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Home – Frozen Lights Oval House Theatre
I went into Frozen Light’s immersive show for people with Profound and Multiple Learning Disabilities (PMLD), ‘Home’, determined to do two things: not use the word “inspiring”, and assess the production as a piece of theatre in its own right. The hour-long interactive show follows two women stranded in a city-destroying dust storm after missing…
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The Lottery of Love, Orange Tree Theatre
The best play I’ve seen so far this year is the Orange Tree’s revival of 80s all-female comedy-drama Low Level Panic, so I had tentative high hopes for Lottery of Love, an adaptation of Marivaux’ little-performed 18th century comedy Le Jeu de l’amour et du hasard. These hopes were more than fulfilled. The plot is…
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Don Juan in Soho, Wyndham’s Theatre
Brilliant acting and energy can’t quite cover the wasted potential of a thin script. The legend of Don Juan dates back four hundred years. A byword for licentiousness and excess, re-imagining this iconic figure for the 21st century is ambitious task. In his first non-Shakespeare stage role since 2004’s the Pillowman, David Tennant is more…
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Naomi Westerman On Sex in Theatre
It’s a warm evening in September and I am watching one of my closest friends give his wife (also a good friend) a good seeing-to over a chair. It is their first wedding anniversary. The enthusiastic audience hoots and cheers. I smile and go back to reading the ‘dogging’ section of a popular UK swingers forum.…
View from the Cheap Seat 