Reviews Archive
Original Death Rabbit by Rose Heiney - Jermyn Street Theatre, London 2** William Russell
The perils of becoming an internet sensation are revealed in this baffling monologue devised for radio by Rose Heiney. It may have sounded better there as a piece of radio drama but it is not the stuff of the stage. Just as what happens in Vegas should stay there so too it should be for Radio Four.
Aspects of Love - Southwark Playhouse, London - 3*** William Russell
Famously lampooned by Forbidden Broadway as I Sleep with Everyone, the leading ballad, Love Changes Everything is apparently Lloyd Webber's most successful song. The show is one in which the sexual roundabout involving some far from loveable people gets tedious although director Jonathon O'Boyle does his best with this production which originated at the Hope Mill Theatre Manchester last year.
Franz Kafka - Apparatus by Ross Dinwiddy. White Bear Theatre, Kennington. 3*** William Russell
Black, bleak tale of madness and love set in a penal colony out of control which is provoking and well done by all involved.
The Dame by Katie Duncan - Park 90, London N4 3JP. 4 **** William Russell
The smell of the greasepaint and the roar of the crowd are there in this spellbinding monologue delivered with skill and pathos by Peter Duncan as an ageing comic, star of panto and summer show, who has seen better days.
Time Is Love/Tiempo Es Amor by Che Walker - 3*** Finborough Theatre, London - William Russell
Dazzlingly performed, staged and directed but uninvolving play about low life in LA.
Birmingham Rep's adaptation of The Snowman is now 25 years old. Rod Dungate takes a look at its stage origins.
A quick look at 25 years of The Snowman on stage
Sweat by Lynn Nottage, Donmar Warehouse, London 4**** William Russell
Martha Plimpton's performance is one not to miss - the Donmar has ended 2018 with one of the best plays of the year.
Caroline or Change, the Playhouse, London 4**** William Russell
An enthralling evening with at its heart a superb performance by Sharon D Clarke.
Invitation to the Dance - Sadler's Wells 2019
Advance notice - the BalletBoyz next production
Nice Work if You Can Get it by George & Ira Gershwin, Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London. 4**** William Russell
Superbly danced and choreographed , gorgeously silly musical which delivers value for money in every respect.
Cinderella - by Sally Cookson & Adam Peck. The Brockley Jack Studio. 4 **** William Russell
A pantomime for all ages which captures the wonderful, wicked world of the Brothers Grimm
The Cane by Mark Ravenhill, Royal Court, London 3*** William Russell
Compelling and splendidly performed affair about the snowflake generation's attitude to past abuses
The Merry Wives of Windsor, Barbican, London 4**** William Russell
Dialektikon, Park 90, Finsbury Park N4 3JP to 29 December. 3 *** William Russell
A story of a world heading to destruction and a girl's journey to the underworld.
Operation Ouch: Apollo Theatre, Shaftesbury Avenue, London 4**** William Russell
Doctors playing doctors - keeping children fascinated
Robin Hood, Peckham Theatre London, 3***: William Russell
Wittily politically correct
ROBIN HOOD - the arrow of Destiny
Robin Hood - the Arrow of Destiny3*** Goings on in thegreenwood
The Band, Haymarket London, 3***: William Russell
A boy band extravaganza
Hole, Jerwood London, 3***: William Russell
Women on the warpath
Hot Gay Time Machine, Trafalgar Studios, London, 3***: William Russell
Funny and fizzing