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Review by Thomas Froy

The following reviews are written by Thomas Froy for London West End and Off-West End productions. Click here to read the latest London theatre reviews by all reviewers.

TAO Dance Theater at Sadler’s Wells | Review

May 27, 2019 Last updated: May 27, 2019 9:32 pm By Thomas Froy

Tao Dance Theater - 4 & 9 - 9-10 (c) Fan Xi

Tao Dance 4+9 starts with the audience in the dark. And that’s more or less how it finishes, too. If you’re the kind of person who doesn’t have any desire to know what’s going on for about an hour, while a group of four, and then nine (hence the title) dancers mosh and bounce around the stage in matte grey and black outfits. Well, I’ve got good news for you. Tao Ye’s piece makes no pretence of explaining itself, having a sense of narrative or characterisation. Heck, are these even people? … [Read more...]

Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem at the Old Red Lion Theatre

May 10, 2019 Last updated: May 10, 2019 9:32 pm By Thomas Froy

Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem - Photo by Ali Wright

Theatre doesn’t have to be enjoyable. I get that. Bromley Bedlam Bethlehem certainly isn’t a comfortable night at the theatre. I was left wondering exactly what I’d subjected myself to. Was it provocative theatre, or was it just uncomfortable? The premise of Rachel Tookey’s hard-hitting play is the idea that mental health issues, specifically suicide, ‘run in the family’ somehow. Or at least, if someone in the family has committed suicide, a second death is 4-6 times more likely. Maybe I … [Read more...]

Michele Sinisi in Richard III at Draper Hall | Review

May 6, 2019 Last updated: May 8, 2019 5:22 pm By Thomas Froy

Michele Sinisi – Riccardo III

Is it winter now? Now, is it winter? How soon and wintery is now? Such rambling, semi-incomprehensible, apparently ironic reiteration and reinterpretation laid the tone of the entire 45 minutes of Michele Sinisi’s performance of Richard III. The programme tells us that Sinisi has made the “brave” decision to perform only the first monologue of the entire play. For 45 minutes. Over and over again. For a less tolerant audience, this might beg the question ‘what danger is Sinisi bravely facing … [Read more...]

Avalanche: A Love Story at the Barbican Theatre | Review

May 3, 2019 Last updated: May 8, 2019 5:27 pm By Thomas Froy

Avalanche: A Love Story Maxine Peake, photo credit: ©The Other Richard

Maxine Peake’s one-woman show is something of a plodding, steady snow drift, rather than an avalanche. She tells the story of Julia Leigh’s memoir (the play is adapted by Anna Louise-Starks from a book of the same name) tracking the turbulent and traumatic experience of trying for pregnancy at the latter end of fertility. She begins by hooking up with a partner from years ago. He wants children, and suddenly, so does she. It’s not clear what provokes her decision, and though the play develops … [Read more...]

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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake at New Wimbledon Theatre | Review

April 17, 2019 Last updated: August 30, 2019 12:50 pm By Thomas Froy

Matthew Bourne's SWAN LAKE. Matthew Ball 'The Swan' and Liam Mower 'The Prince'. Photo by Johan Persson.

Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake, now nearly 25 years old, is as sharp, sexy and silly as ever. Though audiences might be somewhat less shocked than when this show, now a Christmas treat for families, opened, it doesn’t seem to have lost any of its edge, or indeed, darkness. Despite its Christmas associations and deeply romantic narrative, Swan Lake is a gloomy tale of its forbidden love. Bourne’s productions are united in their subtle but ever so funny satires of high society. ‘Edward … [Read more...]

Going Through by Estelle Savasta at the Bush Theatre | Review

April 10, 2019 Last updated: May 8, 2019 6:19 pm By Thomas Froy

Going Through Production Photos - Nadia Nadarajah & Charmaine Wombwell - Photos by Ali Wright

Going Through passes along smoothly and of silently. But don’t mistake silence for softness. Told by Nadia Nadarajah and Charmaine Wombwell, as Nour and Youmna respectively, in a combination of French Sign Language, speech, writing and sound, Going Through is a play about child trafficking, family, motherhood and childhood. On the face of it, a pretty gruelling 75 minutes, but the beauty, happiness and hope with which it is told make this a beautiful experience. We aren’t told when it’s set. … [Read more...]

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill at the Lyttelton Theatre | Review

April 4, 2019 Last updated: May 8, 2019 6:25 pm By Thomas Froy

Katherine Kingsley - Marlene in Top Girls by Caryl Churchill. Photo Johan Persson

Caryl Churchill’s 1982 play Top Girls isn’t really for the slow. It’s stop-start, jumpy, fast and slow. Highly comic, instantly tragic. This is a script which shows the full capacity of a brilliant writer without holding anything back. The first scene opens on a ‘gals’ catch up in an expensive looking restaurant in London, 1981. The twist is that they are all historic or fictional characters from the 9th century to the 21st. From Pope Joan (Amanda Lawrence) to Dull Gret (Ashley McGuire) to … [Read more...]

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