A brief review of a brief production. It’s easy to see why Number, Please. did well at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2018 and will likely do very well again at Fringe 2019 - it’s the sort of slightly over the top humour that appeals to Fringe audiences, particularly as the Fringe has gradually shifted focus in recent years to comedy. It’s a reasonably tight show, … [Read more...]
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Romeo & Juliet By William Shakespeare at Katspace | Review
I do not consider myself to be particularly mischievous but even I relish a production that rankles purists from the outset. This one keeps certain events in Romeo and Juliet “in fair Verona”, except here, ‘Verona’ is a pier on the south coast (Brighton according to the programme, but frankly there isn’t a reason why it couldn’t be Eastbourne - the distinguishing … [Read more...]
Review of Avenue Q at Aylesbury Waterside Theatre
In 1969 Sesame Street hit public television, it took the world by storm and for many years was the absolute king when anyone talked of puppetry. Jim Henson - one of the main contributors to Sesame Street - branched off and produced The Muppets, who (along with Sesame Street), reigned supreme as puppetry masters of the entertainment world. That was until 2003, when … [Read more...]
Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Oklahoma! | Festival Theatre, Chichester
Put it this way: the last summer musical that transferred from the Chichester Festival Theatre to the West End (Festival 2016’s Half A Sixpence, for those who need a memory jog) also ended with a newly married couple getting into a motorcar and driving off while very nearly all the other characters wave them goodbye. Oklahoma!, unlike that other show, is as American … [Read more...]
Review of How To Save a Life at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre
A show with a title like How To Save A Life could be one of those (very) few immersive productions that I would want to take part in: an interactive journey through various scenarios in which hypothetical life-threatening scenarios could be presented to the audience, and somehow or other, various alternatives regarding how to proceed with regards to saving a life … [Read more...]
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens at Drayton Arms Theatre
Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, is a 60-minute two-hander, based on J.M.Barrie's own prequel to the better-known adventures of Peter and Wendy, and the far more famous Peter Pan. Betwixt-and-Between productions have adapted this little-known story for what they believe is the very first time on stage. It’s evidently a project they have thrown their hearts into and … [Read more...]
Review of The Falcon’s Malteser at The Vaults
Feargus Woods Dunlop’s adaptation of Anthony Horowitz’s best-selling 1986 YA novel, The Falcon’s Malteser, has some highly entertaining staged pieces but, at 80+ minutes long, is guilty of being overly faithful to the novel and not going far enough to establish a theatrical life of its own. Four or five mad-capped chase scenes or slow-motion ultra-noir pastiches … [Read more...]
Review of Hive City Legacy at the Roundhouse
Hive City Legacy returns to the Sackler Space in Chalk Farm with enough energy to power the steam train engine turntable that used to run in the big roundhouse above this basement room. The nine “femmes of colour” fill the small space with song, mime, spoken word, burlesque, poetry, beat-boxing, hip-hop, rap, ropework and twerking - lots and lots of twerking! The … [Read more...]
Review of Improvengers: Pretendgame at the Museum of Comedy
Following their epic success with fantasy show Lord of The Game Of The Ring Of Thrones, Hivemind are back - and this time they’re taking on the high-octane world of Superheroes. The concept remains largely the same; the young cast courageously invite the happy, slightly tipsy audience to suggest a concept, and then, apparently undaunted by some rather unusual … [Read more...]