Category: Theatre review

Posted in Gate Theatre Theatre Theatre review

Re-review: Grounded, Gate Theatre

“You can’t hide from the eye in the sky, my children” Grounded ranked in my top five…

Posted in Musicals Richmond Theatre Theatre Theatre review

Review: La Strada, Richmond Theatre

“Ma che faccia buffa che hai! Ma sei sicura di essere una donna? Sembri un carciofo” Most…

Posted in National Theatre Theatre Theatre review

Review: Ugly Lies The Bone, National Theatre

“It took three surgeries to give me back my eyelid” There’s a moment to catch the breath…

Posted in Almeida Theatre Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review Top plays of 2017

Review: Hamlet, Almeida Theatre

“There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so”  The enduring image of Robert…

Posted in Hampstead Theatre Theatre Theatre review

Review: Scarlett, Hampstead Downstairs

“Don’t you want to come home?” Colette Kane’s I Know How I Feel About Eve played at…

Posted in Greenwich Theatre Musicals Theatre Theatre review

Review: Lizzie, Greenwich Theatre

“In the house of Borden, there’s a lock on every door” I’d be fibbing if I tried…

Posted in Theatre Theatre review

Review: Chigger Foot Boys, Tara Arts

“We were chosen because we think like Englishmen” At a moment in British history when the political…

Posted in Shakespeare Theatre Theatre review Young Vic

Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Young Vic

“On the dank and dirty ground…” Joe Hill-Gibbins’ idiosyncratic 2015 take on Measure for Measure filled the Young Vic…

Posted in Line of Duty Not-London Nottingham Playhouse Theatre Theatre review UK

Review: Touched, Nottingham Playhouse

“The world’s changing. It’s not going to go back to the way it was” There’s something admirable…