pornography at Sedos, brilliant young director Chris Davis has scored another hit with this extraordinary production of a play which caused such controversy at its first run in London that it was banned. I don’t know whether The Children’s […]
This play is diverting and entertaining but entirely unremarkable – most notably let down by the hackneyed phrases and unoriginal dialogue of Gavin Davis’ script which is full of rehashed scenarios and family dynamics. The play begins at an interview in a therapist’s office where dialogue between Chris […]
After the success of last summer’s ‘DNA’, ‘The Young Pretenders’ are back with their contribution to the National Theatre Connections 500 Festival, with their performance of Stacey Gregg’s ‘I’m Spilling My Heart Out Here’; a fairly shallow play about the trivial difficulties of teenage life. The script […]
A play which takes forty minutes before engaging its core plot had better have a good reason for doing so. Among such good reasons might be intriguing staging, fascinating characters, or maybe some point being made about how plot is an empty concept. Sadly, Every One had none […]
Watching Eli Kent’s All Your Wants + Needs Fulfilled Forever and trying to discern the overall message or theme was very similar to trying to play catch with a moistened bar of soap – I’ve got it, no wait…it’s gone again. No wait I actually think I have […]
This is a play of dual narratives, the stage dominated by two monolithic vertical sections of railway tracks. In 1973, sullen teen Dinah (Hannah Stephens) arrives from care to be fostered by batty but endearing widow, Lotte (Juliet Welch). In World War II, Lotte (Hannah Stephens) is sent […]
With the distinctively unique smell of dry ice clogging my nostrils I shuffled down the isle of seats in the gloomy half-light of the Arcola theatre. Musing away the minutes before the show started, I dwelt on previous theatre experiences; dry ice always puts me in mind of […]
Songs for the End of the World is a wondrous mix of song and storytelling. A combination of Kneehigh and Little Bulb talents, the performers create a dystopian world set in New Albion; a world with so few ‘safe zones’ that the human race look to Mars to […]
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