Theatre Archive

REVIEW: CINDERELLA AT THE LYRIC THEATRE

And they all lived happily ever after. Hardly a plot spoiler in the fairytale circumstances created by this Rodgers and Hammerstein confection of Cinderella, which in turn relies heavily on the 17th-century tale concocted by Charles Perrault. Disney has made that version …

REVIEW: The mousetrap at Theatre Royal

So you think the butler did it? That’s the long-running surmise to the identity of the killer in Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap, which began its run in London in 1952 and is still going strong (having outlived Queen Elizabeth (RIP) and Britain’s …

Review: Golden Blood at The Stables

  Engaging from the first minute, Merlynn Tong’s Golden Blood is a journey into another world. At least, for most of us. Known only as ‘Girl’, we meet Tong’s character (yes, the playwright is also actor) as an abandoned 14-year-old in Singapore. …