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Review: John Proctor is the Villain, Royal Court
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (246+ words) Rating Excellent The #MeToo movement propels questions into Arthur Miller's classic, told through the lens of American high schoolers. The play explores how different teenagers are able to handle this new wave of feminism from a distance as a spectator,…...
Review: Daisy Doris May: Big Night Out, Soho Theatre
2+ day, 8+ hour ago (160+ words) Well-executed character comedy, even if it's not quite pushing the form just yet. This show is everything you would imagine of character comedy: one performer, three big cartoonish personas, bumping She's also joined by her "party pouch" " her baby bump…...
Review: Carmilla, The Space
3+ day, 2+ hour ago (263+ words) Rating OK! When is an opera not an opera? When it's spoken word, with a live score that dominates rather that complements the story to the point of distraction. Carmilla is the story of Laura (Charmaine Cheong), who becomes infatuated…...
Review: Living, Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse
1+ week, 6+ day ago (742+ words) Joanne is quite proud of being Everything Theatre's first ever Yorkshire reviewer. Like most reviewers, she spends lots of her spare time in the theatre, both in the audience and on stage, watching anything from a Shakespeare play to a…...
Review: The Island Of Moor, The Hope Theatre
5+ day, 4+ hour ago (697+ words) Michael is a lifelong Londoner who enjoys using his free time to explore all the fantastic and madcap sights that London has to offer. This often involves the arts and is occasionally something he stumbles across by complete accident. Having…...
Review: Consumed, Park Theatre
5+ day, 11+ hour ago (123+ words) Rating Good Family ties and divisions in the shadow of the Troubles. "That wasn't an Irish play, that was a Protestant play." The evening unfolds entirely in Eileen's kitchen in Bangor, and Lily Arnold's set design shows us a"much…...
Review: Squidge, Riverside Studios
1+ week, 5+ hour ago (110+ words) Review: Squidge, Riverside Studios'Everything Theatre Rating Excellent! Squidge is a sharp, darkly funny and emotionally astute one-woman-show that captures the mutual, transformative power of care and connection in unlikely places. That said, Squidge is a thoughtful, moving yet deeply funny…...
Review: Manic Street Creature, Kiln Theatre
3+ week, 1+ day ago (430+ words) Rating Good This virtuoso performance of gig theatre impresses technically, but the amplification of trauma on such a broad canvas becomes tiring. Manic Street Creature by Maimuna Memon is a wonderfully adventurous piece of gig theatre that challenges and reshapes…...
Review: That Song from Rocky Horror (Toucha Toucha Touch Me), Camden People’s Theatre
1+ week, 4+ day ago (757+ words) Cerys is a writer, director and producer from South Wales. In typical theatre kid fashion, her obsession started with musicals; seeing Oliver on the West End at age 10 changed her little life. She later went onto study Drama and Theatre…...
Review: That’s Not My Name, Pleasance Theatre
1+ week, 4+ day ago (164+ words) Rating Good! A chaotic and fearless solo show that confronts psychiatry as it drags its audience into madness. When I was 19, in an attempt to stabilise some volatile emotions, a doctor added two disorders to my GP notes, each followed…...