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Reviews from Peter Yates

Peter has a long involvement in the theatrical world as playwright, producer, director and designer. His theatre company Random Cactus has taken many shows to the Edinburgh Fringe, the London Fringe and elsewhere and he has been associated with the Wireless Theatre Company since its inception where his short play Lie Detector can be heard: Wireless Theatre Company. Peter writes reviews of productions in London together with attending press launches.

Siobhan Dillon – One Voice – ‘truly tugs at the heartstrings’

April 21, 2020 Last updated: April 21, 2020 11:59 am By Peter Yates

Siobhan Dillon

I know we are in strange, cruel, enlightening pandemic times but it is not very often that a grown man can sit in front of his laptop in the morning and have tears streaming down his face. But this album - One Voice - did that to me. And in doing so I discovered a voice, a new voice, with the clarity of pearls gently dropping into the cool, crystal-clear water of mountain streams combined with an endearing passion that truly tugs at the heartstrings. Specifically what did it for me was the … [Read more...]

The Dock Brief by John Mortimer at the Cockpit Theatre London

March 24, 2020 Last updated: March 24, 2020 10:58 am By Peter Yates

The Dock Brief by John Mortimer

John Mortimer’s two-hander is a classic of the genre - the genre being plays set within a legal framework: Twelve Angry Men by Reginald Rose (1964) comes to mind as does Terrance Rattigan’s The Winslow Boy (1946), as well as David Hare’s Murmuring Judges (1991). Mortimer was a lawyer by trade but after the success of The Dock Brief - originally a radio play - he went on to pen the popular Rumpole of the Bailey, commissioned by the BBC as a Play For Today before being developed as a series for … [Read more...]

The Spine by Nathan Powell at Camden People’s Theatre | Review

February 28, 2020 Last updated: February 28, 2020 1:04 pm By Peter Yates

The Spine - Photographer Ryan Tomes

Stumbling around in the dark I found myself at the Stage Door of Camden People’s Theatre and was astonished to find a large skip filled with empty energy drink bottles. Someone must be high on ener-drenaline I mused. As the lights came up on the show I found out who. This vibrant, kinetic, pulsating and uber-energetic show keeps us on the edge of our seats throughout and I defy anyone to watch it and not leave the theatre re-vitalised and, well, energised. There’s some depressing stuff to … [Read more...]

Life and Death of a Journalist at the Vault Festival – Cage | Review

February 27, 2020 Last updated: February 28, 2020 10:04 pm By Peter Yates

Life and Death of a Journalist - Photographer Ming Cheng

Ostensibly, this is a play about a journalist fighting for freedom of expression with a sub-plot about the journalist’s tortured and disintegrating relationship. Or: it’s a play about a journalist’s tortured and disintegrating relationship with a sub-plot about a journalist fighting for freedom of expression. I can’t decide between the two. Each of the two plot-lines takes up the same amount of script but the attempt to fit them together displays all the clunkiness off iron shoes on a … [Read more...]

Review – Raphael Wakefield: Wengerball at The Vaults Festival

February 21, 2020 Last updated: February 21, 2020 12:47 pm By Peter Yates

Raphael Wakefield

Cards on the table: I have to declare a non-interest. I’m a Spurs supporter. This is a solo show about Arsenal. The Wenger Years to be precise. So if you support Arsenal you’ll adore this show. Though if you love football, and don’t follow Arsenal, then I believe you’ll still appreciate this show. Even if you love football but support Spurs and are not too keen on their North London rivals then I’m pretty convinced you will find plenty to like and admire in this show. And if you’ve just … [Read more...]

The Incident Room at New Diorama Theatre | Review

February 14, 2020 Last updated: February 14, 2020 3:37 pm By Peter Yates

The Incident Room - Credit The Other Richard

Filing cabinets. Lots and lots of filing cabinets. Wall-to-wall, floor-to-ceiling filing cabinets, in fact. By my reckoning 230ish of the grey, metallic, functional-but-boring instruments of administrative torture that form the backdrop to this play about the Yorkshire Ripper. It’s an inspired design by Patrick Connellan because it informs us, from the start, that the piece is about the minutiae of detection, the importance of data collection and the tragedy that unfurls when you can’t see the … [Read more...]

Frances Barber: Billie Trix in MUSIK by Pet Shop Boys & Jonathan Harvey

February 12, 2020 Last updated: July 12, 2021 5:11 pm By Peter Yates

Frances Barber: Billie Trix in MUSIK

There are good plays; there are inspirational dramas; and there are out-of-body experiences; Musik, the one-person show performed with explosive panache by Frances Barber, falls, very definitely, into the third of these categories. If you were looking for a definition of how a mind gets blown then it’s right here, right now in this extraordinary show at The Leicester Square Theatre. Careful though: Barber, as Billie Trix, the rampant, night-club-trippy dominatrix, it's going to grab you by … [Read more...]

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