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.
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The Talented Mr Ripley, Wilton’s Music Hall – Review
Because film is such a powerful medium it naturally becomes a reference point for any stage adaptation. The Talented Mr Ripley is a perfect example, coming twenty years after the big screen version starring Matt Damon and Jude Law. Here…
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Does My Bomb Look Big in This, Soho Theatre – Review
Does My Bomb Look Big in This? was born from actor Nyla Levy’s dissatisfaction with being typecast as a ‘jihadi bride’. It deals with teenager Yasmin’s (played by Levy) slow enticement into, what she thinks, is a hopeful new life…
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Othello, Brunel Museum, Rotherhithe – Review
The hierarchy between Othello (Peace Oseyenum) and the sneaky network of unfaithfuls beneath him/her (although the actors are female, the characters are still their original gender) is set up around the stairs, at the outset of the play, which wouldn’t…
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LEMONS LEMONS LEMONS, Barons Court Theatre – Review
A funny, prescient and revealing drama that cleverly spins a big tale
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Don’t Look Away, Pleasance Theatre – Review
Well-made refugee drama that doesn’t need its abstract trimmings.
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Fuck You Pay Me, The Bunker – Review
An education, a celebration, and a warning
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Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem, Old Red Lion Theatre – Review
an intense, sometimes bumpy ride ultimately wins through with superior storytelling
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INK, Tristan Bates Theatre – Review
A tasting menu of nine short, sharp, witty plays that leaves you fully sated
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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…
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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…