John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
Recent Reviews
Statues. Bush Theatre.
The Bush Theatre has a rich history of programming new works by British Black and Asian writers, including a recent hit [...]
The King of Hollywood. White Bear Theatre.
Douglas Fairbanks was a groundbreaking figure in early American cinema. Celebrated for his larger-than-life screen presence and athletic prowess, he became [...]
Gay Pride and No Prejudice. Union Theatre
Queer-inspired reimaginations of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice are a more common species than one might initially imagine. Hollywood romcom Fire [...]
Knife on the Table. Cockpit Theatre.
Knife on the Table, Jonathan Brown’s sober ensemble piece about power struggles, knife violence, and relationships in and around a gang [...]
Gigi & Dar. Arcola Theatre.
Writer Josh Azouz’s work Once Upon a Time in Nazi Occupied Tunisia, which had a well-received run at the Almeida Theatre [...]
The Dedication. White Bear Theatre.
The relationship between composer Gustav Mahler and his much younger wife Alma is complex and turbulent. She wants to write music [...]
Roots. Almeida Theatre.
Before the ‘angry young men’ of the 1950s, so we are often told, British theatre was dominated by well-crafted drawing-room comedies, [...]
Look Back in Anger. Almeida Theatre.
Accusations of misogyny dog John Osborne’s 1956 masterpiece Look Back In Anger. The work bleeds toxic male despair. To a modern [...]
The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker. Omnibus Theatre.
The show blurb for Tobi Poster-Su’s The Lonesome Death of Eng Bunker describes the piece as a “gothic horror about the [...]