REVIEW: WHERE IS PETER RABBIT? (Theatre Royal Haymarket) ★★★★

On a rainy and grey afternoon I was delighted to take my 5 year old niece Amy to watch this magical interpretation of some of the best loved characters from the world of one of our most celebrated children’s authors, Beatrix Potter-conceived over 100 years ago. As a child I read all 24 of her […]

REVIEW: BAD GIRLS THE MUSICAL (Upstairs at the Gatehouse) ★★

BAD GIRLS the Musical, written by Maureen Chadwick and Ann McManus (writers of the original ITV prison drama) premiered at the West Yorkshire Playhouse in 2006 before a three month run at the Garrick Theatre in London’s West End in 2007. Rachel Hicks, a young new mother, is admitted to G-wing at HMP Larkhall on […]

REVIEW: MAMMA MIA! HERE WE GO AGAIN ★★★★

Ten years on, the juggernaut of commercial success that is Mamma Mia continues to assault our senses with feel good codswallop, schmaltz and cheesy singing for singing’s sake but with an unexpected complexity of emotion that rendered not a dry eye in the house..an exploration of genuine maternal love and familial relationships that many can […]

REVIEW: AS YOU LIKE IT (Open Air Theatre) ★★★★

The first time I saw a professional production of “As You Like It” was as a teenager – the all male Cheek By Jowl production with Adrian Lester as Rosalind and Tom Hollander as Celia no less- it had a great impact on me in the early nineties as an aspiring actress, and this production […]

REVIEW: The Significant Other Festival (The Vaults) ★★

As a concept, this festival celebrating the works of ten different writers under the umbrella of a unanimous theme and location to create one fluid piece of theatre is an interesting one- but unfortunately not entirely successful in it’s actualisation. I applaud new ideas and new approaches to theatre, however, for me the disjointed vignettes […]

REVIEW: SOPHIE, BEN, AND OTHER PROBLEMS (Tabard Theatre) ★★★

This inaugural production by fledgling theatre company The After School Club is to be applauded the new writing by Conor Burke, who co-stars in the piece alongside producer Dylan Morris, fizzes along with cracking wit and awkward comedy based around contemporary young love, that gives way to poignant moments throughout , and an unexpectedly moving […]

REVIEW: TEDDY (The Vaults) ★★★★★

What an invigorating and ultimately moving spectacle ‘Teddy’ is. “Real Rock and Roll is about heartache, misery and pain” and this imagined Bonnie and Clyde of a specific finite snapshot in time, when Teddy boys and girls co-existed with 50’s traditional values, certainly bears out this mantra. ‘Teddy’ is essentially a beautifully written ode to […]

REVIEW: BURY THE HATCHET (Theatre N16) ★★★★

I did not know as I braved the baltic conditions of the new Theatre N16  space that Bury The Hatchet had won the “People’s Choice” award at the recent lauded Vaults Theatre festival – but I am unsurprised. With a truly innovative and pacey form of storytelling, interspersed with a well chosen and beautifully executed fusion […]

REVIEW: ASSASSINS (Pleasance Theatre) ★★★★

Having never seen Assassins and with a penchant for all things ‘murder’ and an appetite for true crime, I rocked up to the Press Night of this production full of anticipation and I wasn’t disappointed. The Pleasance Theatre (once you get used to its out of comfort zone location) is warm and welcoming and the perfect […]

REVIEW: THE STRONGBOX (Vault Festival) ★★★★

I trudged through the snow and freezing wind on Thursday 1st March to watch The Strongbox as a part of the acclaimed Vaults Festival – and I wasn’t disappointed. The play is not for the fainthearted – a bleak study of the symbiotic nature of abusive relationships, all set in one room over a period […]

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