Reviews
Reviewing is at the heart of what we do. Here you’ll find all the reviews that our wonderful team have written. If you want to find something more specific, why not pick a genre of show instead from the menu.
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Killymuck / Box Clever Double bill, The Bunker – Review
Social inequality is the theme that binds Killymuck and Box Clever together, a double bill of one woman shows at The Bunker. But there is so much else that links these shows. Both have powerful performances from their sole actor,…
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Wolfie, Theatre503 – Review
Wolfie is a play that is surely destined for a longer life than its few weeks at Theatre503
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The Idiot, Print Room at the Coronet – Review
Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Idiot revolves around Prince Myshkin (Saburo Teshigawara), a young man who returns to Russia, having spent four years in a Swiss clinic to treat his epilepsy. Soon, his good spirit and innocence clash with the dirt and…
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Mary’s Babies, Jermyn Street Theatre – Review
Mary’s Babies is inspired by true events. From the 1940s through to the early 60s, Mary Barton and Bertold Wiesner ran a London-based private fertility clinic. Medically ground breaking at the time, they assisted in the conception and birth of…
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King Lear, Jack Studio Theatre – Review
A stunning cast and pitch-perfect delivery that’s full of clever ideas. This is an exemplar of Shakespearean theatre.
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The Cabinet of Madame Fanny du Thé, Pleasance Theatre – Review
As you enter the small 60-seater basement space of the Pleasance Theatre you see a cast of five: three musicians playing Eastern European folk music on a cello, a guitar and an accordion, with two young men unaccountably wearing dresses,…
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Macbeth, Jacksons Lane – Review
Sitting in a busy Jackson’s Lane auditorium five minutes in to Proteus Theatre’s Macbeth I was smiling, totally convinced by the setting and excited about what was to come. Presumably thanks to the involvement of movement consultant, George Mann, the…
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She’s A Good Boy, Battersea Arts Centre – Review
Homegrown Festival: Occupy He. She. Him. Her. They. Such little words but with so much meaning. But as Elise Heaven tells us, gender is a social construct. There are people who don’t identify as he or she, otherwise known as…
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High Rise Estate Of Mind, Battersea Arts Centre -Review
Homegrown Festival: Occupy There is an incredible buzz in the building tonight for the grand opening of Battersea Arts Centre’s Homegrown Festival: Occupy, an almost month-long takeover of this lovely old building, by under represented voices. There is nothing quite…
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Liza Pulman Sings Streisand, Lyric Theatre, Shaftsbury Avenue – Review
Any show suffixed with the words ‘Sings Streisand’ is always likely to fall between two stools. Is it going to be a singer performing her songs, or a tribute act trying to sound like her? Either way I sensed the…