Cinderella (Barking)
It isn’t very often I get to see shows close to home and so I love that my first panto of 2012 was on my own doorstep in Barking. The Broadway Barking Theatre isn’t much to look at from the outside but when you eventually make it into the theatre (emerging from the carnage that […]
Cabaret
Wilma’s Rating [rating=5] The West End wouldn’t be complete with a Kander and Ebb show and since the sad closure of Chicago I have been desperately missing the razzle dazzle in town. Cabaret has all the winning ingredients needed in a show and is the kind of thing (like Chicago) where I could have stayed […]
American Idiot
Wilma’s rating [rating=2] Maybe I was the idiot at last nights performance of American Idiot but I didn’t understand a thing that was supposed to be happening during this show. Not a good start for a show really! Wikipedia tells me the story is about “three disaffected young men, Johnny, Will, and Tunny. Johnny and […]
Vagina Monologues
Rating [rating=4] Reviewed by Ruthie Luff 29 NOVEMBER 2012 Richmond Theatre, London Cast: Clare Buckfield Vicky Entwistle Hayley Tamaddon Having seen the Vagina Monologues more times than I can remember, and having produced it before as well, I went to the Richmond Theatre with a very clear idea of what I was in for. […]
Goodnight Mister Tom
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] Goodnight Mister Tom is a wonderful story that has carried through the ages, from a children’s book (by Michelle Magorian), to the 1998 film and now done justice by this wonderful show that is brought to life perfectly for the stage. It tells the war time story of William Beech, played tonight […]
People Like Us/Happy Never After
Rating [rating=5] Reviewed by Ruthie Luff You never know what you’re going to get with a double bill, but People Like Us and Happy Never After are a pair of new, fantastic plays! People Like Us, written by Jake Brunger, opens with a young couple preparing for dinner guests in a room filled with […]
Spamalot
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] Spamalot is one of those shows that just has to be in the West End. When you want something fun, lighthearted and silly, this is the perfect show to go to. Thankfully, after two years on tour and a brief 7 week run at the Harold Pinter Theatre, Spamalot is back for […]
The Upstairs Room
Rating [rating=3] Reviewed by Ruthie Luff The King’s Head Theatre in Islington opens it’s doors to the premiere of David K. O’Hara’s one-act play, The Upstairs Room. The audience huddle in a tiny intimate space, where an array of buzzing lightbulbs hang over head from open wires, exposing a dingy, mold infested attic. […]
Sweet Smell of Success
Wilma’s Rating [rating=4] When you first walk into the Arcola Theatre, you wonder what you have let yourself in for. It is a building site (having just reopened after having extensive work done to it), with cables still hanging from the ceiling! The auditorium itself is like an old gutted pub. Hollow apart from the […]
Little Voice
Wilma’s Rating [rating=3] Playing this week at the New Wimbledon Theatre is The Rise and Fall of Little Voice. Based on the 1998 film starring Jane Horrocks. It tells the story of a quiet young girl who keeps her self to herself and rarely ever leaves the sanctuary of her bedroom, playing the records her […]