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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Review: NINA, Battersea Arts Centre
A fierce exploration of acting and misogyny featuring fabulous performances, theatrical chaos and dark comedy that’s perhaps overly constrained by conventional storytelling.
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Review: Halfway Home, Etcetera Theatre
Halfway Home is a strikingly simple drama that lays bare the tragedy of alcohol abuse and its aftermath. What it lacks in theatrical precision and poise, it makes up for in heart.
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Review: Toy Soldier, Union Theatre
Toy Soldier is a powerful, well designed drama that uses multi-media to explore the human cost of the Falklands War, something which endures long after the last physical battle is over.
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Review: De Profundis, Coronet Theatre
The pain of Oscar Wilde's extraordinary prison letter made palpable in a transfixing solo performance that beautifully blends intellectual and corporeal understanding.
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Review: Her and the Voice in Her Head, Theatre Peckham
Lorraine Adeyefa’s one woman show hits the jackpot and kicks off the Young, Gifted and Black season with an impressive bang.
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Review: Flock, Jack Studio Theatre
A crafted, deceptively complex study of young people’s experience of the care system – intelligent, emotionally articulate, and ultimately devastatingly tragic.
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Review: Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, @sohoplace
West End’s newest theatre packs a punch with its latest production. With a star studded cast, it has big expectations to live up to and that it certainly does.
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Review: The Musical Medea, Upstairs at the Gatehouse
Some great foot-tapping music and singing, but shame about the words!
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Review: Noises Off, The Questors Theatre
Probably the wrong play for a modern theatre audience, the show has moments of real brilliance but struggles to make the best of a flat script.
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Review: Animal Farm as Witnessed by Moses the Raven, Barons Court Theatre
A one-man show that manages to bring Animal Farm to life