Mark Lloyd

Mark Lloyd

I am the classic example of someone who did lots of theatre as a teenager before thankfully realising as an adult that I wasn't very good at it. Now I am a big supporter of the arts and am eminently judgey, so now I write reviews of the things I have seen for all to see.

REVIEW: End Of The Rainbow

Reading Time: 2 minutesA masterclass in tragedy, comedy, and high-glamour anxiety that proves it is always Monsoon season. End of the Rainbow, starring Jinkx Monsoon, tells the story of Judy Garland coming to London for a 6 week concert run,…

REVIEW: America The Beautiful: Chapter 1

Reading Time: 2 minutesan exclusive collection of savage short plays offering a uniquely skewed view of life and relationships in the modern world.

Neil LaBute’s America The Beautiful: Chapter 1 makes its UK debut at the King’s Head Theatre. Comprising of three thirty-minute plays written over the past decade for the LaBute New Theater Festival in the US, the collection offers a searing, albeit varied, look at the darker side of the human condition.

The first two chapters play at King’s Head Theatre from 9–21 March.

REVIEW: Mrs. President

Reading Time: 2 minutesA portrait that lacks focus and, ultimately, fails to develop. In what feels like either a wild coincidence or a bold bit of counter-programming, London currently finds itself host to two Mary Todd Lincoln plays. While the…