Abigail Bryant reviews Landmines at OvalHouse In today’s political climate, it is difficult to view a play such as Landmines completely objectively, and Phil Davies’ new play provokes and stimulates ideas and emotions that are the forefront of both the media and personal mind-sets. The BRIT Theatre Company […]
Sam Lewes reviews Bullshit London (Factually Incorrect Walking Tours) If you’ve spent any time in central London, specifically Westminster and the Southbank over the past few years, you’ll no doubt have had the irritable task of trudging past a tour group, wishing that they would get out of […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews Bridle at Camden People’s Theatre Three women roam the stage wearing large silicone horse heads. You might be forgiven for thinking you’ve walked into an art installation but this is a distinctly straight-talking play. And, when the horse heads come off, Bridle becomes an explosive […]
Simon Ward reviews The Plague at The Arcola Theatre Albert Camus’s 1947 novel ‘La Peste’ uses the symbol of the plague to discuss France’s wartime occupation and her colonial relationships in Algeria and elsewhere. A nation may be infected for a time, then recover; but, as we learn, the […]
Paul Caira reviews Expensive Shit at Soho Theatre This is an inventive piece of theatre whose boundaries are indistinct, unlike those of the cell-like cube in which the action takes place. The steel verticals which frame the imaginary mirrors on the walls of the toilets in which the […]
Simon Ward reviews Posh at The Pleasance Theatre Posh is a polemic on the class system, which gained much of its original salience from playing while the election that brought the Bullingdon Club into office was going on. As the late, great Peter Cook opined, its success was […]
Simon Ward reviews The Significant Other Festival; Conditions at The Vaults This is a series of eleven short plays, ten minutes each, commissioned by The Pensive Federation and written over the course of 5 days around the theme of The Significant Other, however that might be interpreted, and loosely […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews Testament at Vault Festival Four Bible characters are plucked from the pages of the holy book and thrust into the C21st by Old Sole Theatre Company. In the safe environs of a church meeting, the four characters share their painful pasts, not necessarily to open […]
Simon Ward reviews On The Crest Of A Wave at Vault Festival I don’t know how much theatre, if any, went on in the air raid shelters of WWII, but this show in The Cavern theatre at The Vaults delivers a convincing impression of what it would have […]
Abigail Bryant reviews This Must Be The Place at Vault Festival Poleroid Theatre’s This Must Be The Place insists from the outset that it ‘is not a London story.’ Despite taking place underneath the beating and rattling heart of the Capital in Waterloo’s Vaults it certainly delivers on […]
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