REVIEW: My Life with Kenneth Williams
Reading Time: 3 minutesKenneth Williams, the famed raconteur with a notoriously prickly personality, would have celebrated his centenary this year.
Category ★★★½☆
REVIEW: Desert Thirsts and Jerusalem Winds
Reading Time: 2 minutesDesert Thirsts and Jerusalem Winds is based on the real-life story of Muhammad Asad, born Leopold Weiss, an Austrian Jewish journalist who travelled across the Arab world in the 1920s, who interrogated the early Zionist movement, converted to Islam, and later became one of the most influential Muslim thinkers of the twentieth century.
REVIEW: The Wizard Wae The Big Baws
Reading Time: 3 minutes"Big baws and bigger laughs, this panto thrives in its dirty humour"
REVIEW: The Olive Boy
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn The Olive Boy, writer and performer Ollie Maddigan plays his 15-year-old self, grappling with his mother’s death, adjusting to a new school, and living with a father he barely knows.
REVIEW: OUTHAUS
Reading Time: 2 minutesfunny, and zany, with a lot of heart OUTHAUS is charming and genuinely funny comedy about protecting green spaces. Switching between a live cabaret show with audience participation, and the backstage drama filled with political conflict and…
REVIEW: God, The Devil and Me
Reading Time: 2 minutesThis dark comedy about a psychotic break lacks polish, but delivers laughter and pathos As the audience enter the Lio & Unicorn Theatre, they’re invited to “sit wherever you like” by The Devil (Campbell Maddox), who is…
REVIEW: WiFi-Sexual
Reading Time: 2 minutesBizarre, funny satire about the increasing levels of attachment between humans and AI WiFi-Sexual is an outrageous story of love and friendship. We follow Paul (co-writer Tom Hodgson), a lonely man who has had no success with…
REVIEW: Fireside Tales
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s not a bad idea to be invited to a “fireside” in Wembley on a freezing, rainy Sunday morning. And although there’s no real fire in Punchdrunk Enrichment Wembley, imagination and community make up for it.
REVIEW: Beyond Monet: The Immersive Experience
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn hour of otherworldliness that allows you to step into art and let it follow you back into your daily life. Having been to the Van Gogh Alive exhibition before, I was familiar with the concept of…
REVIEW: Royal Academy of Music ‘s Carmen at Susie Sainsbury Theatre
Reading Time: 2 minutesChristopher White nailed the night with an exquisite performance of the orchestra It was a little unusual to watch Carmen at the Royal Academy of Music, where most of my operatic and musical experiences have tended toward the avant-garde,…