Lucy, the protagonist of Katherine Thomas’ one-act comedy of modern manners (also played by Katherine Thomas), extols the delights of Gogglebox viewed in familiar comfort with an old friend. Unfortunately, the story-telling and comic delivery of Never Trust a Man Bun pale compared to Channel 4’s now famous low-budget clip-show. As a performer-playwright making her … [Read more...]

Playing perfectly off the musty, arched wasteland-playground space of The VAULT Festival’s The Pit, ANNA X immediately transports its audience into the world of ambition and delusion that Anna (Rosie Sheehy) and Ariel (Joshua James) occupy in contemporary New York City’s art/investment/tech scene. As perceptive of our era as Tom Wolfe’s The Bonfire of the Vanities was … [Read more...]

Richard Foreman’s 1974 avant-garde theatre work Pain(t), debuting in its European premiere at the New Wimbledon Theatre Studio as part of Patrick Kennedy’s ‘Foreman at Fifty’ series, tickles the senses but tries the patience of all but the most committed student of performance art or theatre history. Forman is much lauded as a theatre pioneer and a recipient of the … [Read more...]

Martin Askew’s first full-length play’s debut at Theatre 503 is a strong and affecting start thanks to energetic and charismatic performances by its two male leads, Sam Frenchum, as Mark/Abdullah, and Archie Backhouse, as Saleh, but reveals Askew as a not yet fully-formed dramatist. With a rich premise and tuneful dialogue for his male characters, Askew, … [Read more...]