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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.

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...]

For the Sake of Argument at the Bridewell Theatre | Review

January 30, 2020 Last updated: January 31, 2020 3:10 pm By Peter Yates

Matt Weyland, Harry Farmer, Paula Cassina, Ashleigh Cole, For the Sake of Argument, courtesy Charles Flint.

I have a reasonably wide knowledge of the hostelries that abound in London, including, more specifically, around Euston. I’ve experienced bare-board floors, squishy ‘Spoons carpets, retro-lino and even an attempt to return to the spit ’n’ sawdust of the ‘fifties. (There’s actually a pub called the “Spit and Sawdust” in Bermondsey). But I’ve never come across a pub the floor of which is covered in sand. And I’m not talking surface sprinkling here: no, in this show the floor of the Cock Tavern in … [Read more...]

Matt Forde: Brexit, Pursued By A Bear at Soho Theatre | Review

January 21, 2020 Last updated: January 21, 2020 12:19 pm By Peter Yates

Matt Forde

Andrew Neil is having a bad time: not only was his flagship late-night politics show shelved, he was also denied the chance to interview, live, prospective PM Boris Johnson. And to cap it all he lost the ability to be impersonated by stand-up comic and politics satirist par excellence, Matt Forde. Yep. It’s true. Amongst all of Forde’s wonderful re-creations of our excruciating political elite Neil deserted him in his hour of need, coming out all Gerry Adams with a touch of Glenys Kinnock. To … [Read more...]

Hamlet: Rotten States at The Hope Theatre | Review

January 17, 2020 Last updated: January 17, 2020 1:30 pm By Peter Yates

HAMLET ROTTEN STORIES by 6Foot Stories Photo by Matthew Koltenborn.

Fardels. Yeah, fardels. If you know your soliloquisation of tragic procrastinators you’ll know we’re talking Hamlet here. That is, of course, if you hadn’t already spotted it in the title. Hamlet, arguably the greatest play ever written, has lent itself, rather too often in my view, to various bastardisations in search of what we might term “further meaning” or “extra elucidation” perhaps. Some are good re-workings: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, Dogg’s Hamlet are offerings from Tom … [Read more...]

Superstar by Nicola Wren at The Little at Southwark Playhouse

November 29, 2019 Last updated: November 29, 2019 4:12 pm By Peter Yates

Nicola Wren

Superstar: hot play or cold gig? Actually a hot gig about Coldplay. Well a bit about Coldplay, anyway, but much more about what it’s like to be the runt in a family of five siblings, what it’s like to be a panto bunny (aged 8), what it’s like to be Anne Frank and in love with Shippy, and what it’s like to be a bespectacled Toad who spots through her squint from the stage a woman in a cap that is apparently Gwyneth Paltrow though she could be the Princess of China for all you know. Shippy, … [Read more...]

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