Theatre Reviews
The Shrine & Bed Among the Lentils, Bridge Theatre review - loneliness shared, with wit and melancholySaturday, 12 September 2020
Monologues and duets rule the stage right now. We can only dream of the day when theatre steps up to the classical music scene’s boldness and manages to have more performers gathered together, albeit suitably distanced (not so easy when the drama needs physical contact, though there are plenty of plays that don’t). Read more... |
The Outside Dog & The Hand of God, Bridge Theatre review - gems of frustration and disquietFriday, 11 September 2020
For some of us, it doesn’t take a lockdown to imprison us in our own hellish little world. Since his first series of dramatic monologues, broadcast on the BBC in 1988, Alan Bennett has taken a scalpel to the mindsets of those who have battled life’s disappointments and disillusionments by creating their own, often equally destructive, realities. Read more... |
Rose, Hope Mill Theatre online review - a performer at her peakThursday, 10 September 2020
Solo plays and performances are, of necessity, the theatrical currency of the moment, whether across an entire season at the Bridge Theatre or last week at the Old Vic in the too briefly glimpsed Three Kings, starring a rarely-better Andrew Scott. Read more... |
C-o-n-t-a-c-t, Musidrama review - a beautifully bonkers promenadeMonday, 07 September 2020
A woman sits on a bench. She’s got a song stuck in her head – she can’t remember how one of the lines ends, so it keeps going round and round. It mingles with birdsong, idle musings on whether birds look down on us (figuratively as well as literally), and worries about the strange pain in her chest. The woman’s name is Sarah (Laura White), and she’s not speaking out loud. Luckily, all of us audience members can hear what she’s thinking. Read more... |
Three Kings, Old Vic: In Camera review - Andrew Scott vividly evokes generational painSunday, 06 September 2020
The world premiere of Stephen Beresford’s new hourlong play, livestreamed to home audiences in four performances as part of the Old Vic’s In Camera series, was postponed a couple of times due to Andrew Scott undergoing minor surgery. Read more... |
Sleepless, Troubadour Wembley Park Theatre review - love from afar in this amiable musicalWednesday, 02 September 2020
Originally due to premiere back in March, Sleepless – a musical version of the winning 1993 movie Sleepless in Seattle – now acts as a test case for the return of fully staged but socially distanced indoor theatre, AKA Stage 4 of the Government’s “roadmap”. Read more... |
One Enchanted Evening, Glastonbury Abbey review - concert of West End show tunesTuesday, 01 September 2020
On a normal bank holiday weekend there would be festival events held in the grounds of Glastonbury Abbey. Read more... |
Beat the Devil, Bridge Theatre review – Ralph Fiennes delivers an arresting account of Covid-19Monday, 31 August 2020
For a riveting, cathartic – and often surprisingly humorous – 50 minutes Ralph Fiennes paces the stage at the Bridge Theatre to deliver an account of Covid-19 that is as political as it is personal. Read more... |
Declan, Traverse Theatre online review - compressed and compellingFriday, 28 August 2020
In normal times, Edinburgh Festival audiences would now be packing into the city’s invaluable Traverse Theatre, home to some of the most vibrant new writing in the country. Read more... |
A Little Night Music, Opera Holland Park review - wasn't it bliss?Tuesday, 18 August 2020
A lot of rain and untold bliss: those were the takeaways from Saturday night’s alfresco Opera Holland Park concert performance of Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler’s eternally glorious 1973 musical, A Little Night Music. Read more... |
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‘A compulsive, involving, emotionally stirring evening – theatre’s answer to a page-turner.’
The Observer, Kate Kellaway
Direct from a sold-out season at Kiln Theatre the five star, hit play, The Son, is now playing at the Duke of York’s Theatre for a strictly limited season.
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‘This final part of Florian Zeller’s trilogy is the most powerful of all.’
The Times, Ann Treneman
Written by the internationally acclaimed Florian Zeller (The Father, The Mother), lauded by The Guardian as ‘the most exciting playwright of our time’, The Son is directed by the award-winning Michael Longhurst.
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