Review: Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
Given its outdated sexual politics, you’d be forgiven for thinking that Seven Brides for Seven Brothers would be an unusually regressive piece for the Regent’s ...
Jemma Anderson
Review: Summer of Love, St. James Theatre
On arrival at the St. James Theatre, I find myself surrounded by adolescent females and wonder whether I might’ve stepped into the wrong place. It turns out tha...
Review: Birdsong, Richmond Theatre
Adapting Sebastian Faulks's epic 305-page novel set in the First World War into a play was never going to be an easy task. However, Rachel Wagstaff has pulled i...
Review: Anonymous Anonymous, The Space
It is rather apt that a show set in a church hall should be played out in The Space – a converted church on the Isle of Dogs. The ability to perform Anonymous A...
Review: Soggy Brass, Southwark Playhouse
Velvet Trumpet, a theatre company based in South London, commits itself to delivering plays that feature the unexamined comedy in everyday life. So it created S...
Review: The One Day of the Year, Finborough Theatre
As part of their GreatWar100 series, the Finborough Theatre has staged the first UK production of Alan Seymour’s The One Day of the Year in 50 years. Dubbed an ...
Jemma Anderson
Jemma is currently studying Drama, Theatre and Performance at Roehampton University. Between studying and reading about theatre, she also watches and reviews as Editor-in-chief of the Drama Department's newspaper, The Call.