For Chronic Insanity's latest piece entitled Snowflakes the company has partnered up with Dissident Theatre in a production at London's Park Theatre. It's a dystopian alternative reality com…
A good double bill of one act plays can be a bit of a rarity. It might consist of pieces with radically different themes by diverse writers who adopt varying tones forming an unsatisfactory …
Taking as his central text American journalist John Reed's seminal book Ten Days That Shook The World, Matthew Jameson's "labour of love" project Ten Days (it has taken a mere 10 years or so…
Expertly directed by the ever dependable Mark Gatiss, The Way Old Friends Do at the Park Theatre is a surprising delight which does what it says on the tin, and then a bit more.
Benny And Hitch concentrates on the turbulent relationship between the director and his often first choice composer, Bernard Herrmann. They worked together on an unbroken stretch of eight fi…
Writer John Mortimer once said "Farce is tragedy played at a thousand revolutions per minute", a notion which Enda Walsh seems to have taken to heart in his 2006 play The Walworth Farce at t…
Although Windfall at the Southwark Playhouse purports to be a farcical comedy, I only found myself intermittently chuckling; the rest of the time I sat with my metaphorical head in my metaph…
The latest piece to grace the stage of the Park Theatre is a curious beast, and no mistake. Taking the form of a (fictional) lecture with illustrative acted examples, a healthy dose of audie…
The lockdown experience was, of course, an infinitely lonely and disturbing one for many and involved living life rather differently. It was also a time for making discoveries about oneself …
Ever since Covid's early days pioneering company Threedumb Theatre has developed and sustained the idea of the one shot livestream; this is unedited and raw but captures much of the spontane…
Small Truth Theatre has commissioned a series of micro plays recorded as part of its Digital Caravan space (their original mini theatre on wheels being decommissioned because of the need for…
It's been an absolute age (well, about a year anyway) since I visited those innovative people at Chronic Insanity. They are well known for pushing boundaries of the possible in both live and…
One of Alan Ayckbourn's biggest ever successes, 1975's Bedroom Farce, has only just made the transition in an entertaining production from Martin Jarvis and Rosalind Ayres which premiered in…
If you want to see a couple of young actors bringing truth and sincerity to a well structured piece of dialogue and elevate it towards the stars which provide a backdrop to this piece, then …
The War Of The Worlds: The Immersive Experience from experts in the field Layered Reality takes H.G. Wells' famous novel, adds a heavy layer of input from the famous 1978 concept album maste…
What is certain is that if you want an account that's faithful to the spirit (sorry!) of the original but doesn't let proceedings drag on (it comes in at under two hours without missing much…
It's that time of year when days get shorter, nights get longer and tale telling revolves around the supernatural. Just a couple of days ago the last thing I saw on stage, Here, was (partly)…
When individual members of a family are facing a variety of problems, can looking back at their collective past help to resolve matters or does that simply serve to make things worse? This i…
Philip Ridley's The Poltergeist is an irresistibly restless creation which emulates the troublesome violent spirit conjured up by the title. The firework cracking solo piece has had a checke…
Darkfield promoted site specific theatre even when we couldn't actually go anywhere. Their neat answer was to get you using spaces in your own home or in permitted public places such as a pa…
Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett meet in a cricket pavilion and end up as trapped as some of the characters in their plays
September 2020 and the pandemic was quietly raging. So too was Maureen Lipman in Hope Mill Theatre's online production of Martin Sherman's intense monologue Rose; her performance was routine…
Three Women & Shakespeare's Will comes from the pen of Joan Greening who has made something of a speciality of writing about historical figures connected to the arts, albeit in imaginary…
So, it was with a sense of keen anticipation that I approached Dante Or Die's latest piece entitled Odds On which is currently on a "digital tour". It's a piece about the world of online gam…
A real life adventure told with wit, flair and some stunning movement sequences