Review: The Comedy of Errors
The most intelligent Comedy of Errors I’ve seen since the NT production of 2012 and truer to the play’s temper.
Review: The Comedy of Errors
The most intelligent Comedy of Errors I’ve seen since the NT production of 2012 and truer to the play’s temper.
Review: Lobster Bisque
Go and see this innovative traditional farce of clown, puppetry, burlesque and so much more, you will not be disappointed!
Review: Rock, Paper, Scissors
A joyous revival. Though working in TV production, Hayden’s writing is too good, too well-shaped not to develop in theatre instead.
Review: Bedroom Farce
A winter-warming hit.
Review: The Proposal/The Bear translated by Stephen Mulrine
Elaine Larkin’s production is all of a piece and like all original readings asks of Chekhov what he wants. Larkin also makes demands on her actors they mostly cope very well with, and two excel in: though some of Chekhov’s subtleties – they exist even here – are bleached out. Firmly recommended though.
Review: Accidental Death of an Anarchist
The adage that farce is tragedy speeded up met its greatest progenitor in Dario Fo. In a ferocious new version by Tom Basden of Franca Rame’s and Fo’s Accidental Death of an Anarchist, directed by Daniel Raggett in a stunning production now at the Haymarket, the target here is squarely the London Met. And if you slowed down Basden’s brilliant, no-holds-unbludgeoned telling, details prove tragic enough.
Review: Dimanche
Sensational, Dystopian Portrait of a Changing World
Review: The Ruffian on the Stair and Funeral Games
Joe Orton’s The Ruffian on the Stair and Funeral Games come to the Lantern Theatre for four performances. This in-house double bill of one-acters is directed by Daniel Finlay and Mark Burgess respectively. A fitting end to the Lantern’s extraordinary week
Review: The Grand Old Opera House Hotel
An absolute blast with gags galore, soaring operatic arias and great performances
Review: Rubbish Romeo and Juliet
Simply the best way to introduce anyone to the works of the Bard
Review: Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!
A cost-of-living revolution in St James Street? You’d better believe it as Triada Theatre kick off the weekend with Dario Fo’s 1974 Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay! at the Lantern Theatre. Superb, energised theatre, rough occasionally, but mostly very-well performed, imaginatively staged, rapturously received. Now get out on the streets.
Review: Miss Margarida’s Way
A darkly funny satire on the depths of totalitarian manipulation
Review: Can’t Pay? Won’t Pay!
Solidarity in the face of economic hardship
Review: Noises Off
An outstanding must-see, even for those who might have seen Noises Off more than once before.
Review: Cluedo
An object lesson in comic timing; a steep cut above the ‘real’ whodunnits we’re likely to see this year or next.
Review: The Wrong Planet
There’s a great act struggling out of this blissfully baggy monster.
Review: While the Sun Shines
An outstanding revival. Again.
Review: The Play That Goes Wrong
A play about amateurs no amateur company should even dare contemplate. There’s genius in the timing of all this. Outstanding.
Review: The Bank Job
A really good idea that has style but lacks the killer punch.
Review: Corpsing
Dignitas with a difference
Review: The Merry Wives of Windsor
One of the two most cogent, most fun Merry Wives of recent years.
Review: One Man, Two Guvnors
Outstanding. An immediate comic classic.
Review: Rumors
A sublimely silly farce. BLT deliver with panache and punch. Believe the whispers.
Review: The Crown Dual
A right royal romp
Review: Rubbish Shakespeare – A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Rubbish Shakespeare? Anything but!
Review: TGIF
An intriguing night to forget with friends who confront their relationships in a game night tradition which nearly goes wrong.
Review: The Last Croissant
An outdoor take on classic farce.
Review: Hysteria
In all the flurry of Fringe, don’t miss this gem.
Review: Don’t Dress for Dinner
For a farce there’s only one spot of monotony. That’s how uniformly outstanding this is.
Review: The Comedy About a Bank Robbery
A redefining farce in every way.
Review: Departure Date
Death farce that delivers some of the drama some of the time
Review: The Gin Chronicles in New York
A Radio Play wth a Twist...of Lemon.
Review: Beyond Therapy
You want Bruce and Prudence to be happy till the lights go down, and to do that it needs a supreme breathlessness, then a slow exhalation at the very end. Worth seeing still.
Review: The Messiah
Incestuous stars, passing of the ears, deep heat as a condition not an old muscle unguent. The dotty felicities of Patrick Barlow’s language in The Messiah directed by Rod Lewis are easily masked in the Norman Wisdom-like pratfalls of his hapless duo. Unless you add Mrs Flowers; and you should.
Review: Timeshare
There’s a fizz and pop to this play: Miguel the electrician has electrocuted himself. He’s done more than that though. Philip Ayckbourn should be feeling just a little proud of the professionalism of the cast, crew and his own script.
Review: A Little Murder Never Hurt Anybody
With BLT there’s never anything less than carat quality production and as usual some treasurable performances. Do see this rarity and you’ll end up agreeing with playwright Ron Bernas, and the team here.
Review: The Oppression Olympics
Four strangers fight it out to see who has it the toughest.