Simon Ward reviews The Whisper Comes Before The Plant at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Nia Braidford’s new play, in which she also plays the role of Faith, is an ambitious and compelling exploration of the reality of living with mental illness and the after-effects of a coercive-controlling […]
Simon Ward reviews I’m A Philosopher Why The #@$% Am I Here? It is a very funny premise for a comedy show. Take a bunch of philosophers, whose stock in trade is to unpick the differences between appearance and reality, and place them in the egregiously unreal world […]
Simon Ward reviews Baby Brain at the Bridewell Theatre I have done a few reviews over the years where the subject matter is so much more important than my opinion of the show that it feels almost irrelevant. This is one such production. Endorsed by the charity Action […]
Simon Ward reviews Londongrad :Tech Takeover at the Courtyard Theatre One has to feel for political satirists writing in the current febrile climate. No sooner has one scandal broken than there is a string of resignations and a whole new crew has stepped in to start all over […]
Simon Ward reviews Pews At Ten at the Hope Theatre The tiny city of St David’s or Tyddewi in Wales, has a population of well under two thousand, but is home to a rather splendid cathedral. And it is here that lifelong friends Dilys (Nia Brooks, who also […]
Simon Ward reviews This Year I Am Going To Die at the Hen and Chickens Theatre As this one man show begins, the audience are attendees at the funeral of Jojo (Jonas Feind). He is prostrate on the floor clutching a sunflower, as though in an open coffin. […]
SImon Ward reviews Are You There Moriarty? at Playhouse East Running as part of a double bill with Watershed at Playhouse East, which looks like a flat-roofed pub repurposed as a cafe/bar with a theatre space above. In the unseasonably hot May weather it was a challenge for […]
Simon Ward reviews Dreamweavers at the Free Association The Free Association is a new comedy club nestling under the Waterloo arches right next to the Union Theatre, adding to the burgeoning list of venues in this corner of south east London. Siblings is the comedy vehicle for real-life […]
Simon Ward reviews FLUSH at the Arcola Theatre Writer and performer April Hope Miller and director Merle Wheldon bring their 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit, FLUSH, to the Arcola for a month-long run. The set-up is deceptively simple. Taking place over one evening in the lavatory of a […]
Simon Ward reviews Stanislavski Can’t Save Me from the Apocalypse at the Barons Court Theatre Written and directed by Maggie Dickinson, Stanislavski Can’t Save Me from the Apocalypse is a dark comedy based partly on what must be Dickinson’s lived experience of Theatre Camp. That curious American obsession with spending […]
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