Fine, I’ll admit it, I was 10 minutes late! I had put the event in the calendar and planned to be ready at 7:30 like I would have for a play in a physical theatre but then I decided I wanted an ice cream and the flat mate was finishing the grocery order on Tesco and… well. I think I’ll have a serious problem being … Continue reading Review _Midnight Your Time_ Donmar Warehouse
Welcome to my first review at home, folks! With all the theatres closed, we are lucky to have some venues broadcasting their shows online. It’s far from being the theatre experience we all love and cherish but if I can find one teeny tiny positive side (well, two) is no more sore back from uncomfortable seats and finally I’ve got an excuse to have ice … Continue reading Review _Cyprus Avenue_ Royal Court
I know I’ve just been to the theatre. I know I should keep my addition in check. I swear I had not planned this. It was not my intention to find a £10 Friday rush ticket on the National Theatre’s website for The Welkin on the very day I took the afternoon off work. I just sort of… stumbled upon their website, like, completely unintentionally. I was … Continue reading Review _The Welkin_ National Theatre
The Young Vic is always an interesting venue, the shows I’ve seen there have often been thought-provoking and engaging. Stef Smith’s recent reworking of Henrik Ibsen’s play Nora: A Doll’s House is no exception. Spoilers Smith opens up the original plot of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House to a wider exploration of the role of the woman in three key historical moments relevant to female emancipation. Nora becomes … Continue reading Review _Nora: A Doll’s House_ Young Vic
Saying that there was much excitement about Leopoldstadt, the new play by Tom Stoppard, is probably an understatement. I was lucky enough to catch the recent West End productions of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead and Travesties – both absolutely brilliant – so I was quite looking forward to seeing this one. Spoilers Set in the Jewish quarter of Vienna, Leopoldstadt tells the story of … Continue reading Review _Leopoldstadt_ Wyndham’s Theatre
We all have that friend who makes fun of us because we’ve never seen a play by Beckett, right? That one friend who mocks us because we’ve never watched an absurdist play, read anything from Pinter and how… how do you spell Rosencrantz again? Do you guys know what I’m talking about or is it just my friends that are strange like that? After having … Continue reading Review _Endgame_ The Old Vic
Last minute theatre tickets are the best – who am I kidding, ALL theatre tickets are the best – but especially so when they are for a show you’ve been wanting to see since it was announced. Adapted for the stage by Joel Horwood from a novel by Neil Gaiman, the National Theatre’s production of The Ocean at the End of the Lane is a … Continue reading Review _The Ocean at the End of the Lane_ National Theatre
Spoilers There’s nothing better than the Old Vic’s production of A Christmas Carol to bring on that warm, fuzzy, holiday spirit. The weather outside might be frightful but leave it to the Old Vic to fix that with hot mince pies and tangerines from cheerful folks in Victorian outfits. Jack Thorne’s adaptation of Dickens’ story strikes all the right chords. It’s simple and direct, Ebenezer is brash … Continue reading Review _A Christmas Carol_ The Old Vic
Having devoured Elena Ferrante’s Neapolitan novels when they first came out, I was very much looking forward to this adaptation. Ferrante’s prose has a magnetic quality, its very personal first person narrative draws you in, builds a firm bond between you and its protagonist until you think like her, see the world through her eyes, measure people and ideas like she would. This is, of … Continue reading Review _My Brilliant Friend_ National Theatre
After listening to a couple of songs at the West End Live this summer, I was very much looking forward to &Juliet. It looked like fun, carefree literary revisionism with the right amount of joyful female empowerment and inclusiveness, the perfect recipe for a West End hit. Spoilers Maybe my expectations were set too high. I really wish I could say I enjoyed it – and … Continue reading Review _&Juliet_ Shaftesbury Theatre
The Peanut Gallery 