Challenging and rewarding with a cast absolutely on top of their game.
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Review: Little Red Riding Hood, Battersea Arts Centre
A rather unsophisticated panto.
Read More »Review: Sleeping Beauty and the Beast, Battersea Arts Centre
brilliant, bonkers
Read More »Review: Lockdown Town, London Bridge
There are three ways in which theatre companies can respond to the current crisis. They can furlough as many staff as they’re allowed and squint down the tunnel hoping desperately for a glint of light at the end. They can reopen with a socially distanced audience, paring back productions to match the reduced income. Or they can produce something genuinely innovative: this is the approach taken by One Night Records, whose immersive promenade performance sees the audience admitted in groups ...
Read More »I Do! I Do!, Upstairs at The Gatehouse – Review
Worth checking out for charming performances in a great venue and lovely pub.
Read More »Cry Havoc, Park Theatre – Review
“What is your relationship to this man?” It’s a question that recurs through Tom Coash’s play, and it’s one that neatly keeps the focus on the two central characters. These are Nicholas (Marc Antolin), a British academic working in Egypt, and his native lover Mohammed (James El-Sharawy). His name having been “on a list” since some political cartoons in his student days drew him to the attention of the authorities, the play begins with Mohammed, newly released from police custody, ...
Read More »Pete ‘n’ Keely, Tristan Bates Theatre – Review
A strong acting and vocal duo do their very best to lift up this camp and kitsch musical, to no avail.
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