Plays

Kunene and the King is a powerful play, dealing with the continuing shockwaves of the apartheid era in South Africa. Set in Johannesburg, it is 25 years since the end of apartheid when the first [ read more ]

Anton Chekhov wrote the play Uncle Vanya in 1895 but this glorious new staging and adaption at the Harold Pinter Theatre by Conor McPherson gives it a timeless feel while still rooted in the decaying [ read more ]

Disney have never told a gay love story, so Rich Watkins has created one himself. Happily Ever Poofter tells the story of a gay prince trapped in a kingdom faraway, where he is unable to [ read more ]

The Welkin is a new play by Lucy Kirkwood and directed by James Macdonald. The world premiere was held at the National Theatre this week and it will be broadcast in cinemas on 21 May with [ read more ]

The Canary and the Crow, playing at the Arcola Theatre in London, is a play about Daniel Ward‘s experiences as a young schoolboy, earning a scholarship to an exclusive grammar school where he was one of [ read more ]

Tony Tortora‘s play Cops captures a long forgotten time with carefully drawn contrasting characters, a background of mobsters and corruption and dated attitudes that have evolved over the last sixty years. It moves at a [ read more ]

Greetings Readers! This week I made my way on a dark and dismal night to Woking and the New Victoria Theatre to review Peter Pan Goes Wrong. We hadn’t even settled into our seats before [ read more ]