Author: mag9l

Posted in Cast Recordings Music Theatre

Album Review: Privates on Parade (1977)

  “Remember the yearning we felt inside” This 1977 recording of Denis King’s music is not going…

Posted in Musicals Theatre Theatre Royal Stratford East

Review: Oh What A Lovely War, Theatre Royal Stratford East

“There must be no squeamishness over losses” In the centenary year of the beginning of the First…

Posted in Not-London Royal Exchange Simon Stephens Theatre UK

Review: Blindsided, Royal Exchange

“He puts his hand in your knickers and promises the world” Lord this was grim. Hard-going, unlikeable…

Posted in Tennessee Williams Theatre

Review: The Hotel Plays, Langham Hotel

“The world is a circle, and everything comes back to where it started” A soldier on leave,…

Posted in John Webster LGBTQ+ Theatre

Review: Cover Her Face, Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club

“In what a shadow or deep pit of darkness doth womanish and fearful mankind live” Gemma Arterton…

Posted in Arcola Theatre Theatre

Review: In Skagway, Arcola Theatre

“I want some nice tasty salty-in-the-mouth cheese. CHEEEEEEEESE!!!” One of the reasons I like going to the…

Posted in Digital Film Laura Wade Short Films

Short Film Review #33

Responding to the work of Belarus Free Theatre, Connection is part of the continuing short film work…

Posted in Radio Plays Theatre

Radio Review: Just Dance / Sargasso

”They called a horse after a dancer?” Just a quickie for these two Afternoon Dramas as it…

Posted in Abi Morgan Royal Court Theatre

Review: The Mistress Contract, Royal Court

“Intimacy to you is one thing, to me another”  Regular sex without all the encumbrances of marriage,…