Reviews
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Review: Will You Love Me Tomorrow, Omnibus Theatre
An imaginative but messy show that could do with reining in a few of its wilder instincts.
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Review: All the Worst Parts, Baron’s Court Theatre
A solo show around one woman’s journey with sexual assault that ultimately lacks structure.
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Review: Snow White: The Sacrifice, Sadler’s Wells
Liv Lorent and her eponymous troop dominate the Easter program at Sadler's Wells East, with two retellings of Snow White aimed at different age groups. However, the adult version succumbs to its own poison apple.
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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: Ballet Lorent’s Snow White, Sadler’s Wells
A majestic, spellbinding update of the Grimm classic for the poisonous beauty standards of the social media age
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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: Alex Franklin: Gurl Code, Soho Theatre
Alex Franklin knocks ‘em dead with a Barbapapa of a show; fabulously funny, absurd and intelligent, it creatively reshapes comedy while telling a heart-stoppingly moving trans tale.