Review: Gobbling Market
A visceral exploration of Victorian Britain set against the exploitation, through the Opium Wars, of China, served with a less than delicious meal.
Genre: Solo Performance
Review: Glitch in the Myth
A timeless archetype reimagined through a woman's perspective, capable of resonating with audiences everywhere
Review: Contemporary Sisyphus
A solo journey of pain and discovery beautifully imagined in a movement piece with tremendous grace.
Review: Shower Chair
We meet some people's deepest revelations through performance here, actors finding themselves becoming vulnerable through theatre, getting naked.
Review: Don’t Stop Believing
Shine’s show is no doubt a crowd pleaser, and she’s taken what could easily be perceived as a gimmick and created something enjoyable and fun.
Review: Antidepressed
As with any good comedy, it is littered with relatable content, the ideas that are most people’s everyday realities no matter where they’re from.
Review: MILF and the Mistress
A fascinating exploration of what therapy ought to be a pain in – latex.
Review: Fit Ye Sayin’ Quine?
A poetically beautiful piece of Doric wonder that tells the myths of a generation passing on the tales to the one two below with craft and creative joy.
Review: Across a Love Locked Bridge
A poignant recording of a journey from innocence through the discovery of love, arriving at the knowledge of love, after all what else is there?
Review: BED – A one man show
A solo comedy theatre storytelling stand-up tour de france (and beyond)
Review: AFTER ALL
Weinachter is an interchangeable chameleon: not just a dancer, but a rare performer who can do it all! Her style and execution of ideas paints a beautiful memory of her idiosyncratic talents in exploring the beginning and end of life. Stunningly poignant.
Review: Colleen Lavin: Do The Robots Think I’m Funny
“ Murderbot is going to asses my performance,” says Lavin at the top of the show, “And then you’re going to decide if you care.” At least in this case, the robot did find Colleen Lavin to be very funny. I have to say I agree.
Review: The Last Flapper
Zelda is portrayed as a sympathetic, misused woman without taking away her teeth or her sense of humor.
Review: This Is Not A Play (It’s A Pathetic Cry For Help)
A stunning solo performance of an exquisitely intricate script
Review: Must be this Gay to Ride
A one woman exploration of the gender agenda, which asks some universal LGBT truths in a fascinating monologue.
Review: 60 Minutes of Our Lives
A very entertaining show that is unpredictable, well written and well performed!
Review: Angry Black Woman 101
Moving, relevant, meaningful, entertaining and enlightening show, told by a charismatic performer.
Review: Pretty Beast
Vibrant performance, which runs the entire range of emotions, told with humor, poignance and searing sadness.
Review: Cocky
McLaughlin’s performance and writing are wonderful - poignant and meaningful - told with with humor, pathos and humanity.
Review: Dave, Muhammad and I at the Americana Hotel
Heartfelt and serious story, sincere performance
Review: My First Miracle – adventures in bipolar disorder
Entertaining, vulnerable, insightful and brave. Polished performance
Review: Young Oscar, Wilde in San Francisco
Fascinating story and performance about the compelling character of Oscar Wilde
Review: An A to Z of Fish and Chips
"a pleasing show that may just leave you restless to plunge a little wooden fork into a saveloy."
Review: Ghislaine/Gabler
A spell binding multi layered exploration of privilege, entitlement, and the desire to control…
Review: She-Wolves
Informative story-telling about historic women rulers and how they have been represented and mis-represented through time.
Review: A Eulogy for Roman
An astonishing solo show of one man’s search for meaning within himself, with audience participation.
Review: Spirit of Woodstock 2 – The Sequel
There’s no greater writer/performer working in Brighton, or Sussex, and Spirit of Woodstock Parts I and 2 is Jonathan Brown’s most dazzling show to date.
Review: OD’D
Highly skilled and theatrical solo acrobatics with balls, silks and centrifugal force- a mesmerizing performance from Finland.
Review: The Event
A solo show which deconstructs theatre, our lives and how artifice might be presented or might not in a remarkable performance by the man who created it, sold it on and still can be marveled at doing it.
Review: The True Story of the Little Girl who thought she was The Second Coming of Jesus Christ
Every little girl dreams of being special, but Ellie Rose doesn’t just dream – she knows she’s special.
Review: The Rape of Lucrece
The definitive way to experience this troublingly great, disturbingly unresolved poem
Review: Living Newspaper #7
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch a group of young dramatists take on the future
Review: Living Newspaper #6
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch what this does with the future
Review: Living Newspaper #5
Like all the Royal Court’s Living Newspaper series, we need this. Watch.
Review: Outside
As with Inside, Outside not only fits us, they help us to move on, and become in their modest, unassuming and utterly transcendent way, part of how we learn to.
Review: New Moon Monologues April
As we saw in March, don’t be lulled by friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queens of Cups again proves they’re a company to revel with and wait for heart-stopping reveals
Review: Living Newspaper #3 Royal Court Theatre
Hot off Sloane Square a team of writers, actors and creatives twist the news to truth
Review: New Moon Monologues March
Don’t be lulled by the friendly colours and fluffy fonts. Queen of Cups is absolutely a company to watch, and its showcase productions are literally unmissable
Review: Ally Sloper’s Half Holiday
A throwback performance to when Music Hall was King, Queen and Pearly Dreams.
Review: Just Like Giving Blood
Upton’s notches of logic are nudged with brilliance, the actual narrative a granular run-up to an enormous yes.
Review: 15 Heroines: 15 Monologues Adapted from Ovid
Groundbreaking. The smallest producing theatre in the West End through lockdown has become the largest.
Review: A Kiss From Back Home
A solo performance that brings effectively to the stage the soulful disappointment of a lost relationship.
Review: The New Tomorrow
There’s a generosity here, a big hug. Theatre itself affirms the value of life to those who might yet shape it for the better.
Review: MILF
A series of exploratory monologues that really make you think about the value of gender
Review: Isolation
A desperate portrait of the strain of the absence from a mother of her child during the pandemic.
Review: Rebus: The Lockdown Blues
A complex and impressive study of one iconic literary figure dealing with an iconoclastic time in his kitchen.
Review: Fatbaws
A very impressive self filmed and performed allegory of the threat posed by those who try to invade our gardens and rule the roost.
Review: Daddy Drag
Proof that whilst you cannot fit a person into a show, you can truly theatrically lift a lid on his behaviour, the effect he leaves behind and the void that others cannot fill
Review: The Good Dad (A Love Story)
Intricate, fiercely intelligent, this play packs far more force than some twice its length. Sarah Lawrie’s intensity is magnificent.
Review: The Monster and Mary Shelley
A solo celebration of the mind that brought Frankenstein from its fevered edges to realisation on the page
Review: The Drift
An impressive solo show about how integrated Scotland believes it is but shows us the reality of the length it needs to go, in order to achieve that aim.
Review: You’re Good for Nothing…I’ll Milk the Cow Myself
Poignant, meaningful, vibrant and entertaining!
Review: The Readiness Is All: A Solo Hamlet
Inspired, engrossing, creative, imaginative, and well performed!
Review: Get Uncomfortable
Provocative poetic performance, raw, gripping, beautiful, moving and visceral.
Review: Sam Morrison: Hello, Daddy!
Accomplished and fruity comedy from a young gay comedian who’s already mastered stand up.
Review: I Run
A vivid solo performance of a man running furious, powerful and heartbroken into the grief of his dead daughter.
