In a time when young women are still shot in the head for pursuing the right to an education, the conflicts explored in Jessica Swale’s first play, Blue Stockings, could not be more urgent. John Dove directs a witty and rousing production at Shakespeare’s Globe. Read on… Continue reading
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A Beautiful Dream: Go to Sleep, Goddamnit! at Camden People’s Theatre
The Krumple’s inaugural offering in London is sweet, touching and very funny. Here’s hoping it won’t be the last. Go to Sleep, Goddamnit! is their first show and it roars onto the stage without speaking a single word. At the Camden People’s Theatre. Read on… Continue reading
Top of the Class: The Other School at St. James Theatre
Thoughtful, boisterous and poignant, The Other School is an enjoyable collaboration between National Youth Music Theatre, Dougal Irvine and Dominic Marsh at the St. James Theatre. Read on… Continue reading
Sizzling: Bryan Batt’s Batt on a Hot Tin Roof at Crazy Coqs
Have you ever wanted to be propelled back to an era of long white gloves and cigarette holders? Coiffed hairdos, dinner jackets, highballs poured from silver cocktail shakers? Plush banquettes with little round tables that have candles on them? Then, my friend, the Crazy Coqs is for you. Bryan Batt’s New Orleans-inspired show Batt on a Hot Tin … Continue reading
Clean, Sharp Comic Work: Immaculate at the White Bear Theatre
Thundermaker’s Immaculate is a hilarious and clever look at the problem of approaching the supernatural in modern-day life. Is there still room for elevated notions of the soul, divinity, and the existential problem of free will in a world of flat-pack furniture and irritating mobile phone ringtones? Or will it turn out these questions are inescapable no … Continue reading
The Reviewing, in Review: 10 Reviews for One Stop Arts
I am really enjoying this reviewing racket–it combines many of my favourite things: theatre, writing, and travelling around London finding brilliant new spaces I never knew existed. I’ve now done ten for One Stop Arts and in celebration I’m sharing with you my top five Essential Reviewer Kit Items. (Why five and not ten? I’m efficient. I like to travel … Continue reading
Lights up on Dickie Beau: Blackouts at Soho Theatre
At the Soho Theatre, Dickie Beau evokes beautiful and dangerous pictures of two of our most famous screen idols, Marilyn Monroe and Judy Garland. This production asks us to revisit our memories of these larger-than-life figures and tear back the curtain – or slap on the greasepaint. Five stars from me for this cabaret on … Continue reading
The Heart-Stealing The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart at the London Welsh Centre
My first five-star review for One Stop Arts! If someone were to design a piece of theatre expressly for me, it could not have been more to my taste than The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart. Strong in all production areas, David Greig’s writing supports creative and energetic performances from Melody Grove, Paul McCole, David … Continue reading
For One Stop Arts: Where there’s life, there’s hope: what happens to the hope at the end of the evening at the Almeida Festival
In which two middle-aged men take a knowing glance at the changing nature of their friendship, the thing that is theatre, and the myriad shades of meaning that can be ascribed to the word “mate”. Tim Crouch and Andy Smith provide a thoughtful opening to the Almeida Festival. With a sensibility as minimalist as its … Continue reading
One Stop Arts review: Fitzrovia Radio Hour at the Horse Hospital
At last, at last, I got to review the sublimely humorous Fitzrovia Radio Hour for a real, honest-to-goodness publication! Here’s the teaser: Watching the Fitzrovia Radio ensemble pad around on slippered feet at the Horse Hospital creating sound-pictures would make anyone want to be a foley artist. The dulcet sultry tones of Natalie Ball display … Continue reading
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