Reading Time: 2 minutesA striking and unsettling production, Black Hole Sign features standout performances and a raw exploration of human fragility under hospital bureaucracy. Uma Nada-Rajah’s Black Hole Sign plunges the audience into the relentless chaos of a hospital ward—crumbling inside and…
Reading Time: 3 minutesGasda’s AI play satirises the elite, but does little to challenge them I went into Monday night’s performance of Doomers with a somewhat limited understanding of AI, hoping that Matthew Gasda’s new play would shed some light…
Reading Time: 2 minutesAs a long-time fan of Rick Riordan’s books, I went into this musical not knowing much beforehand apart from the story. I was sceptical, thinking it may have been an unnecessary or unfaithful adaptation, but I was pleasantly surprised.
Reading Time: 2 minutesSome nights feel like a time machine, and Faulty Towers: The Dining Experience leans all the way into that retro ride.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMatthew Mckew’s stand-up hour is presented from a unique perspective. Following a brain-injury, he has experienced life and work through a different lens with a Functioning Neurological Disorder, and using comedy to help rebuild his cognitive skills.
Reading Time: 2 minutesOver the top on one hand is a story about WW1, the brutality soldiers faced in grim impossibly large and slow battlefields resembling hell. On the other hand it’s a really really really funny and camp self-insert fan faction story about Jessica Durand finding her kinky lover Ms Trunchball (yes from Matilda), featuring the characters of Downtown Abbey, Kermit the Frog and more.
Reading Time: 2 minutesA gritty commentary on the differing variations of grief
Reading Time: < 1 minute‘Service Please’, a fifty minute monologue from the perspective of a writer-turned-waitress, is a show with fantastic potential.
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe room above the Lion and Unicorn in Kentish Town is an unlikely place for a Shakespearean mailroom, yet it was a welcome surprise to see Don’t Shoot the Messenger on a buzzing Saturday night. I caught the final night of this production, as part of the ongoing Camden Fringe, and left feeling entertained but ultimately confused.
Reading Time: 3 minutesA quick-change Hamlet that’s clever, funny, and refreshingly human—if a little light on tragedy