Pros: A total treat for eyes and ears. Cons: Given the show’s steep price tag and focus on the music of Fantasia, I wish the sound had worked better. Those of us who grew up with a VHS tape of Disney’s Fantasia in the family film collection are likely to have vague memories of psychedelic colours, fairies dancing to swirling music and the harrowing tale of the sorcerer’s apprentice, which tells the sorry story of young Mickey Mouse daring to ...
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Pity, Royal Court – Review
Pros: British clichés and drama tropes are nailed, aided by a vast number of fun props and different music styles, from rap to community brass band tunes. The cast is a deliberate cross-section of modern Britain, with some stand-out performances. Cons: At times it feels like the weirdness factor is cranked up just for a reaction, with little relevance to the plot. A seemingly relentless war section labours its writer’s and director’s point. It must be a nightmare to clear ...
Read More »Half me, Half You @ Tabard Theatre, Review
It may say Trump and America on the label, but this superbly written play could as easily be examining the world being created by Brexit, and for that reason, it is well worth the time of anyone who cares about what is happening all around us.
Read More »Shackleton’s Stowaway, Cervantes Theatre – Review
A moving and informative experience that gave me a new found respect for the amazing explorers that have travelled the dangerous seas.
Read More »Circa’s Peepshow, Underbelly Festival – Review
Big league acrobatics in a small-top tent at Southbank’s Underbelly Festival.
Read More »Locked Up, Tristan Bates Theatre – Review
Flawed, but thoroughly entertaining.
Read More »Earthquakes in London, Bridewell Theatre – Review
Sedos somehow manage to pull off the impossible in making this play as unique and unmissable as the original National Theatre production.
Read More »It Happened In Key West, Charing Cross Theatre – Review
A bizarre adaptation of a true story about stalking, illness, grave robbing, necrophilia and amateur mummification, done in the style of a light romantic musical. Utterly strange.
Read More »The One, Soho Theatre – review
A powerful, witty and at times shocking dissection of a relationship.
Read More »For King and Country, Southwark Playhouse – Review
Pros: The cast can sustain tension and passion; it is genuinely moving to watch this less-discussed side of WWI history. Cons: A stiflingly hot venue makes several audience members lose concentration; due to the thrust stage, some lines are hard to hear when actors aren’t facing you. At the end of this month, it will be 101 years since the Battle of Passchendaele began. It lasted until November 1917. Unlike the current British heatwave, Passchendaele started with heavy rainfall, turning ...
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