Abigail Bryant reviews Eggsistentialism at Arcola Theatre At a time when the very notions of motherhood and reproduction are rich with fluid debate, Joanne Ryan’s Eggsistentialism is a poignant, engaging and illuminative exploration of gender and fertility. Narrated autobiographically, 35-year-old Joanne invites us to delve into her innermost […]
Abigail Bryant reviews Tiny Dynamite at Old Red Lion Theatre Bringing Abi Morgan’s Tiny Dynamite to the stage for the first time in 15 years, Time Productions have injected an ethereal and immersive ambiance to a beautifully complex play that deals with chance, regret, grief and friendship among other […]
Doodle The Musical Waterloo East Theatre 12th January 2018 Simon Ward reviews Doodle The Musical at the Waterloo East Theatre One of the abiding mysteries to our soon-to-be former friends in Europe is Britain’s never ending fascination with the Second World War. And certainly TV sitcoms in the […]
Abigail Bryant reviews FCUK’D at The Bunker, Southwark. By nature of its name, FCUK’D doesn’t scream festive cheer – and Niall Ransome’s hour-long monologue certainly approaches Christmas spirit from an alternative angle. Set in Hull, FCUK’D explores child homelessness against the bitter December cold and an unfair, seemingly […]
Simon Ward reviews Good Girl at The Old Red Lion, Islington. On a stage bare but for a raised gold-painted circular platform, Naomi Sheldon gingerly dips her toe and then plunges headlong into an exhilarating, exhausting hour of confessional, squirmingly honest, often hilarious talk. This piece was a […]
Linda Anderson reviews Bad Roads at the Royal Court Part of the International Playwrights programme at the Royal Court, Bad Roads provides a series of savage snapshots of the war in Ukraine. Told from a female perspective, we see how women adapt to find love, avoid abuse and […]
Simon Ward reviews No Place Like Hope at The Old Red Lion, Islington Even by the standards of theatre-rooms-above-pubs, the Old Red Lion is a particularly intimate space. If you sit at the front you are almost part of the scenery, or intruding on someone’s privacy. Especially […]
Simon Ward reviews Dracula at Sutton House, Hackney Like his fellow icons of horror, Frankenstein and Jekyll and Hyde, Dracula has a cultural resonance out of all proportion to the few people who are familiar with the 19th-century source material. They seem to tap in to atavistic […]
Simon Ward reviews Tom Stoppard’s If You’re Glad, I’ll Be Frank at The Hen and Chickens First things first. The setup of this play will be virtually incomprehensible to anyone under the age of about forty – it takes us back to the days when there was […]
Simon Ward reviews Fever Pitch The Opera at The Union Chapel The Union Chapel can lay claim to be the very heart of Islington, with the Town Hall just down the road, and the old Highbury Stadium a short walk away for the fans streaming out of the […]
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