Monologues. They can fill an audience’s heart with dread, knowing that you are relying on a single actor and minimal props for the best part of an hour. Actors love them on the other hand. All eyes on them alone, their job to beguile the audience with their […]
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 […]
Here’s what’s on top of our To See list this month. They’re all Off West End shows, and some of them we’ve already been in to see. The rest will be reviewed throughout the month, but all come highly recommended. 1. Kenny Morgan at the Arcola Theatre London, […]
Smoking Apples produce theatre that combines puppetry and visual imagery, and are known for their unconventional choice of subject matter. In their latest production they tackle the fishing industry, showing the problems faced by small independent fisheries. Our main puppet character is Alf, a man who has fished […]
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 […]
In this distilled version of the 2014 Royal Court production, Tim Crouch explores our relationship with art and our sense of reality and what is ‘real’. During the course of the production the fictional artist, Janet Adler, is woven into academia, exploited by the film industry and commodified […]
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 […]
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