“Nothing rhymes with ‘Clyde & Bonnie’.” Everyone’s favourite criminal gang returns, as Bonnie & Clyde moves home to the Garrick Theatre for a limited engagement, following on from its run at the Arts Theatre last year. Many of that original cast have returned for some more hell-raising – including stars Frances Mayli McCann & Jordan […]
Read More Bonnie & ClydeWhat do you do if you can’t sleep? In pre-smartphone days, you had to make do with counting imaginary sheep, but now you have a whole host of apps designed to help you get over your insomnia. But what if your voiceover artist ex just so happens to be the narrator? In the latest play […]
Read More Mind FullLondon’s “Most Wanted” musical is back for a new run – this time, Bonnie & Clyde are holding up the Garrick Theatre for a limited 11-week season. I was recently fortunate enough to be invited along to the rehearsal room to see how things were coming along (unsurprisingly it all sounded fantastic), as well as have […]
Read More Why should you see Bonnie & Clyde?From neurodiverse production company ASYLUM, comes SURFACING: a new play that combines theatre and technology to present the reality of mental health crises, but in a different light. It follows therapist Luc, as an appointment with potential new “service user” Owen doesn’t go according to plan; overwhelmed by feelings of guilt at letting him down, she […]
Read More SURFACINGDI John Rebus has retired, but his mind is never far from the job – even when he’s been invited as a plus one to a swanky dinner party. Rebus: A Game Called Malice takes the detective off the streets of Edinburgh and into the realms of Agatha Christie’s famous sleuths; this new play (currently […]
Read More Rebus: A Game Called MaliceNo, despite its title, Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons is not some kind of stage adaptation of that Ewan McGregor-narrated Expedia ad. It is, in fact, the story of a relationship through the lens of language – with a dash of social commentary on the side. Sam Steiner’s two-hander premièred in 2015 at Warwick Arts […]
Read More Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons LemonsWhat do you get if you remove the older generation from Hamlet? Lazarus Theatre’s new 90-minute production at Southwark Playhouse. The cast (dressed in identical jumpers & trackie bottoms) assemble in a circle and take orders from a disembodied voice (Micha Colombo), before introducing themselves and their character – to each other rather than the […]
Read More Hamlet (Lazarus Theatre)“Vivien fucking Leigh!” An opening statement that certainly makes its feelings clear, in Keith Merrill’s Irrelevant, now on at the Seven Dials Playhouse and starring stage & screen stalwart Debbie Chazen. It’s a 75-minute piece that charts the downfall of actor-turned-agent Millie Grable; she recounts her life story for a camera she’s set up in her […]
Read More IrrelevantInitially I was going to write separate, full reviews for both of these – however, as I’ve left it a little while since watching Henry V and both of them are closing fairly soon I took the executive decision to clump them together here instead. Other than the fact that they are both Shakespeare plays (and […]
Read More Misc. Mini-Reviews: Henry V / As You Like It2022 followed in 2021’s wake, in that motivation continued to be lacking. Bizarrely, I had spurts of ambition and often planned a lot of things (& even started stuff), but then I just couldn’t follow it all through – #MindTheBand and #MindTheBard are two cases in point. I got some things written but it was like […]
Read More Out of 2022 – Into 2023
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