The Underworld. National Theatre.
Public Acts’ The Odyssey is a five-episode community-driven theatrical adaptation of Odysseus’ epic journey. The first four productions were created by and [...]
Convicted Flower. Etcetera Theatre.
Frances Arroyo and Joan Villafañe's 45-minute courtroom drama Convicted Flower concerns itself with Roberta. Virtually imprisoned in her own house, she [...]
Friction Burn. Hope Theatre.
H and S, the protagonists of Sophie Faurie’s short, dark slice of surreal humour, Friction Burn, are the kind of venomous [...]
Dumbledore is So Gay. Southwark Playhouse.
Robert Holtom’s delightful coming-of-age-slash-rom-com Dumbledore is So Gay had a 2020 outing at the VAULT Festival and a late 2021 turn [...]
Homeless. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
One has to admire the consistency of director Moses Hao’s contribution to the Camden Fringe 2023. Earlier in the week he [...]
The Vagina Monologues. Canal Café Theatre.
First staged almost 30 years ago, Eve Ensler’s seminal work, The Vagina Monologues, gets a welcome if subdued revival from director [...]
The Making Of Frederick the Great. Cockpit Theatre.
Eliza Larkey’s The Making Of Frederick the Great certainly does not lack ambition. The story of how a queer 18th Prussian [...]
A Man and a Washing Machine. Etcetera Theatre.
Director Moses Hao’s ‘devised theatre’ production A Man and a Washing Machine aims, so the show blurb tells us, to invite [...]
Mosquito. Cockpit Theatre.
Cameron Corcoran’s two-hander Mosquito is a grim hour of two thoroughly unpleasant characters being thoroughly unpleasant to each other. Which one [...]
24 (Day): The Measure of My Dreams. Almeida Theatre.
Annie Jenkins’ hugely entertaining 24 (Day) The Measure of My Dreams is the first in the Almeida’s planned trilogy of plays [...]
Skin. Jack Studio Theatre.
Writer and director Peter Todd’s Skin opens to the sound of soft country guitar. Two twenty-something sisters, Sadie, and Clara are [...]
You’re Alright. Camden People’s Theatre.
Twenty-something Charlie is not having a good day. Let go from her job she looks forward to an evening “getting steaming” [...]
Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse For England. Old Red Lion Theatre.
It is July 2021. The Euros’ final between England and Italy is about to kick off. Ardent football fan-turned hooligan Billy [...]
Boy Out The City. Blue Elephant Theatre.
Unassuming as he obviously is, writer and performer Declan Bennett tells us at the outset of his autobiographical single-hander, Boy Out [...]
1000 Ways The World Will End And How It Starts Again. Kings Head Theatre.
The collapse of a relationship can sometimes feel like the end of the world. As star-crossed lovers across the centuries have [...]
Pretty Witty Nell. Barons Court Theatre.
Aside perhaps from parts of Mike Bartlett’s recent faux-Restoration comedy Scandaltown, writer and director Ryan J-W Smith seems to have pretty [...]
If This Isn’t Eden Where the Hell Am I? White Bear Theatre.
Writer and director Emily Foxton’s ambitious and darkly comic second play If This Isn't Eden Where the Hell Am I? is [...]
Ghost Light. Hope Theatre.
One gets the impression from Ghost Light that writer Molly O’Gorman spent some of her formative years glued to the box [...]
Looking For Giants. Camden Peoples Theatre.
Cesca Echlin’s exceptional debut play, Looking For Giants, is a provocative and disturbing psychological study of a mind imprisoned within a [...]
Bad Ladz. New Wimbledon Theatre.
Writer and actor Niall Ransome’s well received 2017 debut play FCUK’D was a serious take on the decline of Britain’s welfare [...]
Universal. Omnibus Theatre.
Theatre company Unshaded Arts make a welcome return to Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre for a solid and likeable second series of 15-minute [...]
Sima. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Anxious, depressed, and isolated university student Jess lives alone in her mum’s plush flat overlooking the Firth of Forth. There is [...]
GuyMart. Kings Head Theatre.
George Lacey’s spoof comedy musical GuyMart, currently running as part of the MT Pride Lab at the King’s Head Theatre, relocates [...]
Duck. Arcola Theatre.
Duck, playwright and producer maatin’s coming-of-age comedy-drama about the burgeoning cultural consciousness of a cricket-crazy British Indian adolescent, arrives with serendipitous [...]