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
Review: Love Me to Death, St Saviour’s Church
Intermission Youth Theatre is, by its own admission, no ordinary theatre company. Originally founded by an actor-turned-minister in 2001, its mission is to brin...
Review: Method in Madness, Greenwich Theatre
Method in Madness, on for a short run at the Greenwich Theatre, is part period piece, part physical theatre and part Shakespearean drama that is a joy to watch....
Review: Can you hear me running?, Pleasance Theatre
What are we without a voice? This is the central question of Can you hear me running?, a charming and funny, but also oddly inscrutable, show playing this month...
Review: No’s Knife, Old Vic
In a way you know what you get with Beckett. The sparse, unsentimental text; the ghostly, post-apocalyptic staging. But a new performance or, even more exciting...
Review: Plastic Figurines, New Diorama Theatre
Plays about family dynamics are hard to get right. Often they are stuffed with melodrama and unfold like an episode of Coronation Street, or they are lengthy, p...
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.