THEATRE REVIEW | Persona
INSISTENCE IS FUTILE! -By- Fraulein Sasha Selavie As Star Trek’s Borg Queen, Alice Krige was instantly, shockingly unearthly, an stunning visual heart-attack, as unlikely as an 8-foot drag queen twerking […]
Theatre Review | Rough Crossing – National Tour
★★☆☆☆ | Rough Crossing As a theatre company board a cruise ship to cross the Atlantic to New York for the premier of their new piece, it’s not just the […]
Theatre Review | The Messiah – National Tour and West End
Sadly short on laughs, the handful of jokes stretch thinly over the show’s running time and even some forced audience participation can’t conjure up enough Christmas sparkle to elevate the show to a “must see”.
THEATRE REVIEW | Jubilee, Lyric Theatre Hammersmith
★★☆☆☆ | Jubilee Ever seen Jubilee? The visionary, anarchic mash-up of gay sex, brutal anarchy and transcendent mysticism? If not, load up the fresh, newly-released blu-ray and gorge on Jarman’s genius […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Harold and Maude, Charing Cross Theatre
★★☆☆☆ | Harold and Maude If you’ve never seen the 1971 cult classic film ‘Harold and Maude’ then you’ve missed out. Poignant, darkly humorous and with a lilting soundtrack by […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Quartet – National Tour
★★☆☆☆ | Quartet – National Tour Cecily, Wilfred and Reggie are three ageing opera singers, happily spending their twilight years in a retirement home for ageing artists, but their days […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Strangers on a Train, Sheffield Lyceum
Strangers on a Train | ★★☆☆☆ During a chance encounter on a whiskey-soaked train journey, two strangers, Guy Haines, a respected architect and Charles Bruno, a drunken playboy, jokingly plot […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Le Grand Mort, Trafalgar Studios
★★ | Le Grand Mort Acclaimed musical theatre writer Stephen Clark, who died last year, penned this two-hander play as a vehicle for uber camp legend Julian Clary. The play […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Twilight Song, Park Theatre, London
★★ | Twilight Song You know a show doesn’t make much sense, when, after seeing it, you and your friends don’t agree on what you’ve all just seen. To say […]
THEATRE REVIEW | Dr Frankenstein – National Tour
★★ | Dr Frankenstein – National Tour In a reimagining of the classic tale, Dr Victoria Frankenstein shuns her family as she relentlessly pursues her quest for knowledge and in […]
THEATRE REVIEW | La Ronde
★★ | La Ronde Arthur Schnitzler’s turn of the century play ‘La Ronde’ is a frequently performed and adapted classic, partly because it’s an intriguing concept and also often because […]