REVIEW: Rumble in the Jungle: Rematch
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt is a clever time to re-stage the titanic fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali.
Category ★★★☆☆
REVIEW: The Nag’s Head
Reading Time: 2 minutesShows promise with its fun premise and talented cast We meet siblings Jack, Sarah, and Connor in their family pub, The Nag’s Head, at the end of their father’s wake. We soon learn that Dad had been…
REVIEW: Do I Love You?
Reading Time: 3 minutesA warming story of finding and keeping ‘the faith’ told to a soulful beat Wandering into the intimate, black box studio at the Old Fire Station in Oxford, I was immediately filled with comfort. A warm light…
REVIEW: The Diviners
Reading Time: 2 minutes'The Diviners’ is brought to the Golden Goose Theatre by the innovative The People Show theatre company. The Diviners explored four broken A.I entities trying to navigate and make sense of the world that they were in.
REVIEW: The Incident Room
Reading Time: 3 minutesWalking into Liverpool’s Royal Court on the second night of Olivia Hirst and David Byrne’s The Incident Room’s, one steps back into the 1970s and into the centre of the police hunt for the notorious and elusive Yorkshire Ripper.
REVIEW: Flowers for Mrs Harris
Reading Time: 2 minutesNot a masterful floral centrepiece, but a decent bouquet that most people would still be alright with Flowers for Mrs Harris is a new(ish) British musical based on the novel by Paul Gallico which was published in…
REVIEW: Imposter 22
Reading Time: 2 minutesA thought-provoking yet confused production Imposter 22, a pioneering theatrical creation emerging from a five-year collaboration with learning-disabled and autistic artists at Access All Areas, challenges the conventional boundaries of stagecraft with its whodunnit narrative. The performance…
REVIEW: The Standard Short Long Drop
Reading Time: 2 minutesA nuanced look at right and wrong The Standard Short Long Drop by Rachel Garnet is a one act exploration of what it means to be human. Playing with the game theory of the worth of a…
REVIEW: Pygmalion
Reading Time: 3 minutesPatsy Ferran and Bertie Carvel star in the revival of George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, a play written in 1912, a classic tale of rags to riches, familiar to us, having inspired films such as My Fair Lady and Pretty Woman. Pygmalion follows the transformation of Eliza Doolittle (Patsy Ferran), from a working-class girl, selling flowers in Covent Garden, into a refined, presentable "lady". Eliza's story begins with her meeting the phonetics professor Henry Higgins (Bertie Carvel) and Colonel Pickering (Michael Gould). Higgins makes a bet with Pickering that through training and speech lessons, he could replace Eliza's cockney accent and blasphemous language, with the speech and mannerisms of a high-class lady, and pass her off as a duchess in high society. Eliza is transformed and suddenly a new world is opened up to her; various parties, social opportunities, and romantic interests. As expected, this big change has its consequences, and as we follow the effects of Eliza's new social status, we also observe the changing relationship between Eliza and Higgins, leading to questions concerning class, identity and power.
REVIEW: Rebecca
Reading Time: 3 minutesFollowing successful productions in 12 countries around the world, the musical adaptation of Daphne Du Maurier’s 20th century classic finally finds its way to a London stage, 17 years since its world premiere in Vienna, Austria. Written by the acclaimed duo of Michael Kunze and Sylvester Levay, and adapted in English by Christopher Hampton, another theatre and film legend, this musical adaptation of Rebecca remains true to the original storyline and captures for the most part the essence of the 1938 Goth classic.