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Review: Rumble!, Drayton Arms Theatre
doesn’t quite land its punches
Read More »Review: Miss Margarida’s Way, Etcetera Theatre
A hugely entertaining, funny and shocking satire
Read More »Virelogne, Drayton Arms Theatre – Review
An enjoyable and funny tale about women, war and human morality.
Read More »Rudimentary, Drayton Arms Theatre -Review
Very much a promising work-in-progress, but great fun and hopefully it will return more polished next time out
Read More »The Problem With Fletcher Mott, Drayton Arms Theatre – Review
There is something exhilarating about seeing a work in progress, especially when it’s from a team surely only just out of their teens! There’s an energy created you just don’t get at normal press nights. Ok, so that’s because the place is full of friends and family along to support, but that means an excitable youthful atmosphere that is just so joyous to be part of. Secondly, the anticipation that you might be witnessing something special that may one day ...
Read More »Boujie, Drayton Arms Theatre – Review
A well-meaning but overly ambitious first outing by new theatre company Unshaded Arts.
Read More »Jake, Drayton Arms Theatre – Review
Pros: It’s not often you can say that an office chair put in a sterling performance, but here it almost steals the whole show. Cons: Still very much a work in progress, and there is an imbalance that will need addressing. Roddy Frame’s ‘Loneliness and being alone don’t always mean the same’ has always been a song line that plays in my head regularly. But it wasn’t a line I expected to come to mind whilst watching Jake, the debut show from ...
Read More »Love, Genius and a Walk, Drayton Arms Theatre – Review
Pros: A potted history of artistic life in early 20th century Vienna, seen through the eyes of a 21st century writer. Music, architecture, art and psychoanalysis. From Freud to Jung, Klimt to Kokoschka, they all get a look in. Cons: Words get the better of everyone, on and off Sigmund’s couch. If music is the food of love, here both are thwarted in this tale of two composers, one triumphant, the other downtrodden. Gustav Mahler and Sigmund Freud meet in Leiden and ...
Read More »Play Something, Drayton Arms Theatre – Review
A charming little play that can't help but make you laugh and smile with the familiarity it will bring to mind, but it feels like it needs a little more body.
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