Review: Home Chat, Finborough Theatre
It's not often that you see Noel Coward plays and rarer still that you see them performed in such a space as Finborough Theatre. With possibly more actors on stage than people in the front r…
It's not often that you see Noel Coward plays and rarer still that you see them performed in such a space as Finborough Theatre. With possibly more actors on stage than people in the front r…
It has been a couple of years since Tim Crouch's Adler and Gibb doused the Royal Court stage with its unfurling question of reality versus art and whether or not there is value in either. Wh…
Originally an RSC commission in 2013, Alice Birch was asked, along with three other female writers, to respond to the provocation that well behaved women seldom make history. The result is a…
A young woman is alone in a small but tidy flat, doing yoga on a pink floor mat. She stops, catches her breath and opens a bottle of wine. As she sips she stares pensively into the middle di…
Many revivals find ways to update their production to engage a modern audience. Unfortunately, despite its name, The Entertainer wasn’t all that entertaining. The Entertainer takes us …
Look away now if you're easily offended. Lucy McCormick's Triple Threat begins as it means to go on: with McCormick's highly-sexed and potty-mouthed Virgin Mary making free with a crucifix o…
During the time they have been at this year's Fringe, friends and collaborators Otto Farrant and Finn Cooke have stayed tied together by rope. From this intimate experience has arisen Spool,…
In this, the centenary year of the Battle of the Somme, Incognito Theatre's all-male ensemble have adapted Erich Marie Remarque's All Quiet on the Western Front, a blistering evocation of li…
Eurohouse begins with the audience holding hands in a circle. It is a simple but symbolic act in a piece that takes a sideways look at the once harmonious partnerships created by the Europea…
Adura Onashile's new play Expensive Shit rises to its title, travelling between the bogs of a grimy modern-day Glasgow nightclub and The Shrine club in 1970s Lagos. Peering into Karen Tennen…
In February 2014, Kiev's Maidan Square was overtaken by protesters taking a stand against their corrupt president Viktor Yanukovych and his increasingly anti-EU, pro-Russian rule. What ensue…
Heartbeats and Algorithms is a chilling tale for the tech-savvy millennial: you are what you click; your search history defines you. Think you're spontaneous? Think again. In her one-woman s…
Cats, Selfies and the Scattered Mind of the Incurable Dreamer is a verbal collage; a comedic piece of internet verbatim which is also a loosely coherent narrative about two strangers connect…
What if an attempted rape cannot be proven? What if, by the time any witnesses show, the attacker appears the bloodied, tied-up victim, and the victim seems to have become the ruthless, craz…
Sonder is a physical theatre piece devised by a group of young adults. It is about feelings of loneliness, and presses its audience to understand that people you pass everyday have their own…
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Ordinary Days is a show that is very close to my heart. It involves intricate writing from Adam Gwon which tell the story of four New Yorkers and how accidental incidents can bring people cl…
Any show " good or bad " that supplies genuine intrigue from the very moment you walk through the door, as you are greeted with a sea of staring faces, is certainly going to be memorable. Di…
Entering the Brockley Jack Studio, the audience also enters into the emotional world of Joseph K, as we watch the production's sole actor Brendan O'Rourke crawl about on his hands and knees,…
JB Priestley’s little known play The Roundabout is a light comedy about the class system in 1930s England. Richard Kettlewell (Brian Protheroe), a wealthy businessman is losing all his…
Marking Shakespeare’s 400-year anniversary, Get Over It Productions, perform one of his classic comedies to commemorate their own 10 year stint at Camden Fringe. The Taming of the Shre…
This year, marking Shakespeare’s 400th anniversary, has been the perfect time to get into Shakespeare, or renew your undying love for the Bard, with multiple modernised and varied adap…
First a novel, then a film, now a play, Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist's prolonged shelf life is proof that it is a story for our times. This first ever stage adaptation by Step…
The storyline of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman's cult classic, Little Shop of Horrors, is well known. Mushnik's flower shop is a haphazard, run down enterprise, which hasn't had a customer w…
Set over three levels of Peckham's popular cultural hub The Bussey Building, the Youth Music Theatre company deliver an energetic but chaotic musical hinged on a quest. At the heart of the s…