Simon Ward reviews Miraculous at the Old Red Lion Theatre Luke Stiles’s new play, in which he also plays Josh, has its roots in the American tradition of children and older teenagers spending at least part of their summer away in the countryside at camp, while their parents […]
Simon Ward reviews Two Strangers and a Clipboard at the Etcetera Theatre Written and directed by Maria Speight, this is a piece presented as workshop preview prior to a planned summer festival run. Set in a universe that has some overlaps with ours – Celine Dion, cassette tapes, […]
Simon Ward reviews SALT at the Riverside Studios The company Contemporary Ritual Theatre (CRT), who here present Beau Hopkins’s play SALT, are based in Great Yarmouth, but this tale long predates its days as a seaside resort. It is steeped in the ancient lore of the sea, from […]
Simon Ward reviews The Red Prince at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre The term ‘Red Prince’ was first used as a tongue-in-cheek epithet for the sons of Labour grandees who had decided to go into politics and, it was implied, because of their pedigree, got distinctly preferential treatment […]
Simon Ward reviews The Sound Of Absence at the Omnibus Theatre The Peg is approached to review many more shows than we can possibly cover, so there has to be a sifting process to choose which ones to write about. I generally try to pick pieces that seem […]
Simon Ward reviews EXPÖSED at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre My heart usually sinks at the prospect of a play written by its cast. It is hard to make a piece work as a coherent whole when everyone is chipping in. But this fear is utterly unfounded with […]
Simon Ward reviews Mrs. President at the Charing Cross Theatre When Keala Settle makes her entrance as Mary Lincoln in John Ransom Phillips’s play, there is a momentary pause when she poses, framed and majestic, as though waiting for the applause with which a Broadway audience would greet […]
Simon Ward reviews Mother.Dad at the Omnibus Theatre This two-hander comprises the narration of two, apparently unrelated, stories by ‘Him’ (Andy Sellers) and ‘Her’ (Toyin Ayedun-Alase), and is performed with utter conviction. Playwright Doug Deans’ writing manages to convey a panoramic overview of life in Britain today, but, […]
Simon Ward reviews The Boline Inn at the Hope Theatre For anyone who might be unaware, a boline is a white-handled ritual knife used in Wicca. So, much like The Slaughtered Lamb pub in the 1981 comedy-horror classic movie An American Werewolf In London, the name of the […]
Simon Ward reviews Wilder! at the Etcetera Theatre This barely categorisable play written by its leading actors Thomas Billiouw and Dany Van Brabant deserves to be seen by a wider audience than can cram into the tiny Etcetera Theatre. The punning title must surely include an homage to […]
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