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.
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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: South African Road Trip
Reading Time: 2 minutesIn a time when there are many reasons to feel frustrated, lost and despairing, there isn’t a much better remedy than South African Road Trip to provide, as its subtitle reveals, Good Hope.
REVIEW: King Hamlin
Reading Time: 3 minutesKing Hamlin tells the story of a teenage boy with aspirations of doing well in school and going to university to become a software engineer, before life gets in the way and he gets dragged into the world of drug dealing and gangs. There is definitely a good play somewhere within that premise, unfortunately King Hamlin is not that play.
REVIEW: A Single Man
Reading Time: 3 minutesA Single Man at the Park Theatre London is a 2-Act Play based on the 1964 novel of the same name by Christopher Isherwood, and made more famous by the 2009 film starring Colin Firth.
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: An Improbable Musical
Reading Time: 3 minutesI’m not joking – it is imperative that you mime putting down your teacup, tie your imaginary shoelaces, have a think about what rhymes with ‘lackadaisical’ and run, don’t walk, to a world of musical improbability at the Hackney Empire.
REVIEW: Unknown
Reading Time: 2 minutesUnknown from Dougie Blaxland is an intimate and challenging look at homelessness which hits home hard.
REVIEW: Strictly Ballroom
Reading Time: 2 minutes‘Strictly Ballroom’ follows the story of Scott, an accomplished ballroom dancer, Fran, a beginner ballroom dancer, their contrasting families, and a struggle to break free from expectations and pressure.
REVIEW: The Moors
Reading Time: 3 minutesThe Moors, by American playwright Jen Silverman and showing at the Hope Theatre from the 11th October – 5th November, is an evocative piece of gothic horror that riffs on the experiences, imaginations and preoccupations of the Brontë sisters.