Seeing the play itself, it appears that, while the objections to a wider lack of roles for East Asian actors are certainly valid, and the thought of white actors further reducing those meagre casting availabilities equally so, targeting this production for those reasons feels misplaced.
Category: Review
Promises Promises, Southwark Playhouse, London ★★
Is Promises, Promises really only three hours long? It feels longer, and not in a good way. Based on Billy Wilder’s film The Apartment, this musical has some serious creative welly behind it, with a book by Neil Simon and songs by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. But to be blinded by such prestige would be to ignore a skewed sense of 1960s sexual politics that struggles to be counterbalanced by much warmth and heart, and takes an age to tell its story.
Gaslight, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★★
Gaslight, @TheWaterside1 and touring ★★★★ “It is Tointon who throughout makes this production so watchable”
The Tempest, Southwark Playhouse ★★½
A shortened production reduces, rather than improves, Shakespeare’s magical play
Glockenspiel, Tristan Bates Theatre, London ★★
Veterans’ post-traumatic stress disorder is inadequately covered
A Christmas Carol, Lost Theatre ★★★
Alan Menken and Lynn Ahrens’s adaptation gets the amateur treatment
Christina Bianco: O Come All Ye Divas, Charing Cross Theatre, London ★★★★★
An evening of seasonal comedy that should be on everybody’s Christmas list
Aladdin, Waterside Theatre, Aylesbury ★★★★
Some confusing references to EastEnders apart, this is a solidly engaging family pantomime
Soho Cinders, Union Theatre, London ★★★★
It’s safe to call 2016 as the year of Stiles and Drewe, isn’t it? With Half a Sixpence transferring into the West End from Chichester Festival Theatre (where their Travels With My Aunt also debuted), Wind in the Willows touring the UK and rumours that their adaptation of Soapdish may finally be finding its away to…
Licensed to Ill, Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
This potted history of The Beastie Boys captures the spirit and essence of a time in music history
Peter Pan, National Theatre ★★★★★
A movingly hilarious production that combines the magical nature of Never Land and the transformative power of storytelling with the melancholia inherent in Barrie’s writing
Jest End, Waterloo East Theatre, London ★★★
It’s no Forbidden Broadway, but this series of comedy skits has its moments
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