Review: Drift Shop Highlights, The White Bear Theatre
Drift Theatre, a kind of talent incubator formed in 2016 by Laura Jane Ayres, Jess McKenna, Emma Wilkinson and Laura Sedgwick, certainly seems to have had a suc...
James Bell
Review: Balancing Acts, Camden People’s Theatre
Balancing Acts, a subtle yet powerful piece of new writing from the Kaleido Film Collective and Feral Foxy Ladies, is part video installation, part physical the...
Review: Once in a Lifetime, Young Vic
The era of silent cinema will seem to many as remote as the last days of the Roman Empire. It is difficult, therefore, to imagine the revolution the “talkies” w...
Review: After October, Finborough Theatre
There’s a moment in After October, a restaging of a 1936 Rodney Ackland play, that made the critics in the audience collectively draw breath. “By what right” go...
Review: Boys, Lost Theatre
Boys is a sprawling behemoth of a play. Although based around a small group of friends in modern day Edinburgh, it spans the full gamut of emotions the unsettle...
Review: Rumpy Pumpy, Union Theatre
Perhaps expecting a musical to be subtle is like expecting a cow to understand the finer points of quantum mechanics. But even so, while Rumpy Pumpy, a piece of...
James Bell
James is a market researcher by day and an aspiring critic and reviewer by night. Having studied modern languages he is keen to see as much theatre and travel as widely as possible.