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: Boxed In, Old Red Lion Theatre
A moving examination of overwhelming grief and resulting mental health issues that deliberately obfuscates the line between inner monologue and external intervention.
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Review: Dick, Drayton Arms Theatre
An emotionally raw exploration of desire and its consequences, with outstanding acting.
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Review: Ghosts, Lyric Hammersmith
It’s tricky taking on the classics at the best of times. All that weight of expectation, with many in the audience remembering previous productions and making comparisons to supposedly definitive renditions… Does an adaptation lessen or heighten such vulnerabilities? This…
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Review: The Inseparables, Finborough Theatre
A well-intentioned adaptation of Simone de Beauvoir’s last, lost novella that needs to go bigger to have adequate emotional impact.
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Review: Whole, Camden’s People Theatre
Whole is a gift to a loved one who ran out of time to accomplish a dream and that gift is thoughtful and intelligent and beautifully wrapped in authenticity and originality.
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Review: Tending, Riverside studios
A raw, urgent love letter to the NHS nurses holding the nation together.
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Review: Dead Mom Play, Union Theatre
A play which explores the five stages of grief in a fun, quick-witted and entirely too relatable way.
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Review: Heisenberg, Arcola
Loneliness lingers in this queer reimagining of Simon Stephens’ tale of fractured connection.
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Review: What Fresh Hell is It?, The Libra
A witty, compassionate and sensitive insight into the complex world of Dorothy Parker - an author, lyricist, poet, and activist who achieved many accolades, and a founding member of the Algonquin Round Table writers’ group – a woman of substance.
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Review: Speed, Bush Theatre
Despite a lot of wit and a strong cast, Speed runs off the road.