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THEATRE REVIEW | The Band
Whoever signed off on this mess should be really ashamed of themselves. Robbie, Howard, Gary and Mark – you listening?
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THEATRE REVIEW | Venus In Fur, Theatre Royal Haymarket
★★★ | Venus In Fur, Theatre Royal Haymarket A playwright/director bemoans the lack of female acting talent after a long day auditioning for the female lead in his new play. In walks Vanda, a ditzy and frenetic actress who’s turned up late but is determined that she’s going to audition for the part whether he wants […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | McQueen, Theatre Royal, Haymarket, London
Crass yob or fashion god? Both, actually. All bile, venom and spunk, Alexander McQueen was a mutant oik messiah, a sartorial serial-killer maniacally slashing mediocrity into mouth-watering magnificence. ★★★★ But that’s only when his brutally bi-polar, chemsex-twisted muse flew, of course, and new play McQueen – where he’s called Lee, his preferred name throughout – […]
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THEATRE REVIEW | Daytona, Theatre Royal Haymarket
★★★ | Daytona, Theatre Royal Haymarket In a recent interview, Maureen Lipman said that this is ‘unquestionably the best role’ of her career and she’s not wrong. Lipman is jaw-droppingly stunning in the strictly limited season of Daytona at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Daytona is an intimate 3-hander show which tells a story of missed […]