Anything But A Drag: London’s Vibrant Drag Performance Scene
Hot pink lights fill the stage. Dancing trash cans perform choreography while a cover of the iconic 90s anthem “Barbie Girl” pours out of the speakers, barely audible over the sounds of a cheering, whistling audience. The star of the performance struts in her high-heels across the stage, dressed in...
The National Theatre Adapts School Programmes
The National Theatre adapts programmes to support theatre in schools across the UK throughout 2020/21. Three unique courses (Connections, New Views, Let’s Play) offer high quality online workshops that are flexible with timings for both teachers and students. The theatre is ready to “embrace digital” so that Covid-19 is not...
Snowflake at the Kiln Theatre
Snowflake, a play by Mike Barlett, follows a relationship between a father and his daughter. The production tells the story of underlying strains between a father and his daughter, caused by the political divide around Britain and Brexit. The play was both riveting and heartfelt. Clare Lizzimore, director of Snowflake...
Cinderella at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre
After switching on the Christmas lights in front of the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre in mid-November, Tamika Ramsey brought the energy back inside, starring as the brilliant and dazzling titular character in the company’s annual pantomime: Cinderella. The brilliance of a good pantomime is the production’s ability to crack up both...
A History of Water in the Middle East
Kareem Samara sits alone at the front of the Royal Court Theatre’s Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, quietly playing several instruments and filling the room with a calming energy. Beside him, a screen projection displays a map and the show’s title: A History of Water in the Middle East. While the Middle East region...
The Light in the Piazza at the Southbank Centre
The Light in the Piazza is not the most popular or well known musical; however that does nothing to blunt the poignancy and tenderness of it’s narrative. The South Bank Centres production was all around spectacular and an amazing way to spend two and a half hours. The orchestrations combined...
Trial by Laughter at the Richmond Theater
The problem with this play, and it is a problem, is that it doesn’t know what it is. Is it a comedy, a courtroom drama, a piece of polemic journalism, or a political satire? Laughter may have driven the original rhetoric and William Hone’s own defence two hundred years...
Jeannie; now showing at The Finborough Theatre, London
Not seen for many years, Finborough theatre have gifted the production “Jeannie” to us this festive season. Charming, light and romantic, Scottish playwright Nicolette Kay’s work is guaranteed to make you laugh. Finborough theatre’s stage is small, providing an intimate environment needed to unearth this 1930s version of the Cinderella...
Review: A Funny Thing Happened on the way to Gynaecologic Oncology Unit at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center of New York
Finborough Theatre, 118 Finborough Rd, London SW10 9ED Until Saturday 27 October Tickets: https://www.finboroughtheatre.co.uk/productions/2018/a-funny-thing-happened.php Frankly it would be amiss of me to start a review of this play without addressing its interminable title. Perhaps there is something our American friends find hilarious about it that got lost somewhere on...