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Thursday, May 2, 2024

Laughing Boy, Jermyn Street Theatre review - impassioned agit prop drama by Saskia Baron

Strong ensemble work highlights the plight of people with learning disabilities On the morning of the press show of Laughing Boy, the BBC news website’s top story was about the abuse of c…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:24AM

Thursday, March 7, 2024

The Lonely Londoners, Jermyn Street Theatre review - evocative portrait of the migrant experience by Saskia Baron

Roy Williams and Ebenezer Bamgboye skilfully bring Sam Selvon's novel to the stage Sam Selvon’s 1956 novel about a flotilla of Caribbean migrants who came to London filled with expectation…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:54AM

Thursday, October 20, 2022

My Neighbour Totoro, Barbican review - dazzling stage adaptation of a Japanese classic by Saskia Baron

Ingenious puppetry and music brings a classic 2-D animation to life on stage As 10-year-old Satsuki observes as she arrives in the countryside with her little sister Mei, “We’re not in T…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 11:19AM

Tuesday, January 14, 2020

Scrounger, Finborough Theatre review - uncomfortable play tackles disability discrimination by Saskia Baron

Athena Stevens confronts the challenges faced by wheelchair-users Scrounger is no comfortable evening in the theatre, for reasons both intentional and inadvertent. Athena Stevens’ new pl…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 10:42AM

Thursday, July 11, 2019

Jellyfish, National Theatre review - Ben Weatherill's play hits the right notes by Saskia Baron

Four-hander about a young woman falling in love transfers from the Bush Theatre The intense relationship between a single parent and a single child is ramped up to its highest level when it…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:42AM

Wednesday, February 20, 2019

All in a Row, Southwark Playhouse, review - soapy and shrill pity party by Saskia Baron

★ ALL IN A ROW, SOUTHWARK PLAYHOUSE Soapy and shrill pity party Clumsy drama tries to raise sympathy for parents with a profoundly autistic child Time once again to roll out that line abou…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:00AM

Wednesday, February 28, 2018

Harold and Maude, Charing Cross Theatre review - Sheila Hancock serene in thin production by Saskia Baron

Theatrical adaptation of the 1971 cult Californian movie doesn't set the stage on fireThe practice of mining the rich seam of popular movies to turn them into stage plays or musicals se…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:00AM

Harold and Maude, Charing Cross Theatre review - Sheila Hancock serene in thin production by Saskia Baron

HAROLD AND MAUDE, CHARING CROSS THEATRE Theatrical adaptation of the 1971 cult Californian movie doesn't set the stage on fireTheatrical adaptation of the 1971 cult Californian movie doesn&#…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:00AM

Saturday, December 9, 2017

The Box of Delights, Wilton's Music Hall review - children's classic novel transferred to stage by Saskia Baron

Matthew Kelly and Josefina Gabrielle provide double the value in John Masefield classicTheatreland is currently awash with pantomimes and rehashes of A Christmas Carol, so all credit to this…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:12AM

Thursday, November 30, 2017

A Christmas Carol, Old Vic review - Rhys Ifans takes on Scrooge, triumphantly by Saskia Baron

Superb staging resurrects Dickens' morality tale Fresh from the success of Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Jack Thorne now gives us his exuberant adaptation of another much-loved tex…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:54AM

Saturday, May 6, 2017

All Our Children review - shameful historical period horrifies anew by Saskia Baron

Stephen Unwin's debut play explores Nazi Germany and eugenics How do you tell a story as complex as the eugenics movement, which is pursued afresh in writer-director Stephen Unwin's new…

SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:31AM

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