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, […]
We thought these shows were amazing, as did the people at EdFringe HQ and The Scotsman because they made them the recipients of a Fringe First Award. Both Tank and Counting Sheep were recipients of a First Fringe Award. What we didn’t get to see, but hope they […]
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 […]
We came across Dead Awaken performing on a Virgin Money stage on the Royal Mile. We stopped to watch and were handed a flyer. The snippet we previewed was rap, but it was hard to hear over the bustle of the crowds and with little to go on […]
There’s warm lighting, bare brick, dusty air, and it’s been a scorching day in London. Stepping into ‘Children of Eden’ didn’t feel very far from the deserts of the Biblical Middle East at all. The design of the show (by Kingsley Hall) is pleasingly earthy and bare; the […]
Shakespeare ReFASHIONed is a series of events at Selfridges which mark the 400th anniversary of The Bard’s death, with the focal point being a performance of Much Ado. The collaboration is an intriguing idea, in many ways Selfridges – frequent winner of the accolade ‘The Best Department Store […]
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 […]
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