REVIEW: Elephant ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📍Bush Theatre
In this personal and rather intimate piece, there’s something for everyone: the music lover, the fan of narrative engaging empires (British or otherwise), and the intimate theatre lover. I first came across the performer headlining this solo show in their turn at the new edition of Oklahoma! at the Young Vic, and was aware of […]
REVIEW: The Choir of Man ⭐️⭐️⭐️📍Arts Theatre
Entering the Arts Theatre auditorium (the last time I did so, it was to see Six and Bonnie and Clyde), I was amazed to see an actual on-stage bar serving pints to the audience members in the Stalls. Yes, real pints! Managed by stage managers – who kept the number so the stage isn’t overfilled […]
REVIEW: Passing ⭐️⭐️ 📍Park Theatre, Park90
As the Park Theatre enters its second decade (it opened in 2013), I was quite intrigued by the concept of the play Passing written by Dan Sareen and which is also directed by Imy Wyatt Comer. The poster depicts Amy-Leigh Hickman (whose performance in the recent revival of East Is East at the National Theatre […]
REVIEW: Blue Mist ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📍Royal Court Theatre (Jerwood Theatre Upstairs)
“Shisha lounges are an essential part of the Muslim experience bruv, like the Fillet o Fish” To begin with, I want to commend the theatre programmer at the Royal Court for transforming the set of Blue Mist into a “Shisha Lounge”. For those who are not familiar with them, it’s a common hang-out place for […]
REVIEW: Unbelievable ⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📍Criterion Theatre
EVERYONE YOU MEET IS PERFORMING A KIND OF MAGIC TRICK – PRESENTING THE PARTS OF THEMSELVES THEY WANT YOU TO SEE, THEIR ‘EFFECT’ AND HIDING THE PARTS THEY DON’T, THEIR ‘METHOD’ Listen, let’s get this straight from the offset: I am not the biggest of magic fans. If anything, I merely recall David Blaine’s antics […]
REVIEW: Jock Night ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📍Seven Dials Playhouse
** Jock Night is a world premier of a stage show which has now been broken into two-acts from Hive North, written by Adam Zane ** Ben (David Paisley) is a forty-something fan of Victoria Wood who is on a path to eventually find love in a world of chemsex, jockstraps and poppers. As the […]
REVIEW: Portia Coughlan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📍 Almeida Theatre
It’s been a hot moment since I was last at the Almeida theatre to see some Shakespeare (Romeo and Juliet), so when I was asked to review a play by an Irish playwright Marina Carr – I leapt at the chance. I know that the writing from some of my favourite Irish writers, namely Martin […]
REVIEW: Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 📍 Wilton’s Music Hall
This show was a pleasant surprise me: for one, I do not align myself with the ghastly politics of Margaret nor her party (in the past, and as is the present case). Oh how wrong I was to imagine to be an eighty-minute set looking at the “great work” she did to befall the Mother […]
REVIEW: Mahabharata ⭐️⭐️ 📍Barbican Theatre
As someone with no prior knowledge to the revered Sanskrit text, this production was one that was highly anticipated by the people sat next to me as they’d confessed to having “seen Peter Brooks’ version” over a decade ago and were compelled to return to see it based on the story; this time, this iteration […]
REVIEW: Brassic FM ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️📍Gate Theatre
work. class. work + class. working class. “this is a message for ange we’re all thinking of you know we love you know what you’re doing for the culture know what you’re doing for me” Brassic FM is nothing without the listeners. While Amir chronicles the precarious nature of living as an undocumented worker in […]