As a reviewer I prefer to go into a show knowing as little as possible about it. This can have its downsides. A while ago I went to see the Donmar Warehouse’s Henry IV Part 1, featuring an all female cast, with absolutely zero knowledge. So when it became apparent that there was a framing story in which the performers were convicts in a women’s prison putting this show on, at first I genuinely didn’t know if that was part of the performance or true. I was rather disappointed… Read more No Show, at the Soho Theatre →
Ringmaster is a devised production from Network Theatre Company based on La Ronde. A controversial play with provocative sexual themes written by Arthur Schnitzler in 1897 it seems to have resonated with… Read more Ringmaster, Vault Festival →
Review by Anna James It’s a stupid sentence with which to start a review, but: This play is very good. In a nutshell, the plot revolves around the arrival… Read more The Convert, Young Vic →
Seance is a sensory rather than a theatrical performance. In a small audience, you find yourselves being asked to contact the dead, in twenty minutes and in the blackest darkness… Read more Seance, Vault Festival →
Review by Melinda Haunton Lydia Rynne’s monologue, performed with heart and verve by Alice Pitt-Carter in the role of Jess, could be summarised as ‘near-thirtysomething pregnancy scare comedy slash millennial… Read more Hear Me Howl, Vault Festival →
I’ve become someone I hate-someone who judges a production before it has even been produced. I did it with James Graham’s Brexit: An Uncivil War, an interesting drama that was… Read more Bitter Wheat: An inappropriate play at an appropriate time →
Victor Sanchez Rodriguez’s Cuzco makes its English debut with translation by William Gregory. It is a passionate play about a couple She (Dilek Rose) and He (Gareth Kieran Jones) who… Read more Cuzco, Theatre503 →
David William Bryan brings a personal touch to these story about a young Liverpudlian who signs up to fight in the second world war as his critically acclaimed Edinburgh Fringe… Read more In Loyal Company, Vault Festival →
Anima Theatre Company’s Blue Departed is an unashamed look at addiction, death and carrying on. Dante and Beatrice are two addicts. Now Beatrice is dead and Dante is going through… Read more Blue Departed, Vault Festival →
