Drama
A staple for us and for many if you fancy a more traditional play. When we first started Everything Theatre it was specifically to review drama. We’ve branched out over the years, but it will always be a favourite of ours.
-
LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, Barons Court Theatre – Review
A funny, prescient and revealing drama that cleverly spins a big tale
-
Don’t Look Away, Pleasance Theatre – Review
Well-made refugee drama that doesn’t need its abstract trimmings.
-
Fuck You Pay Me, The Bunker – Review
An education, a celebration, and a warning
-
Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem, Old Red Lion Theatre – Review
an intense, sometimes bumpy ride ultimately wins through with superior storytelling
-
INK, Tristan Bates Theatre – Review
A tasting menu of nine short, sharp, witty plays that leaves you fully sated
-
The Reality, Cervantes Theatre – Review
The Reality is one of those ‘Marmite effect’ plays. If you enjoy your philosophy lessons and revel in conversations that have a more confusing end than beginning, then you’ll probably love it. However, if you run away from grandiose discourses…
-
Out of Water, Orange Tree Theatre – Review
Zoe Cooper’s Jess and Joe Forever, premiered in 2016, was my favourite show of the year. An exuberant hit of sweet, sticky romcom, and a nourishing examination of class, gender and rural English life, it fizzed with the joy of…
-
Neck Or Nothing, Pleasance Theatre – Review
Is mental health funny? Is it acceptable to laugh about depression? Fledgling Theatre, makers of Neck or Nothing, definitely vote yes. The good news is they have created a warm, accessible and laugh-out-loud show as a result. It might well…
-
Funeral Flowers, The Bunker – Review
If you’ll forgive the ad pitch, flowers suit nearly every occasion. A loving declaration, celebratory congratulations, or a sorrowful consolation. Living things that bloom and die, flowers represent beauty and sorrow, life and death. In Funeral Flowers they represent something…
-
Better Than Sex: The Story of Mae West, Toulouse Lautrec – Review
Emily Hutt’s tell-all cabaret on the 1930’s limelight icon Mae West follows almost pedantically the chronology of her life events, to the detriment of a sought-after dramatic climax. West – embodied by the talented Bella Bevan – takes centre stage…