An entertaining and funny couple of hours
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Review: Word Play, Royal Court Theatre
An enjoyable short play, exploring the effect of words and language, that is both funny and thought provoking.
Read More »Review: It’s a Motherf**king Pleasure, Soho Theatre
OMG! The PR Agency ‘Rize’ has been accused of being ‘ableist’ so the big guns have been brought in to do something about it. Shall we embark upon a course of action involving fact finding, learning and improvement? No, of course not. Let’s make some money. Enter unscrupulous, blind talent manager Tim (Samuel Brewer) who has a cunning plan. He manipulates and uses blind influencer Ross (Aarian Mehrabani) to use his disability for some money-making schemes. So, posting on the ...
Read More »Review: Cymbeline, The Greenwood Theatre
An enjoyable production of one of Shakespeare's rarely performed plays
Read More »Review: Their Finest Hour, Waterloo East Theatre
Waterloo East Theatre is a good venue for a WWII play. It seems like you are sitting in a giant, damp Anderson Shelter with distant rumbling which could easily be imagined as aircraft approaching (or departing). Add to that some early 1940’s songs, a stage with an old radio, Bakelight telephone and maps of Europe over the wall and we’re all set. Their Finest Hour is not a facts and figures history lesson, nor does it set out to be ...
Read More »Review: I was a German, VAULT Festival
Creative and absorbing account of one man’s escape from oppression in Nazi Germany
Read More »Review: The Critic, Calder Bookshop and Theatre
An entertaining, two-handed black comedy
Read More »Review: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe , The Gillian Lynne Theatre
An enjoyable family friendly musical.
Read More »Review: Gabriel Byrne’s Walking with Ghosts, Apollo Theatre
Evocative tales of the ghosts of his past.
Read More »Review: Wonderville, Wonderville
Enjoyable and entertaining cabaret-style evening
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