Review: The Mistress Cycle (From Page To Stage) at the Landor Theatre

The Mistress Cycle (From Page To Stage)

Landor Theatre

Reviewed on Wednesday 5th March 2014

Described as a 'musical tale of sacrifice, destruction and renewal', The Mistress Cycle is the final musical to run as part of Aria Entertainment's season of new musical theatre writing at the Landor Theatre, From Page To Stage. The musical has book and lyrics by Beth Blatt and music by Jenny Giering.

Review: Drunk at the Bridewell Theatre

Drunk
Bridewell Theatre
Reviewed on Friday 7th February 2014

Following its world premiere at the Leicester Curve, Drew McOnie has brought the McOnie Company's inaugural production, Drunk, to the Bridewell Theatre for a four week London season. Described as a 'wickedly delicious cocktail of theatre and dance', Drunk is a theatre-dance revue with music by One Man, Two Guvnors composer Grant Olding.

Dave Willetts to star in world premiere of new musical The Man Inside at the Landor Theatre

It has been announced that Dave Willetts (pictured right) will star in the world premiere of new British musical The Man Inside. The production will open on Thursday 13th March (previews from 12th March) and run until Saturday 29th March 2014 at the Landor Theatre. The Man Inside will also preview at the Cheltenham Everyman Theatre.

The musical is a contemporary re-imagining of Robert Louis Stevenson’s 1886 novella The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde and is described as "provocative, disturbing and unexpected set between two conflicting worlds; reality or imagination, good or evil, victim or madman?"

Review: The White Carnation at the Jermyn Street Theatre

Derek Wright, Bruce Panday, Robert Benfield and Joss Porter

The White Carnation
Jermyn Street Theatre
Reviewed on Friday 7th February 2014

On paper R. C. Sherriff's play The White Carnation, which has transferred to the Jermyn Street from the Finborough Theatre, sounds like another spooky play about Ghosts. However, this could not be further from the truth. Yes - The White Carnation may be about a man who returns to the house he was killed in years later, but it is not R. C. Sherriff's intention to frighten or startle the audience.

Review: Carthage at the Finborough Theatre

Carthage

Finborough Theatre

Reviewed on Thursday 30th January 2014

Tommy Anderson was born in a prison, and he died in one too. Whose fault was it?

Above is a question I am still trying to answer, as I am left reeling from the most riveting play of 2014 so far.

What makes Chris Thompson's play so brilliant is that throughout the majority of the piece  it is impossible to know who to side with. Performed out of sequence, Carthage takes you on the most epic journey, revealing what happened before, during and after Tommy's horrific life. The system was designed to protect children like Tommy, but perhaps in this case it does more harm than good. 

Review: The Play That Goes Wrong at the Old Red Lion Theatre

The Play That Goes Wrong
Old Red Lion Theatre
Reviewed on Thursday 14th March 2013 (Press Night)

The Play That Goes Wrong certainly does go wrong, in the most comical and excellent way. The play has been brilliantly written by three members of the cast: Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields, and this production has been wonderfully directed by Mark Bell. The play is about amateur production of 1920s whodunit ‘Murder at Haversham Manor’that goes horribly wrong.

Review: Kandy Kottage at the Landor Theatre

Kandy Kottage

Landor Theatre

Reviewed on Thursday 14th March 2013

Taylor-Rowan & Hughes have written a fresh new piece of musical theatre with an intriguingly dark twist. Kandy Kottage tells the tail of sweet shop worker Kevin and his quest to make Greta his one true love.