I have never been to a production of Shakespeare where the wonderful words of the great Bard himself are so entirely irrelevant as in Shit-Faced Shakespeare. Lights go down, plastic wine caps are unscrewed (classy theatre goers that we are) and we eagerly await a play which has […]
This is Sasha Regan’s All-Male Production of H.M.S. Pinafore, so Gilbert and Sullivan purists be warned. The conceit is that the production is being staged in the hold of a World War II battleship as the men are passing the time and letting off steam. The programme […]
In a touching tribute to television icon, Larry Grayson, Chris Mellor paints the picture of the kind and camp comedian who played host to the Generation Game throughout the 70s and 80s. Unfortunately, I was a twinkle in my father’s eye at this moment in time (a metaphor which […]
Georg Buchner’s Woyzeck is a play from 1836, but because it was left unfinished has been taken as the jumping off point of a number of celebrated and unorthodox interpretations, most notably perhaps Alban Berg’s 1922 opera Wozzeck. What happens is considerably less important than the way in […]
Does a mother love her children unconditionally? Not according to Hilda, the elderly foster carer in this award winning two-hander. From years of experience she knows that caring for a child requires a great deal of responsibility and self-sacrifice, but she also knows that many mothers lack those […]
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 […]
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