Category: UK

Posted in Not-London Penelope Skinner Theatre UK

Review: Eigengrau, Otherplace at the Basement: The Pit – Brighton Fringe

“I think you need to believe in something” The metropolitan loneliness epitomised by Penelope Skinner’s Eigengrau seems…

Posted in Arthur Miller Not-London RSC Theatre UK

Review: Death of a Salesman, Royal Shakespeare Theatre

“Certain men just don’t get started ‘til later in life” To criticise an RSC production of being…

Posted in Leo Tolstoy Not-London Royal Exchange Theatre UK

Review: Anna Karenina, Royal Exchange

“Love is just a better way to hurt each other” Ellen McDougall’s debut production for the Royal…

Posted in Not-London Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Liverpool Everyman

“We will make amends ere long” After The Faction’s Romeo and Juliet that stretched out beyond the…

Posted in Curve Theatre Musicals Not-London Theatre UK

Review: Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ The Musical, Curve

  Sue Townsend’s The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13 ¾ The Musical at the Curve…

Posted in LGBTQ+ Not-London Theatre UK VAULT Festival

Preview: Elegy at the VAULT Festival and Brighton’s Pink Fringe

  “Some stories are more powerful than others” I’m not normally one for doing preview pieces but…

Posted in Not-London Theatre Tom Morton-Smith UK

Review: Oppenheimer, Swan Theatre

“We could make a star on the surface of the Earth” Michael Billington notes in his Guardian…

Posted in Not-London Shakespeare Theatre UK

Review: King Lear, Holy Trinity Church, Guildford

“Hooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooowl” In something of a coup, Guildford Shakespeare Company’s leading man for their production of King Lear is none…

Posted in Musicals Not-London Royal Exchange Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2015 UK

Review: Little Shop of Horrors, Royal Exchange

“That thing went bang, kaboom. And he’s havin’ some fun now” There are shows I love and…