REVIEW: Mums
Reading Time: 2 minutesMums, the debut production from Psychonaut Theatre, an experimental group of internationally diverse performers, is a deeply captivating exploration of what it means to lose, and what it means to gain.
Category Drama
REVIEW: To Have and To Hold
Reading Time: 3 minutesTo Have and To Hold, written by Mark Bastin, is a play centred on the lives of an elderly couple, Dennis (Mark Steere) and Gina Woodman (Susan Graham).
REVIEW: Arms and the Man
Reading Time: 3 minutesA romantic comedy set in three acts, Arms and the Man is nothing short of hilarious.
REVIEW: My Dad Wears A Dress
Reading Time: 2 minutesMy Dad Wears A Dress is a one-woman show in which Maria Telnikoff, writer and performer, takes us on a journey through her early life and what it looked like particularly in relation to her father who lives as a transgender woman.
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.
REVIEW: A Sherlock Carol
Reading Time: 2 minutesWritten and directed by Mark Shanahan, A Sherlock Carol is on just a stone's throw from Baker Street at the new Marylebone Theatre, which is the perfect setting for this Dickensian crossover show.
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: The Importance of Being Earnest
Reading Time: 3 minutesPlaying at The Rose Theatre in Kingston until 12th November, don’t miss this deliciously witty, fast-paced new production of Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest, which takes on a sizzling modern feel in the hands of director Denzel Westley-Sanderson.
REVIEW: By the Light of the Moon
Reading Time: 2 minutesIt’s 1928. Lila is all alone in a hospital for the criminally insane. Without any support, she is forced to face her secrets and the darkness of her past that led to her imprisonment “Packed with playful poetry and vivid trauma,” says the description, though this one-woman show from Shea Donovan perhaps struggles with the latter claim.
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.