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Othello: A Frantic Assembly production, co-produced with Curve

January 25, 2023 Last updated: January 25, 2023 1:22 pm By Louis Mazzini Leave a Comment

Frantic Assembly's Othello. Photo Tristram Kenton.

Like The Merchant of Venice, with its profound antisemitism, and the misogynistic Taming of the Shrew, Othello is one of Shakespeare’s most challenging plays for a contemporary audience. Racism is commonplace among the characters and there are lines that leave a deep sense of discomfort. Add to this, the perils of misinformation and kneejerk over-reaction to triggering and it is clear that Shakespeare’s play, more than 400 years old, is not only vitally relevant to our times but also, more than … [Read more...]

Have I None by Edward Bond at the Golden Goose Theatre

January 25, 2023 Last updated: January 25, 2023 11:54 am By Chris Omaweng Leave a Comment

Have I None - Photograph by Francesco Codardo.

If the situation in Have I None is really going to be what the future is like, I don’t want it. Sara (Abigail Stone) is cooped up at home, and the world appears to have gone back into lockdown. But unlike the lockdowns of 2020 and 2021, there doesn’t seem to be anything in the way of masses of online content (no, I’m not talking about blue movies), the powers that be in 2077 having managed, one way or another, to abolish entertainment. Almost everything in the world has changed, and the housing … [Read more...]

The Best Pints at The Hope Theatre, London

January 24, 2023 Last updated: January 24, 2023 9:27 pm By Loretta Monaco Leave a Comment

The Best Pints at The Hope Theatre, London

Male bonding contains seeds of sacrifice and understanding to rival any Christian religion's tenets of divine hope and compassion. And in a play about three Irish males, it's difficult not to think of the influence of Catholic and Protestant faiths on the national psyche. Putting the canon of dogma aside, it's a curious phenomenon, this tacit bonding that ensures men will continue to die for one another, either in a street brawl or on a battlefield in some distant country - one that needs … [Read more...]

The Shawshank Redemption UK Tour

January 24, 2023 Last updated: January 24, 2023 12:23 pm By John Groves Leave a Comment

The Cast of Shawshank Redemption - Shawshank Redemption - UK Tour - Photo credit Jack Merriman.

I hugely enjoyed The Shawshank Redemption. This 2009 adaptation by Owen O’Neill and Dave Johns is based not on the 1994 Columbia Movie but on Stephen King’s original 1982 novella Rita Hayworth and Shawshank Redemption. Some of the secondary characters are rather two-dimensional, but only during the ‘disappearing scene’ in Act Two does one miss what Hollywood did for the story, as the play allows one to use the imagination much more, especially, as in the novella, the plot is, from time to time, … [Read more...]

The Elephant Song at Park Theatre

January 24, 2023 Last updated: January 24, 2023 12:11 am By Chris Omaweng Leave a Comment

The Elephant Song - credit Giacomo Giannelli

This play is, I must admit, intriguing stuff. Michael Aleen (Gwithian Evans) is a patient in a secure psychiatric hospital - and that is the correct term for this facility, as opposed to ‘madhouse’ or ‘asylum’: he’s dressed in everyday clothes and not in a straitjacket, and the consultation room being used by Dr Greenberg (Jon Osbaldeston) has no signs of using physical restraints on people. That’s not the only conventional thing about this production, which is set in the said consultation room, … [Read more...]

We Didn’t Come to Hell for the Croissants – Riverside Studios

January 22, 2023 Last updated: January 22, 2023 9:00 pm By Mary Beer Leave a Comment

Jemma Kahn in Croissants - credit Dean Hutton.

Some one-person shows feel like full-fledged plays with various characters and moments enacted by a single actor; whereas other single-performer productions come across more like stand-up or story hour. Jemma Kahn’s We Didn’t Come to Hell For The Croissants is somewhere between the two. Using Japanese kamishibai (‘paper theatre’), Khan walks us through seven tales, each written by a different author, in which she plays distinct characters in relation to the story-board illustrations she presents … [Read more...]

Morveren at Barons Court Theatre

January 22, 2023 Last updated: January 22, 2023 7:40 pm By Chris Omaweng Leave a Comment

Morveren at Barons Court Theatre

According to a friend who holidayed in Cornwall, “everything” in Cornwall is Cornish - that is to say, there are far more products that have some sort of Cornish label on them than those that don’t. Cornish tea, Cornish beer, Cornish chocolate, Cornish ketchup, and of course, Cornish pasty. Like most places, one has to be savvy and selective when it comes to choosing where to buy from, to avoid overpaying for goods that could be purchased for cheaper elsewhere, off the beaten tourist trails. … [Read more...]

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The Trial of Josie K at the Unicorn Theatre

The day after her 12th birthday and Josie K is innocently finishing off some leftover chocolate cake before school when her world is changed by the … [Read More...]

BUFF: Scott Le Crass and Ben Fensome at Vault Festival

Think back. Has anyone ever said to you that looks don’t matter, its personality that counts’ Anyone that answered ‘No’ to that skip to the next … [Read More...]

The Kindness of Strangers at Canal Cafe Theatre

A Streetcar Named Desire might just happen to be on the minds of regular theatregoers in London at the time of writing, on account of the Almeida … [Read More...]

Titus Andronicus at Shakespeare’s Globe

Titus Andronicus is not usually a comedy, it is usually a bloody, villainous and vengeful tale, but tonight it is a comedy and a rather amusing one at … [Read More...]

I Found My Horn – at the White Bear Theatre

This show is not without clichés - there are three of note in this production. Firstly, the French horn of the show’s title is personified, speaking … [Read More...]

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