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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.

Farewell Leicester Square The Talking Horse Venue at The Place, Bedford

July 2, 2021 Last updated: July 2, 2021 1:21 pm By Peter Yates

Farewell Leicester Square

If you want someone to tease out a story, if you want someone to winkle out the good bits, and the sad bits, the emotional bits and - crucially - the funny bits then Neil Gore is your go-to guy. And Townsend Productions, led by the indomitable Louise Townsend, would surely be your vehicle of choice to chauffeur the narrative around, perfectly conveying it to an audience. We would normally find Gore out front and centre stage getting chummy with his audience and delighting in the wink and the … [Read more...]

Romeo and Juliet at Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre | Review

June 24, 2021 Last updated: June 24, 2021 1:18 pm By Peter Yates

Joel MacCormack and Isabel Adomakoh Young as Romeo and Juliet (2) at Regent's Park Open Air Theatre. Photo Jane Hobson.

You know what they say: Location. Location. Location. After months and months of internal darkness what better place to re-discover the light than at the Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre: it’s as if the world has just been created and then - let there be theatre! - in all its wonder, in all its glory. Coming to this beautiful alfresco space is like entering - to borrow a phrase from Richard II - “another Eden, demi-paradise”. The location is perfect, and this show does it more than … [Read more...]

Gyrus and The Forest – Naked Frank Theatre on Location | Review

May 16, 2021 Last updated: May 16, 2021 4:21 pm By Peter Yates

Gyrus and The Forest - Naked Frank Theatre on Location

Lockdown: theatres dark; audiences shunned; creativity on hold. And: "No-one’s seen anyone in ages. Not just you.” Enter - or should I say exit - Stage Door the highly innovative and presciently bold Naked Frank Theatre who never shy away from the big issues - bullying, homophobia and here, in the whimsically allegorical Gyrus & The Forest - mental health. Yes, if you’d ventured down to the woods you sure would have had a big surprise stumbling across this troupe of itinerant actors … [Read more...]

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...]

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