REVIEW: Five
Reading Time: 2 minutesEveryone’s a bit obsessed with true crime, aren’t they? Morris (played by Filippo Brozzo) arranges a prison interview with an unnamed serial killer (played by Zak Rosen).
Category Theatre
REVIEW: NIUSIA
Reading Time: 2 minutesMemory arrives in boxes, in fragments, in the cadences of people no longer here. NIUSIA, Beth Paterson's solo show about her late grandmother, a Polish Holocaust survivor, takes this literally.
REVIEW: Little Shop of Horrors
Reading Time: 2 minutesEntertainment labelled a “cult classic” often earns that status for good reason, and Northern Stage and Derby Theatre’s fresh actor-musician revival of Little Shop of Horrors proves exactly why. Plenty of letters could be removed from the production’s tagline, because this revival is simply “class”.
REVIEW: Black Diamonds in the Blue Brazil
Reading Time: 2 minutesHaving known little of Cowdenbeath FC before the play, I will certainly be keeping an eye on The Blue Brazil from here on in, and cheering them and the tight community that surrounds them in the future.
REVIEW: Party Season
Reading Time: 2 minutesAn entertaining comedy that gives a very honest take on modern parenting
REVIEW: An Ideal Husband
Reading Time: 2 minutesFamed writer Oscar Wilde is never far from London stages, with acclaimed National Theatre production The Importance of being Earnest transferring to the West End just last year. Lyric Hammersmith’s production of Wilde’s 1895 An Ideal Husband comes 100 years after the venues last staging of the work.
REVIEW: I’m Not Being Funny
Reading Time: 2 minutesBoth hilarious and emotionally vulnerable, “I’m Not Being Funny” asks: is laughter really the best medicine?
REVIEW: Party Favour
Reading Time: 3 minutesIndicts the expectation that dignity is for sale and explores the line between demeaning and empowering work under late-stage capitalism”
REVIEW: Krapp’s Last Tape/ Godot’s To-Do List
Reading Time: 3 minutesKrapp’s Last Tape by Samuel Beckett starring Gary Oldman/ Godot's To-Do List by Leo Simpe-Asante at Royal Court Theatre five star review
IN CONVERSATION WITH: Hersh Dagmarr
Reading Time: 3 minutesA deeply theatrical, flamboyant cabaret reimagining of Kylie Minogue's biggest pop anthems by queer cabaret spectre Hersh Dagmarr and piano virtuoso Karen Newby, - the perfect act of queer worship to kick off London Pride Weekend in style.