Pros: A hilarious, touching, emotional ride through contemporary social and sexual mores Cons: None A bare, carpeted stage with a circular bed dead centre. As the lights go up, a couple are having energetic, enthusiastic sex beneath a pink satin eiderdown. All we can see of him are his lower legs, his underpants dangling from an ankle; all we can see of her as she sits astride him is the giant mouse costume that covers her from head to foot. ...
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Bayadère: The Ninth Life, Sadler’s Wells – Review
An intellectually curious show stumbles over its own cleverness, but is mesmerising nonetheless.
Read More »The Secret Keeper, The Ovalhouse – Review
The Secret Keeper is worth your while, it is just such a shame that the dark and gothic isn’t given centre stage enough to make it something brilliant.
Read More »Hair The Musical, The Vaults – Review
A joyous, colourful and exuberant 60s ‘happening’. You will be humming the music to yourself for some time afterwards.
Read More »Kings, New Diorama Theatre – Review
A truly captivating and powerful new work that explores the plight of the capital’s homeless.
Read More »Stardust, Southwark Playhouse – Review
A heartfelt and uncompromising confrontation of the multi-headed beast that is the global cocaine trade, which avoids patronisation and remains entertaining.
Read More »All The Little Lights, Arcola Theatre – Review
A moving presentation of an expertly written and directed piece of new theatre on a very challenging topic.
Read More »The Busy World is Hushed, Finborough Theatre – Review
A fantastic, perpetually pertinent play that wrangles with faith, agnosticism and disbelief in the space of a city apartment.
Read More »Hansel and Gretel, V&A Museum of Childhood – Review
A beautifully-staged version of a classic fairytale that deserves to win new admirers.
Read More »Tosca, King’s Head Theatre – Review
Pros: There’s something very magical about seeing an opera in such a small space and immersing yourself in the music. Cons: Some theatrical tricks employed here might be better left for the big stages. This new reworking of Giacomo Puccini’s opera Tosca, by Becca Marriott and King’s Head Theatre artistic director Adam Spreadbury-Maher, is set in Paris during World War Two. Painter Marius, played on press night by Martin Lindau, has agreed to hide a Jewish man who has escaped ...
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