Intricately woven, a triumphant success won’t be this show’s strangest achievement
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Review: Jungle Book Reimagined, Festival Theatre Edinburgh
Challenges how we impact the people, animals and environments.
Read More »Review: Spring Awakening, Almeida Theatre
fresh and innovative
Read More »Albion, Almeida Theatre – Review
Mike Bartlett and the Almeida appear set to have an equally successful season for 2020
Read More »Glass. Kill. Bluebeard. Imp, Royal Court Theatre – Review
Starting rather emotionally frozen, Glass is the story of a young girl made entirely of glass, and the comic and tragic reality of her doomed love. Maybe in comparison to the older casts that follow, this younger set of performers never really get into their stride. Despite being suspended ethereally on a wooden plank in the air the piece feels rather flat. Kill is up next, following the blood-soaked stories of the curse of the house of Atreus. Exposing their ...
Read More »Machinal, Almeida Theatre – Review
Pros: A brilliantly constructed set is a visually stunning accompaniment to the play. Cons: The disappointingly clipped nine episode format slows the plot down far too often for its own good. The Almeida is one of my favourite theatres so I pounced on the opportunity to see Machinal, by Sophie Treadwell. Both play and author were unfamiliar to me; stylistically Treadwell has apparently been compared to Virginia Woolf and is viewed as a leading purveyor of expressionism. The play, written in 1928, ...
Read More »Anna Nicole, Royal Opera House – Review
A show so superb that its over the top glamour, glitz and profanity will leave you begging for more!
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