REVIEW: We Were Promised Honey
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this bare production by YESYESNONO, Sam Ward, the performer and writer of We Were Promised Honey addresses the audience directly and lets us decide the next hour.
Category ★★★★½
REVIEW: Dinner with Groucho
Reading Time: 2 minutesT. S. Eliot and Groucho Marx were unlikely pen pals, corresponding for three years until they met in June of 1964. The reports say that Groucho reread King Lear so he could hold his own in conversation; Eliot was more interested in talking about Duck Soup. This meeting is the inspiration for Frank McGuinness’s newest play which revels in the imagined repartee of these two giants of their field.
REVIEW: The Mousetrap
Reading Time: 2 minutesOn the Mousetraps' 70th anniversary, we're invited to indulge in a classic period piece that made me feel as though I'd been transported back to the early 1950s when the play first debuted.
REVIEW: Alice
Reading Time: 3 minutesJasmin Vardimon is an award-winning choreographer and her newest show is a reimagining of the classic story of Alice in Wonderland.
REVIEW: Blood Brothers
Reading Time: 2 minutes A relatable and entertaining Scouse classic, bringing the class divisions of the late 20th century to light. Having studied Blood Brothers back in school, I was really looking forward to seeing it on the stage. Let me…
REVIEW: The Solid Life of Sugar Water
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlaying at Richmond’s Orange Tree Theatre until the 12th November, Sugar Water delves into the relationship between Alice (Katie Erich) and Phil (Adam Fenton), with no painful, cringeworthy or intimate detail left unshared.
REVIEW: A Billion Times I Love You
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis play supported by Homotopia, a Liverpool based LGBQIA arts festival tells a raw queer love story. A Billion Times I Love You is a beautiful depiction of a realistic relationship that takes into account an individual’s struggles and how they can strain a relationship.
REVIEW: Star Wars: Return of the Jedi
Reading Time: 3 minutesAs part of the Royal Albert Hall’s ‘Film’s in Concert’ series, the London Symphony Orchestra performed the Oscar-winning composer John William’s musical score, accompanying a projection of the sixth episode of Star Wars for the first time in the UK.
REVIEW: Eureka Day
Reading Time: 2 minutesThe show in question is Eureka Day, written by Jonathan Spector and directed by Katy Rudd, making its UK premiere after a 2019 run in the States
REVIEW: Les Ballets Trockadero – Programme B
Reading Time: 3 minutesThis week the indomitable Trocks make their return to the Peacock Theatre stage and regale audiences with a second programme, running from the 12th – 17th September, presenting an inspired and colourful selection of works based on Fokine, Petipa and Balanchine.