It’s Pride Month and that means that London is full of building flying rainbow flags and the theatre scene is gayer than ever with a plethora of LGBT+ themed shows hitting the stages of the capital. Some are just OK, some are good and a small number are absolutely awesome. I was lucky enough to get to experience the latter type of show as Alexis Gregory’s Riot Act … [Read more...]
Review of Fat Rascal Theatre’s Vulvarine at the King’s Head Theatre
I’m not really much of a comic book fan. Having said that, I do know many of the characters that inhabit the Marvel and DC worlds. In fact, I could probably put together an alphabet of superheroes from Captain America, through to Professor X. But, how many on that list would be female? Probably not a lot. There is definitely a higher ratio of male to female … [Read more...]
Review of Afterglow at Southwark Playhouse
Being honest, an open relationship wouldn’t work for me. However, I have friends who have the ability to keep sex and their relationship separate and really enjoy both. Whilst I agree that is fine in theory, for me, that separation would not be that easy and emotions always become involved somehow. In many respects, this is the issue that is at the heart of S. Asher … [Read more...]
Interview with Scott Le Crass – Director of the play ‘Country Music’
It's been a great few days for me. Not only did I get to visit the Omnibus Theatre to review Simon Stephens’ excellent one-act play Country Music but I also got a chance to have a chat with the show’s Offie and Broadway World Nominated director, Scott Le Crass. I started by asking Scott to tell me a little bit about himself. SLC: I started out as an actor, trained … [Read more...]
Country Music by Simon Stephens at the Omnibus Theatre | Review
One of the distinctive features of a short play is that the writer has to introduce their characters fast and the audience have to make their mind up about them at once. On the whole, this works. A short play doesn’t have the time for huge character development so you are probably going to feel the same about the characters at the end as you did at the start. But this … [Read more...]
Elegies for Angels, Punks and Raging Queens at the Union Theatre
To Southwark’s Union Theatre for a new production of a very unusual show with one of the most intriguing titles I’ve seen for quite a while, Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens. This is not a play, nor is it a conventional musical, instead Elegies for Angels, Punks, and Raging Queens is a song cycle with music by Janet Hood and lyrics and additional text … [Read more...]
Awkward Conversations With Animals I’ve F*cked | Review
Ever seen a couple that you know and wondered why they are together? What it is about the other that is attractive? Human attraction to each other is something that is easy to define semantically - the action or power of evoking interest in or liking for someone or something - but very difficult to explain emotionally. However, when the human in question is attracted … [Read more...]
H.M.S. Pinafore at the King’s Head Theatre | Review
The second paragraph of the United States Declaration of Independence starts as follows: “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness”. Of course, this is rubbish. Men - or more importantly people - are … [Read more...]
Better Than Sex: The Story of Mae West | Review
I’m terrible at flirting. It’s a fact of life and something I’ve had to accept over the course of many failed attempts to catch someone’s eye and get them to want me the way I want them. However, some people can flirt with words or even a glance. They can take the most innocent of sentences and load them full of innuendo and meaning. One such person was Hollywood icon … [Read more...]