Reading Time: 5 minutesWe sat down for an exclusive interview with actor Lottie Walker who stars as PL Travers in Clare Norburns' Practically Imperfect - a new surreal comedy with music pits writer PL Travers against her own creation, Mary Poppins.
Reading Time: 2 minutesAnd therein lies the main issue with Ghost Grandma. Marketed as a comedy, it struggles to maintain any consistent comedic impact. Despite the cast’s evident commitment, the script and direction leave many jokes falling flat, and the actors’ often overstated delivery of punchlines makes the tonal shifts that come later in the play all the more jarring and uneven.
Reading Time: 2 minutesPrecise observations, as funny as they are well constructed Pierre Novellie’s business suit and florid tie are incongruent with Soho Downstairs’ crammed-in seating and smell of stale beer. But this exceptionally well-pitched show is unimpeded, and delivers…
Reading Time: 3 minutesA visually stunning, ensemble-driven physical-theatre piece where “brides” become a darkly funny machine for belonging. Physical theatre company Gecko mark their 25th anniversary with a restaging of their 2017 production The Wedding, debuting at Sadler’s Wells East…
Reading Time: 5 minutesJames Nash and Pip Williams of CONGLOMERATE: The Internet, the “unsettling” and their collaboration on Guidelines. Guidelinesis a live haunting for the social media age, a primordial ritual conjuring the dark side of growing up online. Running…
Reading Time: 3 minutesAn assured and thoughtful new musical that succeeds not by reinventing its story, but by choosing carefully where to stand within it. Beautiful Little Fool at Southwark Playhouse Borough is an assured and thoughtful new musical that…
Reading Time: 2 minutesSimple and small scale, Cosi’s female trio pack a performance punch Così Fan Tutte is not a modern tale. Full of sexist tropes aplenty, its simple plot explores how foolish men can be, though their stupidity is…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA devastating drama on the agony of choice A 95-minute emotional whirlwind Guess How Much I Love You? Never slows down. The opening production of Royal Court’s 70th Anniversary Season, artistic director David Byrne wanted to begin the year…
Reading Time: 2 minutesA smart, silly satire exposing how women contribute to upholding the patriarchy ROTUS is a one-woman show about Chastity Quirke, a stereotypical ‘dumb blonde’ Republican who lands herself the position of the White House receptionist. Desperate for…
Reading Time: 2 minutesPart of FreshFest (The Old Red Lion Theatre’s 4th-year-running festival that celebrates new writing) Ché Tligui’s Concrete had only been previously exhibited at twenty minute scratch nights.