Worth. Arcola Theatre.
The severe, hard-drinking matriarch of the immigrant Yeung family has recently passed away from what grandson Anthony breezily labels “diabetes-related shit”. [...]
Wherever She Is There Is Eden. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
“Wheresoever she was, there was Eden” is the final line from Mark Twain’s comic short story, Eve’s Diary. Twain’s tale is [...]
The Dry House. Marylebone Theatre.
Grieving, alcoholic, fifty-something Chrissy is a shivering, sweating mess who can just about shuffle from the sofa she sleeps on to [...]
Betty Blue Eyes. Union Theatre.
When it premiered 2011, Cameron Mackintosh’s big bucks West End production of Betty Blue Eyes garnered rave reviews and three Olivier [...]
Trolls Online. The Cockpit Theatre.
“But why the trolls?” refugee Gaia enquires of software engineer boyfriend Frank, late on in Tim Thomas’ new musical TROLLS OnLINE. [...]
Gone Too Far! Theatre Royal Stratford East.
Bola Agbaje’s Gone Too Far! premiered at the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs back in 2007, gaining praise and earning the British [...]
Attempts on her Life. Silk Street Theatre.
Martin Crimp's influential postmodernist piece Attempts on Her Life was first seen at the Royal Court back in 1997 and had [...]
The Midnight Snack. Drayton Arms Theatre.
True Crime podcasts are quite the rage nowadays. BBC Sounds carries over 50 of them with dozens more on Apple, Google, [...]
Follow The Lines. The Bread & Roses Theatre.
Olivia Pryle’s urban comedy drama Follow The Lines concerns itself with Chloe, a mid-thirties teaching assistant who just cannot grow up. [...]
Slow Violence. The Pleasance Theatre.
"You're one step away from a brighter day" is the marketing slogan of floundering travel agency Happy Holidays. It is a [...]
Trade. The Pleasance Theatre.
It is the aftermath of the Bosnian war. Jana (Katarina Novkovic) works in her family’s small-town grocery store selling potatoes and [...]
Grey Widow. VAULT Festival.
Writer and comedienne Callum Tilbury names their drag creation Lady Aria Grey. But it is a demonic scarlet colour that dominates [...]
The Messiah Complex. VAULT Festival.
A culture which bans beliefs that cannot be scientifically proven might not sound like the worst imaginable dystopia. It is tempting [...]
The Way Old Friends Do. Park Theatre.
There comes a time in the life of even the most erudite devotees of highbrow music when they just give up [...]
Ten Days. Space Theatre.
Ten Days That Shook the World, American journalist John Reed’s first-hand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution, is one of [...]
Kitty Queen of the Washhouse. King’s Head Theatre.
Catherine “Kitty” Wilkinson (Samantha Alton), the eponymous protagonist of John Maguire’s solidly watchable bioplay Kitty: Queen of the Washhouse appears at [...]
Dry Season. Canada Water Theatre.
Kat Lyons’ spoken word theatre show Dry Season is a busy concoction of physical theatre, poetry, PowerPoint slides, and animation that [...]
Rat King. VAULT Festival
Kelly (Georgina Tack) is a difficult 16-year-old with mental health issues, a tricky relationship with her ex-military dad, and a yearning [...]
Five Years With The White Man. VAULT Festival.
Eloki Obi and Saul Boyer’s single-hander Five Years with the White Man is well worth a look. Part bioplay and part [...]
Trash Salad. VAULT Festival
Trigger warnings do not often include references to salad vegetables. However, here is one for those likely to be offended at [...]
The Blue Whale. The Space.
Lewis (Sam Bush), the hapless protagonist of Julian Felice’s mischievous 60-minute comedy thriller, The Blue Whale, is a misogynistic loser. Desperate [...]
This Bitter Earth. White Bear Theatre.
African American Jesse (a beautifully layered turn by Martin Edwards) is a hard-up budding writer from the Deep South with a [...]
Women, Beware The Devil. Almeida Theatre.
England, 1640. The nation, awash with paranoia over the apparent presence of devilry and witchcraft in every corner, stands on the [...]
Akedah. Hampstead Theatre.
Office cleaner with mental health issues Gill (Amy Molloy) receives a mysterious text message from estranged sister Kelly (Ruby Campbell), 15 [...]