Reading Time: 2 minutesExploring what is permissible in theatre, the audience laughs, learns, and are challenged, sometimes all in the same sentence Segio Blanco’s latest production about desire, death, and what comes next lives up to the Arcola’s reputation for…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn interesting social commentary in search of a story Last year, a number of West End plays revolved around groups of people sitting down for a chat. When done right, as with Infinite Life at the National…
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis charming and campy musical invokes the infectious playfulness of a Saturday morning cartoon Bronco Billy (Tarinn Callender) and his traveling Wild West show have 30 days to prepare for a Hollywood audition; Antoinette Lily (Emily Benjamin)…
Reading Time: 6 minutesJonathan Oldfield is a performer, writer and director. He’s a Pleasance Associate Artist 2024 and finalist in the BBC Carleton Hobbs Award, and directed the award-winning Lorna Rose Treen: Skin Pigeon (5 stars Telegraph, Evening Standard, Observer, Independent). His…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn interesting setting and relatable characters, regrettably hamstrung by over-busy production Blood On Your Hands is a new production from Patch Plays, exploring the impact of protesting vegan activists from the perspective of the meat industry’s “forgotten…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn unflinching portrayal of teenagers struggling to cope, and a relationship forged in struggle Ben (William Robinson) and Daize (Rachelle Diedericks) are teenagers dragged into an adult world they are ill-prepared for: Ben a lackey to a big-time…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA sharp, tightly-paced, and very human comedy well worth your time It’s Christmas Day for Tracy, and “an hour to turkey o’clock”, slaving over the oven as her family and friends play parlour games in an adjoining…
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhat Would Julie Do? is billed as “self-help with showtunes”, and what this framing provides is an excuse for five brilliant singers to go out on stage and have a ball.