REVIEW: The Bodyguard: The Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn entertaining, but fatal blow to the musical theatre scene.
Category ★★☆☆☆
REVIEW: The Murmuration of Starlings
Reading Time: 2 minutesWhatever its sci-fi thriller marketing might suggest, at its heart The Murmuration of Starlings is a gentle exploration of memory loss, with The Predator representing dementia’s creeping influence.
REVIEW: The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and directed by LeCoq and RADA trained Tommaso Giacomin, The Uncontainable Nausea of Alec Baldwin is labelled an ‘absurdist, existential examination… marinating in the violence, complicity and paradox of modern life’.
REVIEW: 1.17am, or until the words run out
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten by Zoe Hunter Gordon and directed by Sarah Stacey, 1.17am or until the words run out is an intimate depiction of grief and friendship that eventually packs a punch.
REVIEW: Absence of Youth at Golden Goose Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn interesting premise – with sadly, an absence of anything new to say Absence of Youth is a short 45-minute play, centring on five characters who have been thrown together in the wake of a zombie apocalypse,…
REVIEW: Ghost Grandma
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnd therein lies the main issue with Ghost Grandma. Marketed as a comedy, it struggles to maintain any consistent comedic impact. Despite the cast’s evident commitment, the script and direction leave many jokes falling flat, and the actors’ often overstated delivery of punchlines makes the tonal shifts that come later in the play all the more jarring and uneven.
REVIEW: BIG Gospel Choir at Christmas
Reading Time: 2 minutesBIG Gospel Choir at Christmas promises to be heart-warming, with stunning vocals.
REVIEW: Precipice
Reading Time: 3 minutesA tower in Greenwich overlooking the Thames sits at the centre of Timelapse Company’s debut musical Precipice.
REVIEW: Shiraz
Reading Time: 2 minutesStaging a dance tribute to this controversial festival, as Armin Hokmi has done, is in itself a bold gesture deserving of praise.
REVIEW: Get Down Tonight
Reading Time: 2 minutesSunshine, sweat and sound. When Harry Wayne Casey, a record shop staff in Hialeah with an obsession for rhythm, he didn't know Miami would become the centre of disco and dance music because of him.