Category: Top plays of 2012

Posted in Musicals Not-London Sheffield Theatres Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012 UK

Review: My Fair Lady, Crucible

“Men are so decent, such regular chaps” ‘Tis a truth that ought to be universally acknowledged that…

Posted in Curve Theatre Jerry Herman Musicals Not-London Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012 UK

Review: Hello, Dolly!, Curve

“I feel the room swayin’ for the band’s playin’ one of my old favourite songs from way…

Posted in Menier Chocolate Factory Musicals Stephen Sondheim Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012

Review: Merrily We Roll Along, Menier Chocolate Factory

“We go way back, never forward” Sondheim’s Merrily We Roll Along famously flopped on Broadway when it…

Posted in Jermyn Street Theatre LGBTQ+ Musicals Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012

Review: Boy Meets Boy, Jermyn Street Theatre

“You’ve been free, now it’s time to get married” Just a stone’s throw away from Piccadilly Circus,…

Posted in Bush Theatre DC Moore Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012

Review: Straight, Bush Theatre

“We just have to position ourselves right” Though Nick Payne is the name on most people’s lips…

Posted in Not-London Propeller Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012 UK Yvonne Arnaud Theatre

Review: Twelfth Night, Propeller at Yvonne Arnaud

“What kind of woman is’t?” In what is now a bit of a tradition (although I was…

Posted in Headlong Lucy Prebble National Theatre Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012

Review: The Effect, National Theatre

“Call it what you want, just don’t let it define you” Though it has arguably had a…

Posted in Musicals Southwark Playhouse Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2012

Review: Victor/Victoria, Southwark Playhouse

“A woman pretending to be a man pretending to be a woman? That’s preposterous.” It is sad…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Theatre Theatre review Theatre503 Top plays of 2012

Review: Elegy, Theatre503

‘Some stories are more powerful than others.’  In Douglas Rintoul’s devised monologue Elegy, the above is a…