Simon Ward reviews The Witch and The Whistleblower at The Glitch With all due respect to modern-day followers of Wicca, we would normally associate witches with either fairytales or the distant past. By contrast, ‘whistleblower’ is a much more recent term with connotations of corporate or professional wrongdoing. […]
Simon Ward reviews Fickle Eulogy at the Circle & Star Theatre I first encountered Nikol Kollars’s solo show, directed by Javier Galitó-Cava, in August last year (The Long Goodbye). I found it deeply moving then, and, I am happy to report, a second viewing did not disappoint. The […]
Simon Ward reviews Riki Lindhome: Dead Inside at the Soho Theatre Riki Lindhome brings her Edinburgh Fringe hit to Soho. She is known for her roles in the Netflix series Wednesday as well as The Big Bang Theory. She is the ‘Garfunkel’ half of the brilliantly named comedy music duo […]
Simon Ward reviews Monologues of Men at the Old Red Lion Theatre Long time collaborators Francis Saunders and Dean Stalham have teamed up again, this time with Saunders writing and performing, and Stalham directing. I have long been an admirer of Stalham’s work (see Waiting for God and […]
Simon Ward reviews Poppies at the Camden People’s Theatre Running as part of this year’s SPRINT Festival for new work at the Camden People’s Theatre, Poppies is an intensely personal piece written by the cast, Jim Spencer Broadbent and Johnjoe Irwin. They play versions of themselves ‘Jim’ who […]
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 Old Fat F**k Up at the Riverside Studios Olly Hawes has set up camp at the Riverside Studios – as well as this show, in a week or so, he will be alternating performances with his previous play F**king Legend so he must be doing […]
Simon Ward reviews Romeo and Juliet – The Hate Story at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Directed by Annie Araba, this is the debut play of Brazilian writer-performer-producer Lucas Luan Lima. He and co-star George Bird play Romeo and Juliet, plus a number of the other characters familiar […]
Simon Ward reviews Mary’s Daughters at The Space Theatre The Space is a theatre and arts venue in the heart of the Isle of Dogs. It is housed in a former Victorian Presbyterian church, which is an intriguing historical artefact in its own right. It was acquired by […]
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