The Hunger Artist. Etcetera Theatre.
Franz Kafka’s trademark absurdity, sense of alienation from society, and all-pervading tone of anxiety are omnipresent in his final published short [...]
Joe Carstairs. Omnibus Theatre.
The ninth annual 96 Festival, Omnibus Theatre’s month-long “celebration of queerness and theatre” kicks off with Joe Carstairs, a verbose, polemical [...]
The Work We Do. White Bear Theatre.
Cerys Jones agreeable comedy drama The Work We Do sees an odd-couple of voice actors meet for the first time at [...]
Houdini’s Greatest Escape. King’s Head Theatre.
Feargus Woods Dunlop’s spoof detective comedy Houdini’s Great Escape sees the famous escapologist and wife Bess on a pre-first world war [...]
So Help Me Dog. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
Writer Dean Stalham used to be a career criminal. In 2002 he was sentenced to three and a half years in [...]
That’s a Bit of Sheer Luck. Old Red Lion Theatre.
It is elementary to see why Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes attracts so many parody writers. Disney’s done it expertly with The [...]
Lie Low. Royal Court Theatre.
First seen at Dublin Fringe in 2022, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s pitch dark and deeply unsettling absurdist comedy-drama Lie Low finally makes [...]
Don’t Take The Pith. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Husband and wife writer Peter Rae and director Helen Bang garnered solid reviews and a Best Comedy London Pub Theatre Awards [...]
Girls Really Listen to Me. Pleasance Theatre.
“It’s boring being hotter and smarter than all of your classmates” 16 year-old rich kid Maddie tells us between selfies and [...]
Far From Home Close To Love. Etcetera Theatre.
In Far From Home Close To Love young German writer and performer Benjamin Kelm tells the intensely personal story of a [...]
The Tailor-Made Man. Stage Door Theatre.
Claudio Macor’s tale of pre-war Hollywood homophobia The Tailor-Made Man had its first stage outing close to 30 years ago. Since [...]
Stop Trying To Look At. Canal Café Theatre.
In earlier iterations writer and performed Jacob Grunberger’s autobiographical single hander Stop Trying To Look At… had the words My D**K [...]
Kunstler. White Bear Theatre.
“I’m aware I’ve offended people” says the eponymous protagonist William Kunstler in an uncharacteristic moment of reflective understatement. There is a [...]
Multiple Casualty Incident. The Yard Theatre.
Much admired British Palestinian writer Sami Ibrahim likes to mix up his genres if not necessarily his subject matter. His Olivier-nominated [...]
Love, Edith. Golden Goose Theatre.
Giulia Asquino and Delia Morea’s one-woman bioplay Love, Edith aims, so the show blurb tells us, to “retrace the decisive moments [...]
Robin Hood (that sick f**k). Bread and Roses Theatre.
The show blurb for Robin Hood (that sick f**k) describes the piece as pantomime-noir, by which one supposes we should have [...]
Black Swans. Omnibus Theatre.
Mum has always been strange. She is the kind of person who walks to the supermarket for milk rather than shop [...]
Gritty Police Drama A One-Man Musical. Soho Theatre.
Writer and Director: Luke Kempner Comedian, actor, and impressionist Luke Kempner’s furiously paced Gritty Police Drama: A One-Man Musical sold out [...]
In Everglade Studio. Hope Theatre.
It is a sultry evening in August 1974. We are in Everglade Studio, a dingy and down-at-heels recording venue deep in [...]
F**king Men. Waterloo East Theatre.
Can it really be 16 years since Joe DiPietro’s fringe favourite F**king Men had its first outing at west London’s Finborough [...]
Black Velvet. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Llew, who is 22 and already a dad, arrives at his mum’s grave at a churchyard in Shooters Hill. He does [...]
Artificially Yours. Riverside Studios.
Twenty-one year old Aaron Thakar’s immensely promising debut comedy Artificially Yours suggests he has read a fair few Alan Ayckbourn plays [...]
Honey Badger. The Cockpit Theatre.
Theatre being what it is, when the stage lights flicker on to reveal a solitary character leaning against a large suitcase [...]
Tides. Hope Theatre.
“My name is Dylan Ward and I have autism” writer and performer Joe Dennis tells us shortly after the beginning of [...]