Enjoyable and humorous scaled down version with good performances and an excellent sound track.
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Reputation, The Other Palace – Review
Squished into the studio space of The Other Palace, Reputation follows ambitious budding writer Michelle Grant as she fights the comically evil plagiariser and El-Capone knockoff Freddy Larceny (see what they did there with the last name?) who has stolen her novel and made it into a hit film. No doubt there is talent and effort within the piece. Some lovely choreography from Tamsyn Salter provides the classic teeth and jazz hands glamour that (some) musicals require and keeps the ...
Read More »Who They Were, Etc Theatre – Review
Engaging thanks to spirited performances from a keen young cast.
Read More »Sydney & the Old Girl, Park Theatre – Review
Eugene O’Hare’s latest production, Sydney and the Old Girl, is about an ill-tempered old woman and her miserable son, living together in an East London flat. The pair despise each other but also depend on each other. Nell (Miriam Margoyles) claims that her son, Sydney (Mark Hadfield), makes her skin crawl, while Sydney refers to his mother as a ‘deaf old snatch’. The hatred between them is palpable, hilarious, and occasionally bordering on the depressing. The entrance of Nell’s carer, ...
Read More »I Do! I Do!, Upstairs at The Gatehouse – Review
Worth checking out for charming performances in a great venue and lovely pub.
Read More »Germ Free Adolescent, The Bunker – Review
A lively script in a well-structured two-hander.
Read More »Soho Cinders, Charing Cross Theatre – Review
Exuberant and funny musical based on the Cinderella fairy tale
Read More »On Bear Ridge, Royal Court Thatre – Review
A one act play that could be a modern-day Kafka
Read More »Beryl, Arcola Theatre – Review
The story of the original rebel girl
Read More »Little Baby Jesus, Orange Three Theatre – Review
Full of sass and dripping in attitude
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