266 stories by "Michael Davis"
Medea Electronica bridges the gap between being a theatre company and a band; at the Ovalhouse Pecho Mama has crafted a compelling, contemporary take on the Medea legend.
On the strength of Pennyworth Productions' latest offering, it won't be long before it is as well-known as the more seasoned theatre companies working in the UK today.
Double Infemnity at the Vault Festival explores, amongst other things, a woman working in law enforcement in a virtually all-male environment " much like Marvel's Agent Carter.
In Jen Silverman's play Collective Rage: A Play in Five Betties, staged at the Southwark Playhouse, there are five characters who all have the same name, but are different as can be.
Imagining a time in the near future when mankind's environmental misdeeds catch up with 'him', that's the focus of Cat Loud: To The End Of The World at the Vault Festival.
Much like Stanley Kubrick's oeuvre, the importance of humanity in A Lesson From Auschwitz is emphasised by the negation of it. The play, understandably, can't be said to be 'enjoyable', but …
As a story, The People's Rock: A Musical at the Vault Festival is both intimate and 'large' in its scope, using the tools of Avenue Q and social satire to say something about the value of sp…
Man chooses every day (or not) to yield to the behaviour of his more bestial ancestors or devils, Joe Sellman-Leava's Monster explores this conundrum as part of the VAULT Festival.
Touring show Austen The Musical follows Jane from the beginning of her writing career and throws a spotlight on the potential suitors who informed her later work.
Last year, Trashed earned rave reviews for David William Bryan at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. The play returns this month " this time at the Vault Festival in London " and strong word-of-…
Theatre company Kandinsky has created a play in Still Ill that not only shows what it's like to experience a neurological disorder, but also the rigmarole one faces when trying to get answer…
Catherine Lamb gives an energetic performance, making full use of the performance space. She is able to take the story of one particular young woman in a small British town and give it a uni…
What distinguishes a 'miracle' from a freak accident? Are miracles by definition the impossible made possible? If, however, the definition is widened to the improbable happening when it's mo…
One Festival's Programme A is replete with tales of celebrity, scandal and topiary. While there are moments of levity throughout, it is apparent in the first two plays that the initial humou…
The Charing Cross Theatre has been home to a number of musicals in recent years, but this marks the first time a show by Andrew Lloyd Webber has performed there.
The beginning of the play is immediately evocative of John Masefield's The Box of Delights and Susan Hill's The Woman in Black, with Sylvia having an eerie and memorable train journey.
It's always been an 'open secret' that the 'perfect family Christmas' doesn't exist and that in a post-letter society, writing about 'picture-perfect' lives has been superseded by the advent…
ackling everything from class, race, gender, mental health and LGBT issues, the new writing nights arranged by Actor Awareness have been productive in terms of quality and quantity.
Directed by Alice Hamilton, Thirty Christmases brings the external peculiarities of the holiday season to the fore, plus the bittersweet nature of spending time with family at the close of t…
Peter Pan has been long been a Yuletide favourite, but ever since its inception, the original production with its emphasis on the Darling family and flying has dominated the show's focus. Un…
Focusing on three black inmates in Winson Green Prison, Shadows addresses the potentially sensitive subject of black identity in the 21st century and how 'cultural heritage' can be a double-…
As plays go, Jean Genet's The Balcony is brimming with metacritical ideas " a fusion of Brechtian intent with a Gallic sensibility. Directed by Velenzia Spearpoint, The Balcony is set in an …
Collating the most scathing reviews in their respective careers, theatremakers Zoe Coombs Marr, Ursula Martinez and Adrienne Truscott fashion these into a postmodern show that deconstructs t…
Directed by Audrey Sheffield, The Dark Room is a play that doesn't like to disclose all its secrets at once. Just as one adjusts to the absence of light over time, so the essence of Angela B…
Taking inspiration from Laurel Thatcher Ulrich's quote that "Well-behaved women seldom make history," theatre group Glass Splinters have recently devoted an evening to nine monologues about …
