84 stories by "Rebecca Jones"
“What are you seeing tonight?” my flatmate said, “a play about Margaret Thatcher”, “well that should be a barrel of laughs,” he said with all the sarcasm …
The overwhelming question Number 1, The Plaza, left me with is: “have I missed something?” I circulated the bar after the show, like I do, all G&T and bewilderment, asking a …
Soho Theatre Upstairs strikes again, bringing all that's new in experimental emerging theatre companies and falling straight into the hands of Encounter. This company make it their mission t…
What Idle Motion does so cleverly is it delicately interweaves different perspectives of the same story. Those perspectives come in a myriad of forms from the narrative to how they manipulat…
Bad Jews is quite the title. It gives you just the right amount of wince to get you interested " a play that's playing hard to get. It also seems to have an accessible whiff of self-deprecat…
Shaftesbury Avenue: a street that blinds you with bright lights, mighty signs and five stars. You get bedazzled by the offerings and bashed by tourists happily taking 20Â minutes to walk t…
When I picked up my ticket for Frozen the lovely girl on the box office made sure that I wasn't expecting a sing-along tale of princesses in snow, anecdotally recalling that a mother had …
I've always had a soft spot for Trafalgar Studios 2. It feels like a tight fit, forgotten spot but it's slap bang in the middle of the West End. Almost like a secret that makes you feel like…
Lardo pretty much has everything you need for a good, solid chunk of entertainment. It is riotous in humour and violence, with all its own stunts, never seeming to stop for breath or slow do…
Written and performed by boy-wonder Harry Melling, his debut play, peddling is so perfectly balanced, cleverly staged and unnoticeably acted that it's difficult not to just nip this in the b…
Based on the novel Push by Sapphire, and re-imagined and devised by the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, I had mixed expectations. One of which was a flashback to the time I'd wa…
Secret Theatre: ten actors, seven shows " and an entire network of theatremakers of all kinds clubbing together to make it happen. It is one engine ignited and driven by artistic director Se…
The Old Red Lion's black box space has been transported to an uncertain and confining 1984 Leeds pub. I feel claustrophobic as the tiny space is made tinier by oppressive walls of corrugated…
Torben Betts’s Muswell Hill does exactly what it says on the tin. It's a depiction of middle-class, middle-aged lives in a middle England faux-suburb " attracting a similarly middle…
Kill Me Now: even the title is bleakly comedic. The dramatic finality of death chucked into the banality of domesticity. That's exactly the nail that Kill Me Now hits and it hits it hard as …
Joy is three completely separate monologues, delivered by three completely detached men, afflicted by three completely different areas of life – love, job, the whole world – but …
Rich Mix have begun a programme exploring the small stories that make this big old city of ours, poking their noses into everything from attic flats to chicken shops and the swept-up lives o…
A small theatre above a characterful pub in Camden played host to Fresh Femmes’Â launch night. How fresh can a company whose title rejigs the infamously practical FemFresh brand be? …
Nonsuch Theatre's Acqua Alta is a darkly modern retelling of Noah's Ark expressed through rhythm, musicality and satire. Noah is a modern man, a millionaire capitalising on the effects of gl…
Kim Noble has produced yet another indefinably unshakeable show about the endless and fruitless human pursuit to avoid loneliness. Via a multi-faceted and inconceivable journey, he concludes…
Joan of Arc is the last instalment in The Faction's rep season at the New Diorama. The sheer execution of a rep season represents The Faction to a T: delving into nearly forgotten tradition …
To all intents and purposes Happy Ending is a musical about cancer. Not two words frequently paired together 'musical' and 'cancer' and with good reason. 'Happy' and 'ending' presents a simi…
Dokei translates to longing, that wrenching, pit of your stomach emotion that is indefinable and universally specific. The tagline: 'Love as much as you can but let go as soon as you must', …
The Lion and the Unicorn Theatre is my local fringe venue, where everybody knows your name, and log fires and familiarity fuel the atmosphere. And yet every time I step into the theatre spac…
As I sat on a non-moving, severely delayed Victoria Line service, contemplating my lateness and panicking, I began to consider what my expectations of Contact.com were. Perceptually I was ri…
