Reading Time: 2 minutesEve: All About Her, is a one-man show created by and starring Keith Ramsay. This show began life at the Edinburgh Fringe in 2022, but has now transferred for a limited run at the Soho Theatre in London. The show was heavily acclaimed in Edinburgh and earned Ramsay “The Stage Edinburgh Award for Acting Excellence.” I would have to agree this was a brilliant performance, but the show itself I found incredibly confusing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe Park Theatre's latest production, The Garden of Words, is a based on Makoto Shinkai's beloved anime story and film, co-adapted for the stage by both Susan Momoko Hingley and Alexandra Rutter. An example of Anglo-Japanese theatre collaboration, cultural influences are blended together in this production, and listening to both the English and Japanese language on stage was particularly refreshing.
Reading Time: 2 minutesMichele Sheldon’s fringe production Fleecehold, as part of the Camden Fringe Festival, brings together an ensemble cast to tell of the scandal in Leasehold housing that is attaching “onerous terms” to contracts and deeds. If it sounds heavy, Sheldon’s bouncy, episodic writing, the pacey direction, and the humour and caricature that the cast bring to it transforms it into an enjoyable and enlightening evening.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWord-Play has a lot to say about the impact of language and, for the most part, succeeds in not only helping the audience see its effect but feel it, too—all the while skewering those types of people we know well.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteMolly is the story of a young woman who works at Greggs, parties on the weekends and goes through the unthinkable. The set up is simple - we meet Molly in all her Greggs garb and we even get to see her love of sausage rolls. We learn she’s single, loves her job and all the regulars, and on the weekend indulges in a bit of cocaine.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteOpening their show with a song about Cucks is a strong start for the duo who’s show explores archetypes of 2010’s men. What the duo have in spades, is charm and crazily intelligent humour, some of which is translatable, some less so. You just need to be careful if you’re not a 2010’s male archetypes fan - you may get lost in the insanely specific references.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteLena is the brand new ‘play with music’ written by BAFTA and Olivier award-winner Tim Whitnall showing at Assembly this August. It follows the Rise and Fall of Lena Zamboni and child star who’s journey was in contrast to the glittering shine of Opportunity Knocks. The show is hosted by Hughie Green - the Simon Cowel in the story although it is also narrated throughout by the Father.
Reading Time: 3 minutesDrawing inspiration from the classic fairy tale Cendrillon (or as most of us know it, Cinderella), La Cenerentola tells the tale of a young woman compelled to serve her cruel stepfather and unappreciative stepsisters as a lowly servant. Meanwhile, Prince Ramiro embarks on a quest to discover the most beautiful woman in the kingdom to be his future wife.
Reading Time: 2 minutesWe spend a third of our lives in bed.... If only beds could talk! Is the tagline for this 60 minute musical showing at Gilded Balloon Teviot this August. The concept is simple and quiet, no showy big numbers, just human connection and real stories.
Reading Time: < 1 minuteTelevision 1 is the brand new debut show for Joe Pearson & Rory Cargill, a character comedy sketch show which takes the audience through TV programming of the 20th Century. Starting with a Alfreds Astonishing Adventures and taking us through to an embarrassing body sketch the pair hit on all the pop culture shows that made TV what it is.