John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
Recent Reviews
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 [...]
Waiting For Godot. Theatre Royal Haymarket.
Plot summaries rarely come as easy to pen as is the case with Samuel Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece Waiting For Godot. Querulous, [...]
G. Royal Court Theatre.
G, Tife Kusoro’s dense, ambitious, multi-layered work about British black boyhood and urban surveillance won the 2023 George Devine Award, garnering [...]
The Mad Hatter’s Tea Party. White Bear Theatre.
It is 6pm again. Time has stopped, so trapping the Mad Hatter, the March Hare, a farting Dormouse, and the audience [...]
The Unlikely Secret Agent. Marylebone Theatre.
Thirty years on from the arrival of true democracy in South Africa Paul du Toit’s bioplay The Unlikely Secret Agent, adapted [...]
Lima. Etcetera Theatre.
Paris-based writer and performer Julian Azad Bonnet offers up a “Solo Comedy Drama about Life, Love and Loss” in his 50-minute [...]
Lips. Etcetera Theatre.
Alex is the original hot mess. We first meet her drinking tequila and lime, snorting coke, gagging as if to puke, [...]