Everyone has that teacher that they never forget. Sometimes it’s because they were brilliant, sometimes it’s because they bent the rules, sometimes it’s because they were so bloody-minded that they remain so unforgettable. For the selected few pupils of Edinburgh’s Marcia Blaine School for Girls who … [Read more...]
London Theatre Reviews
If you are planning to visit London to see a classic musical or play in one of the West End theatres, or a production in one of the many Off West End or Fringe venues, then maybe our review section can be of help? Our featured reviews are here...
Review of Lady Eats Apple at The Barbican Theatre | Lift 2018
A story as familiar as storytelling itself, it is hard to imagine there is anything left to be said about, or perhaps more importantly, anything left to be learnt from Eve’s infamous act of rebellion and humanity’s fall from grace. Set across three seemingly disparate but also connected acts, Lady … [Read more...]
Trinity Laban Musical Theatre presents: Betty Blue Eyes | Reviews
The last time I saw a production of Betty Blue Eyes, it was 2011, the year of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge. Now in 2018, in the same year of the wedding of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex, comes a student production from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music & Dance, of a show … [Read more...]
Section 2 – A New play by Peter Imms at The Bunker | Review
In the same week that the Society of London Theatre and UK Theatre launched ‘Theatre Helpline’, a telephone and email service supporting people working in the theatre industry with issues relating to their health and wellbeing, seeing Section 2 could not have been timelier. The setting is a … [Read more...]
Review of It’s Only Life at The Union Theatre
Go and see a musical featuring songs by composer/lyricist John Bucchino they said. Now, I know my musical theatre but have to admit I had no idea who this John Bucchino chap was. After a quick bit of research, well I put his name into Wikipedia, I had some more information on Bucchino and his work. … [Read more...]
Alexandra Waierstall – And here we meet | Lilian Baylis Studio
Are we doomed? That is the question which choreographer Alexandra Waierstall asks us to consider in her exquisitely beautiful, profoundly moving and deeply disturbing work And here we meet at the Lilian Bayliss studio. In a tour de force she creates a work of astonishing power and beauty in 40 … [Read more...]
Quentin Crisp: Naked Hope Written and performed by Mark Farrelly
Since Quentin Crisp’s life was nothing if not a one-man show, he lends himself to that theatrical format almost as generously in death as he did in life. The bold irony of that existence was that while seeming to embody a thoroughly stagey and flamboyant version of himself, the life was that of a … [Read more...]