REVIEW: Death Comes to Pemberley
Reading Time: 3 minutesDeath Comes to Pemberley combines classic characters with murder but misses the mark.
Category ★★½☆☆
REVIEW: 113 at Hope Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Interesting ideas get lost in the sauce’
REVIEW: Ivories
Reading Time: 2 minutesIvories is a play with visible potential - the set design is beautiful, the lighting is suspenseful, and the four actors (two in leading roles, two in supporting roles) are expressive and eager to engage with the material. However, the production had multiple weak moments.
REVIEW: Storehouse at Deptford Storehouse
Reading Time: 3 minutesStunningly ambitious set pieces lead to a dystopian anticlimax in this promenade thriller
REVIEW: WIGGY
Reading Time: 2 minutesThought-provoking conversations on race and extreme paranoia are the highlights of this experimental show. What if a Get Out situation wasn’t real? What if it was all in our heads?WIGGY, by writer and lead actress Chelsea Bondzanga…
REVIEW: Sand
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe story follows Dylan and Heather, a long-term couple trying to hold on to each other as Dylan’s memory and sense of self begin to deteriorate.
REVIEW: I See Me & Meryl Streep
Reading Time: 3 minutesWith skilled impressions and quality singing, Keddie performs an excellent Meryl Streep, but the storyline lacks the power to fully grip an audience. As a self- proclaimed Meryl Streep fanatic, actor and comedian Alexandra Keddie used skilled…
REVIEW: The Argument
Reading Time: 3 minutesA promising premise about reality and performance What starts out with a very promising premise descends into confusing chaos. The core conceit, according to writers Alfie Lanham-Brown and George Abbot, is that through the power of arguing,…
REVIEW: Mary and The Hyenas
Reading Time: 2 minutesMost people’s cultural awareness of feminist philosopher Mary Wollstonecraft is through the lens of her famous daughter, Frankenstein writer Mary Shelley. This production seeks to remedy that and explore the life of the seminal political and cultural provocateur through Maureen Lennon’s script and Esther Richardson’s direction.
REVIEW: Macbeth
Reading Time: 3 minutesLayered with subtext, sharp satire, and thought-provoking questions about Macbeth’s relevance in today’s world. Richard Twyman’s production of Macbeth at the Lyric Theatre in Hammersmith is steeped in a world of subtext, yet this is paired with…