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Category: Plays
A View from Islington North, Arts Theatre ★★★
Reviewed for The Reviews Hub: Out of Joint theatre company’s evening of political satire collects works old and new by some of our country’s best-known playwrights, taking potshots at several elements of the current political establishment to varying levels of success. The first, oldest piece, is Mark Ravenhill’s The Mother, with Sarah Alexander as a foul-mouthed…
Nude, Hope Theatre, London ★★★
A romantic couple’s lives are determined, and disrupted, by Fate in this mildly intriguing one act play
Goodnight Mister Tom, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★★★
David Wood’s crafted adaptation demands to be seen.
Scenes From 68* Years, Arcola Theatre, London ★★½
Vignettes of civilian life do little to shed light on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict
Eye/Saw – April 3-9
Five shows in five days – and a range of ratings from ★✩✩✩✩ to ★★★★★. Just another week in the life of Eye/Saw…
Radioman, Old Red Lion Theatre, London ★★★★★
A canalside walk turns into a music-fuelled fantasy in Felix Trench’s solo work
Video and photo gallery: Headlong’s 1984 returns to the West End
The Headlong, Almeida and Nottingham Playhouse’s adaptation of George Orwell’s novel returns for a third West End season
Bug, Found111, London ★★★★
Tracy Letts’ electrifying escalation of obsessive paranoia is powerfully protrayed by James Norton and Kate Fleetwood
Cancel the Sunshine, Hope Theatre ★★★★½
In Chantelle Dusette’s one-act play, Maya Thomas plays a young London woman feeling adrift in a play that powerfully captures life with depression.
Private Lives, Aylesbury Waterside ★★½
Originally published on The Reviews Hub. Noël Coward’s 1930 comedy Private Lives is widely regarded as one of his comic masterpieces. Starting with two divorcees discovering, to their horror, that they are honeymooning with their respective new spouses in adjoining hotel suites, Coward’s script contains plenty of smart one-liners and deft send-ups of the social mores of…
Hanging Hooke, St James Studio ★★★½
Reviewed for The Reviews Hub. In any biography of the sciences covering the vast expansion of ideas and theories in the 17th Century, Robert Hooke should be ever present. Yet his name is perpetually overshadowed by his contemporaries, including Christopher Wren, with whom he collaborated on the rebuilding of London after the Great Fire, and…
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