Reviews Archive

  With its crazy mix of comedy, clowning and aerial acrobatics, last year’s Blanc de Blanc from Strut & Fret set the bar high, and the new iteration Blanc de Blanc Encore, which has just opened at the Grand Electric in Surry …

The most important thing to know about Midnight Murder at Hamlington Hall is that it is eye-streamingly funny.  Written by the Ensemble’s artistic director Mark Kilmurry and actor Jamie Oxenbould, it is a good-natured and uproarious send up of amateur theatre and …

‘Are you ready?’ asks the Narrator (Matilda Ridgway) at the beginning. We are, but perhaps not totally prepared for the madcap melodrama, magic and mayhem that is about to unfold in this wildly ambitious realisation of one of Russian literature’s bravest works. …

Inspired by J.M. Barrie’s classic text Peter and Wendy, Little Eggs Collective’s The Lost Boys creates a tumultuous world in which a group of preteens navigate an everlasting realm ruled by a boy king who thrives on volatility. A sixty-minute explosion of …

Thank goodness for the Wharf Revue, which still manages to make us laugh in a world that is full of terrible news headlines, wars and promises of doom. Thank goodness for the cleverness and wit riddling through songs and sketches which make …

There’s nothing like the loss of a parent to bring a family together – or drive it further apart. Add a large dose of sibling rivalry to already heightened emotions and who knows what might happen? In English playwright Shelagh Stephenson’s The …

Where to start? There is so much to enjoy in Debra Oswald’s frank, funny and very personal account of what it’s like to be a writer. From her first thoughts as a child:  ‘I’ll never be a writer, I live in Carlingford …

For this Tony Award-winning show, a musical play about the life of jazz great Billie Holiday, the Belvoir stage has been transformed into a Philadelphia cabaret club, dark and perhaps a little rundown, and complete with a cluster of café tables and …

The Summer of Harold encompasses three delightful short plays from the sharp and witty pen of playwright Hilary Bell, and each one is brought vividly to life by the combined talents of Hannah Waterman and Berynn Schwerdt. But before we even hear …

Greek tragedy is referenced more than once in Nina Raine’s hugely enjoyable and clever Consent, a play that skewers elements of the justice system as it explores a rape case and the question of what is sexual consent? In this production at …