Reviews
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Review: Transit, Arches Lane Theatre
Using physical theatre, poetry, dance and live music, Transit is a powerful, human response...
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Review: Holy Fool, Park Theatre
A sprawling and unfocused production of Shostakovich’s struggle to find true expression through music while appeasing his communist masters
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Review: Krapp’s Last Tape, The Cockpit
A triumph as an actor suffering with Alzheimer’s turns Beckett’s monologue into a profoundly moving meditation on memory and the ageing process.
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Review: We Dance in Fire, Golden Goose Theatre
A potent and accomplished debut turns up the dial on our existential fears to great effect.
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Review: A Dark Line Upstairs, ZOO Playground
A powerful and touching solo debut by Matilde Vigna.
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Review: Brixton House’s Housemates Festival: SUGA
SUGA is sweet, but too much can leave you needing a filling! An intense exploration of the challenges a young Londoner faces, including hurdles such as finances, housing, friendship and intimacy.
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Review: Twelfth Night, Drayton Arms
A joyous and engaging production that sets this popular Shakespearean comedy to a funky disco beat, combining language from the 1600s with dance moves from the 1970s.
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Review: You Are What You Eat, theSpace on the Mile
A pair of bubbling best friends treat us to a silly crime thriller in 70s London. It's silly, it's corny, but it's brilliant fun.
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Review: Halfway Home, theSpace on the Mile
This play about family ties and the plight of prisoners has some bright moments but struggles to say anything new in an already crowded field.
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Review: You & It, King’s Head Theatre
A musical that tackles love, loss and artificial intelligence, but where the emotional circuitry never quite manages to connect