Theatre Review: Ballets Russes – A Stage Kindly
A Stage Kindly's most recent production Ballets Russes tells the story of the famous russian ballet company and the trials and tribulations they faced during the years preceding World War One. The...
View ArticleTheatre Review: When We Are Married – Garrick Theatre ****
In recent years, the West End has, of necessity, conserved pennies. What joy then, that Christmas has come a little early at the Garrick with a recession-busting cast – fourteen, no less, assembled for...
View ArticleTheatre Review: The Charming Man – Theatre503 ***
Theatre 503’s The Charming Man boasts some snappy dialogue, wise cracking humour and a very charming central performance, but in terms of political satire it feels about as serious as Boris Johnson....
View ArticleReview: Reasons To Be Cheerful ***
Defiant teenagers pogo around the stage, exploding into impassioned impressions each time an Ian Dury song is even referenced, let alone played in full. But for all this wilful wildness, Reasons To Be...
View ArticleReview: Blasted – Lyric Hammersmith ****
Sarah Kane’s work is usually the province of textual study, her words confined to student reading lists, so it is a treat to see Blasted performed on a British stage. Brutal and uncompromising, treat...
View ArticleReview: The Two Character Play – Jermyn Street ****
Jermyn Street Theatre, in programming Tennesse Williams’ The Two Character Play, incontrovertibly proves that fringe theatre is where the most daring, dangerous theatre finds a home. This is no...
View ArticleReview: A Christmas Carol – Theatre Delicatessen **
England is in the throws of one of the snowiest Decembers in its tender 21st Century with roof tops and hedges covered in a pure white frost. And in the middle of this twee picturesque landscape that...
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