Peter Hamilton’s Playground is billed as a murder mystery set in a fragmented, broken society. Supposedly, it follows an investigation into the decapitation of several small children, all of which are found with an Enid Blyton novel laid open on their murdered bodies. In reality, the premise of this gruesome story is […]
An empty room full of boxes, an absent mother and two warring sisters. ‘The Backward Fall’ is billed as a play about Alzheimer’s, but it’s less about the mother who suffers from the condition and more about the effect it has on her daughters. The sisters’ relationship reflects […]
Here’s where I stand on acrobats. (Insert joke here). I like them, I do. They are incredibly fit and strong and do things which an ordinary person not only couldn’t do without a huge injection of talent, but even then couldn’t do without a body transfusion or in […]
As the country hit election fever-pitch, the capital has been awash with political theatre. Stories of grubby Westminster intrigue have been served to people like me who, for some reason, just can’t get enough of it all. The Candidate comes from The Lab Collective, a company that specialises […]
The Litvinenko Project is a site-responsive piece of theatre, but don’t let that buzz word put you off. Quite rightly, a play about the Russian spy who was poisoned with polonium-laced tea should be staged in a café, and this show is just one of many innovative pieces […]
In the truest sense of the work Rove is a confessional piece of theatre. Charmingly honest, J. Fergus Evans tells us stories of his family’s history using straight narrative, narrative poetry and folk music. His purpose is twofold; he wants to show the slippery nature of family anecdotes, […]
We all crave our 15 minutes of fame and George Pooter, Victorian clerk and fanatical bore, decides that he too should not go unnoticed. He declares, “I fail to see that because I do not happen to be a ‘somebody’ why my diary should not be interesting.” Pooter […]
Anyone familiar with the background of ‘Bat Boy’ won’t be surprised to hear that the 1997 musical written in his honour, now playing at Southwark Playhouse, is every bit as bizarre as the story surrounding the Bat Boy himself. That story goes something like this: in 1992 the […]
503Fusion is a collection of four short plays; entitled Night, Morning, Afternoon and Night II – but don’t let the unimaginative titles throw you, because this festival of spoken word presents some powerful storytelling, which mixes sound and voice to explore the chaotic realities of living within the […]
Down in Trafalgar Studios 2 there’s a double act of Dickens running. The following is a double review- one for each show in its own right: Sikes & Nancy Sikes & Nancy is a one-man play full of grotesque characters and monstrous behaviour. Making the most of the […]
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