Lynne Hague reviews Where Do Little Birds Go? Camilla Whitehill’s one act play builds a vivid picture of one teenage girl’s experience of life in the mid 60s. In a strong performance by Jessica Butcher we follow the story of 24-year-old Lucy Fuller, who recollects how she left […]
Harriet Bignell reviews The Marked at Oval House In an insightful and conscience pricking performance, Theatre Temoin provide a chilling glimpse into the life of homeless Jack, on the streets of London. In an eerie opening, the characters perform a sequence of movements which move Jack from sinister […]
Charlotte Pegram reviews Skin A Cat at The Bunker A fabulous way to launch the inaugural season at The Bunker, Skin A Cat by Isley Lynn fits the underground space hand in glove. A double bed sits centre stage with very little else to distract from this intimate story […]
Kenny Morgan is based on playwright Terence Rattigan’s real life love affair with the titular actor – a tale of torment that Mike Poulton tells now in imagined fact rather than Rattigan’s fiction, resulting in a script dusted with ironic discussion of the arts and performance. For someone unfamiliar […]
Two Man Show is the newest addition to the Rashdash family and it’s easy to see links to their previous shows (We Want You To Watch, Ugly Sisters) both in terms of its bold form and its rebellious content, but it’s by far their best creation. Using song, […]
Combine a pinch of Grease with your average American chick-flick, mix it together with a big dollop of ladies night sentiment and you have the fun, bubbly and fabulously sound-tracked musical that is Vanities. In its European debut, the musical explores poignant themes of unmet ambitions and expectations […]
This is a deliciously closely-observed play about infidelity, both the venturous and the vengeful kinds, hilariously funny while being moving without sentimentality. Middle-aged Tom (Sean Campion) has just confessed to an opportunistic liaison with a woman he met in a pub and his wife, Joan (Niamh Cusack) is […]
The title If We Could Get Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You will win no prizes for brevity and does rather shout ‘fringe theatre’ but the play itself deserves to be seen by as wide an audience as possible. It is a moving, […]
With a string of five-star reviews from several of the country’s top newspapers, Simon Stone’s Yerma is becoming one of London’s must-see shows – and with it, Billie Piper is cementing her status a star of London theatre. Yerma, originally written in the Spain in the 1930s, has […]
Hamlet Part II is one of a trilogy of parodies by Perry Pontac called ‘Codpieces’. On the evidence of this evening’s offering, I will be eagerly seeking out the other two parts. The opening funereal music is abruptly interrupted, as in a ‘problem’ play, by the arrival of […]