Lizzie Boone (played by Selina Helliwell) is in therapy and we are about to find out why. From bullying at primary school to sexual assault in sixth form, it is clear that her experiences as a child have shaped who she is today. Through a mixture of conversations with her therapist, Marie (voiced by Carla Kayani-Lawman), and a series of flashbacks to key moments in her life, we get to know Lizzie, a quirky, and if I’m honest, somewhat irritating, character. Selina Helliwell makes Lizzie seem … [Read more...]
Nick Payne’s Constellations On Demand at the Vaudeville Theatre
With just one free evening to review Constellations, I was immediately faced with the impossible decision of which cast to watch out of a star-studded choice of four. In the end, I settled on Russell Tovey (Roland) and Omari Douglas (Emmanuel in this play, Marianne in other versions) for the simple reason that my friend had seen them live and loved it. I had thought, on starting out, that I may be able to squeeze a second cast in after the first, but as it turned out, watching the play once put … [Read more...]
Skin Tight at The Hope Theatre | Review
What are the moments that make up a lifetime? As Elizabeth and Tom reminisce about their lives together from school to old age we realise the most memorable moments as a couple are in many ways the most mundane - eating an apple, washing your hair, everyday chores on a farm. Skin Tight is a funny yet poignant reflection on years of love (and sometimes hate) and marriage. The play starts and ends with two impressive physical theatre sequences and I especially enjoyed the music that these … [Read more...]
Feathers at The Lion & Unicorn Theatre | Review
From the moment you walk into the theatre, the set has a distinct 1984 (the book, not the year) feel. An invisible government controlling a population through clever slogans who treat any contrary voices as harshly as possible, an external threat forever referenced but never named. Very "Big Brother is Watching You". The development of the story only strengthened these echoes. Luckily, 1984 is one of my favourite books. The play started off somewhat slowly with a brother and sister (Caleb … [Read more...]
Golden Age Theatre Company Presents: Testimony | Review
Each night for a week two different monologues written by Ian Dixon Potter will be performed. I watched Call Back and Trivial Dispute. Call Back is about a man who discovers he has the power to make phone calls to the past, exactly 4 days before the present, so why is nothing changing when he warns of a terrible accident, and why has the weather suddenly got so bad? A whistle-stop tour of theoretical physics later and we have our answer and a new more political plot is hatched. The story was … [Read more...]