Reading Time: 4 minutesA talented cast, a good premise, but requiring a deeper dive into the recovery from addiction Before you ask, no, this show is not about Amy Winehouse, or what happens to Premier League footballers when they twist…
Reading Time: 4 minutesWonderfully silly, a must-see parody musical, littered with odes to the show and the era Stranger Things – for the very small population that have no idea – is a Netflix production that has been nominated for…
Reading Time: 4 minutesThe lively and welcoming Bush Theatre, the venue again for the returning Red Pitch. Before we were asked to take our seats, we were invited to have some drinks and hear a few speeches. Lynette Linton (Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre), Daniel Bailey (Director of ‘Red Pitch and Associate Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre), Mimi Findlay (Executive Director of the Bush Theatre), and Lenny Henny, got us all excited for the upcoming show and the upcoming season at the Bush and celebrated all forms of British theatre, Black theatre, and Asian theatre.
Reading Time: 4 minutesI would be remiss to not first cast some light on the incredibly unique journey Death Note has ridden to becoming a musical. In 2003, Death Note, a Japanese manga (comic/graphic novel) series written and illustrated by Tsugumi Obata and Takeshi Obata, respectively, was first published. In 2006, the anime (animation) adaptation first aired in Japan to widespread acclaim. Its popularity was so huge that two live action Japanese films shortly followed. A musical adaptation then premiered in Tokyo in 2015, before touring Japan and opening of a South Korean production. Jumping forward to 2023 we skip over several seasons of the musical in Japan and South Korea, a Netflix live action film and a concert version opening in Russia, and we land in the present day – Death Note: The Musical In Concert opening at the London Palladium.
Reading Time: 3 minutesWe do not follow a protagonist from start to finish of an adventure, nor a courtroom trial that tos-and-fros before reaching a verdict, nor any other more common structure you may see at other West End theatres. In The Jungle we follow a group of men, each from different walks of life with different outlooks but who all share the same two things; they all go to their local, and at their local they are all in the same choir – the Choir of Man.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFriday night at the cosy Camden’s Peoples Theatre was the perfect time and location for this absurd chip shop odyssey. The stage was an incredibly bare bar: a small white table with bell atop stage right; an even smaller white table stage left; and a large white freezer centre upstage.
Reading Time: 3 minutesPhil Wang is a 33-year-old, British-Malaysian comedian known for his stand-up and comedy sketch group ‘Daphne’.
Reading Time: 4 minutesPrison chatter, the sound of officers communicating via their radios and cell doors closing rings through the speakers. Troup and Church seem bored or fed-up, but begrudgingly scan the audience as if we are the prisoners that they just need to watch over for a few more minutes before finally getting to clock-out after a long shift.
Reading Time: 3 minutesFor anyone who might be interested in an unconventional musical, an interesting spectacle, and has strong retinas, a trip to Wyndham’s Theatre’s ‘Oklahoma!’ might just be for you.
Reading Time: 3 minutesSix is the retelling of Tudor history or ‘her-story’ as a lively and sublimely audacious pop concert.