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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Pain(t), New Wimbledon Theatre – Review
Spectators expecting to receive an interpretation of Richard Foreman’s Pain(t) might be utterly disappointed, as this play is intended to be entirely devoid of meaning. This is by admission of Patrick Kennedy, the creative mind behind this European premiere of…
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Feed, The Vaults – Review
Feed presents the surreal and dangerous of online life - high melodrama rather than social critique.”
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The Project, White Bear Theatre – Review
It’s 1942 in a transit camp in Holland. Four Jewish detainees make up the camp’s concert party: impresario Victor (Lloyd Morris), dancer Anna (Faye Maghan), her sister Millie (Eloise Jones) and Anna’s lover Peter (Nick Devallé). When Millie discovers that…
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CIRCA, Old Red Lion Theatre – Review
Having connected online, a pretty young man (Thomas Flynn) and a bulky older guy (Antony Gabriel) meet for an unsuccessful sexual encounter. Then the pretty boy plays a strip game with a friend (and lover?) who tries to discourage him…
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Classified, Tristan Bates Theatre – Review
Entering the small space to the sound of gunfire we saw all four cast members on stage in poses hinting at their roles to come. Some of the audience seating was a bit wobbly, but it was a short production…
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A Hundred Words For Snow, Trafalgar Studio 2 – Review
Reminds us that the world can be such a wonderful place.
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Footfalls & Plays, Jack Studio Theatre – Review
For Plays, three identical urns contain a man, his wife and his mistress as they relive their perspectives of the affair in rapid and eccentric fashion. It’s quirky, and so off the wall, but also captivating and charming. Three actors…
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Three Shades, Ram Jam Records, Kingston – Review
A bare footed lady, head to foot in black, slowly walks from behind us to the stage. It’s a compelling sight to open any play. But it’s not the first thing that stands out for Everything Theatre’s first visit to Ram…
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Lipstick: A Fairy Tale of Iran, Omnibus Theatre – Review
Drag theatre is an increasingly broad church and here it is used to serious political effect at Omnibus Theatre’s 96 Festival of queer theatre, which celebrates the iconic 1996 Pride party on nearby Clapham Common. The drag, for fans, delivers.…
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There Is A Field, Theatre503 – Review
Mark (Sam Frenchum) is from a typical East End family, working class to the core. Except Mark has gone off the rails with too many drugs, and has been kicked out of the family home. After the death of his…