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 Philosophy of the World at the Yard Theatre The newly refurbished Yard Theatre re-opens with a show that was a big hit at last year’s Edinburgh Fringe – Philosophy of the World presented by In Bed With My Brother. Confused? You will be. In Bed […]
Simon Ward reviews Kaddish (How To Be A Sanctuary) at the Old Red Lion Theatre Following an award-winning run at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, Sam Sherman brings this deeply personal play to London, prior to a to Prague. Written and performed by Sherman, it is co-created and directed […]
Simon Ward reviews Poison at The Cockpit Theatre The setting of Poison, written by Dutch playwright Lot Vekemans and here translated by Rina Vergano, seems to be set in continental Europe. The fact that our two protagonists, He (Martin Maynard) and She (Lynne Livingstone) are English and Scottish […]
Simon Ward reviews Player at the Riverside Studios If Matthew Lyon’s new play has a distinctly Berkoffian look and feel, that is hardly surprising as Lyon explicitly credits Steven Berkoff’s Actor as the inspiration for this rumination on the trials and tribulations of the actor’s life. On a […]
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 Core Values at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Written and directed by co-star Alice Dempsey, Core Values is a series of vignettes – snapshots and brief scenes to provide insight into the lives of protagonists here known as Player A (Cécile Fayter), Player B (Alice […]
Simon Ward reviews Howie The Rookie at The Cockpit Mark O’Rowe’s multi-award winning 1999 play, Howie The Rookie, is brought to the very freshly refurbished Cockpit under the direction of US-based theatre maker Jerome Davis. The piece is very firmly rooted in its working class Dublin milieu – […]
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. […]
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