Love, Laughter, Revenge and Murder. Fancy some of that? If so then pop up to Yorkshire this summer and go to Europe’s first Pop-Up theatre for what promises to be a delicious programme of Shakespeare classics. The Rose Theatre is literally going to pop up in the carpark next to historic Clifford’s … [Read more...]
Harold and Maude is ‘a theatrical masterpiece’ at Charing Cross Theatre
Death: it’s a strange and grisly subject for a play. But in Harold and Maude we have a genial, funny, uplifting and rejuvenating show that warms the cockles of our hearts and sends us on our way to face the world with a spring in our step and just a little extra love in our souls. And that is not … [Read more...]
Review of Devil in the Blue Dress at The Bunker
The Monica Lewinsky story is a classic of modern American Politics. It has all the attributes of the archetypal Greco-Shakespearian tragicomedy - power, lust, lies and retribution laced with quirky characters, farcical situations and idiosyncratic language. Writer Kevin Armento, in his play Devil … [Read more...]
Review of Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm’s Br’er Cotton at Theatre503
#BlackLivesMatter is the driving force behind this play, a theme that is realised through the depiction of three generations of an African-American family, descended from slaves. Matthew is the grandfather, set in his ways, steeped in the perpetuated philosophy of “maybe things could change but they … [Read more...]
Review of The Best Man at the Playhouse Theatre
The Best Man is an intriguing political smear-fest where one politician’s private medical records are set against another’s alleged sexual predilections. The fact that the play is set in the America of 1960 explains why the latter “smear” would have had more traction then than it would in today’s … [Read more...]
Review of Elsa at the Vault Festival
Girl. Guitar. Grounds. Coffee grounds, that is. The girl (with guitar) is Elsa and she works, part-time, as a waitress in a coffee bar. Whilst the work provides her with a living, the perks (sorry about that) provide her with a lifeline: the principle perk being the granting of full and unfettered … [Read more...]
Angels With Dirty Accents at The Cockpit – Review
Purgatory. That’s where the play is set; and that’s where I found myself, sitting, soaked through, in the cavernous, unheated Cockpit Theatre - you could see the actors’ breath: I was, therefore, especially looking to be warmed by the drama, immersed in the “bonkers black comedy” - just as the show … [Read more...]