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Back to the Future: The Musical, Adelphi Theatre
Weight has nothing to do with it – yes, it’s the Back to the Future stage musical.
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Rumble, Drayton Arms
Review by Jake Laverde Business and boxing collide in this revival of Yasir Senna’s play by Razor Sharp Productions. Alisha Harper-Gill is on the ropes, fighting for her career when faced with a trumped up disciplinary hearing. But like Mohammed Ali’s historic bout with George Foreman, it’s all part of her plan. Originally put on…
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Not Our Play, Rosemary Branch Theatre
How important is a writer to a play? What is a performance without a writer or director? The company Say It Again, Sorry specialise in such questions. Their approach is to take the basics of theatre and show the audience the back end. Their previous production of Ernest ended with the whole audience on stage…
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Chicago, Churchill Theatre
Theatre, still recovering from economic and talent loss, following Covid-19 is understandably taking a safe approach to productions. The more experimental productions can wait until 2022 because audiences don’t want to take risks with their health and finances and producers need to make up for a big financial hit. The revival of Chicago in a…
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Abigail’s Party, Park Theatre
Review by Jake Laverde The first thing you’ll notice when you enter the auditorium is the incredible set design which brings you right into Beverley and Laurence Moss’s decadent lounge. Here, the audience is free to peruse the period details such as the marble lighter, the record collection and the (unread) complete works of Dickens…
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The Drop, Swamp Motel
Running at around an hour, The Drop is a fast-paced cross between an immersive show and an escape room. You gather in an unassuming office reception to start – looking much like any of the thousands of office receptions in the surrounding part of the city. From there your group are taken to a lift…
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SIX, Vaudeville Theatre
I have written about Toby Marlow and Lucy Moss’ Six before back in 2018 and it is still a show I am immensely fond of, from its original run at the Arts Theatre, a brief flirt with Lyric Theatre, a delayed Broadway run and now in its new permanent West End home of the Vaudeville.…
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Old Bridge, Bush Theatre
A young woman listens to pop music on headphones. The people around her can’t hear it. We, the audience, can – a bit. But it’s a solitary experience; unshared. Something universal is also isolating. Igor Memic’s Papatango New Writing Prize-winning debut play ‘Old Bridge’ opened at the Bush Theatre in a swirl of pink tafatta…
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One Man Poe, The Space/Online
Ahh Autumn, the crisp leaves falling from the tree. The smell of bonfires and fireworks. Asthe nights get shorter, we look to a comforting horror to bring us into the winter months.There is nothing better guaranteed to give you a warm feeling than a good spine chiller.As such, this is a timely capturing of four…
View from the Cheap Seat 