Theatre
The Shepherd’s Chameleon at the CLF Art Café | Theatre review
Considering its fairly low profile, it is not surprising to see only a few people attending The Shepherd’s Chameleon. The play by Eugène Ionesco, one of the cornerstones of the Theatre of the Absurd, is currently running at the CLF Art Café under the direction of Moji [Read More]
Hutch at Riverside Studios | Theatre review
In the same week that Baz Luhrmann’s predictably brash interpretation of Fitzgerald’s The Great Gatsby hits UK screens, London audiences are treated to another story of Jazz Age excess with this new theatrical biography of Leslie “Hutch” Hutchinson. Leslie [Read More]
Fallen in Love at the Tower of London | Theatre review
The Tower of London was once again a theatre for plots and love affairs yesterday with the first night of Fallen in Love, Joanna Carrick’s new play, brought to us by the Suffolk theatre company Red Rose Chain. Fallen in Love is a new attempt to interpret the life and [Read More]
Playing with Grown-ups at Theatre 503 | Theatre review
With echoes of Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? and the classic drawing room genre, Hannah Patterson’s Playing with Grown-ups explores the tense and emotional consequences of a visit from an old friend and his new, rather unexpected girlfriend. Joanna and Robert are a [Read More]
Cuddles at Ovalhouse | Theatre review
Joseph Wilde’s first full length play, Cuddles, sets itself up as a modern vampire tale, part myth, part bloody reality. Eve is a teenage vampire; imprisoned by her older sister Tabby, the only person who knows she exists. She lives in a highly mythologized world where [Read More]
Unhappy Birthday shocks at Camden People’s | Theatre review
An imaginative approach to performance art, the audience takes on the supporting roles in Amy Lamé’s excessive yet enjoyable one-woman show Unhappy Birthday at Camden People’s Theatre. In bright, red Converse shoes and a white Morrissey T-shirt, Lamé rather comically [Read More]
Prometheus Bound at the White Bear | Theatre review
Cieranne Kennedy-Bell takes on Aeschylus’ Greek tragedy and directs it with a tidy clarity. The stage is sparse but a canvas drape hangs on the back wall with threatening chalk markings of eagles and birds swarming the rock on which Prometheus is bound: a simple yet [Read More]
The Victorian in the Wall at the Royal Court | Theatre review
This little 95-minute production by Fuel Theatre is adorably funny and easy to watch. A flat is created on a tape marked floor and the sounds of its surroundings and goings on are played live onstage using props and the actors’ voices. Will Adamsdale directs, writes and [Read More]
Freak Show at the Roundhouse | Theatre review
Produced by second-year Theatre Practice students at London’s Central School of Speech and Drama, the Accidental Festival has returned to the Roundhouse for the third year in a row, aiming to “take risks and present fresh ideas to a diverse audience”. In the case of [Read More]
The School for Scandal at Waterloo East | Theatre review
Turn of the Wheel theatre company revel in Richard Sheridan’s comedy about the appetite for poisonous gossip. Although set in the foppish 18th century London of Sheridan’s time, the exaggerated characters and their fateful traits are all too familiar. Spreading rumour [Read More]
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