Review: New Dickensian, Jermyn Street Theatre
When the box office assistant tells you that the show you’ve been sent to review is actually a rehearsed reading, I hope I’m not the only theatre fanboy to hope...
Tom Shore
Review: End Games, Puppet Theatre Barge
The Puppet Theatre Barge, currently on a summer tour of the Thames but usually found in Little Venice, was established in the late 1970s with the intention of p...
Review: Western Society, Queen Elizabeth Hall
We begin at 1,000,000 BC, with a set of scattered household furniture and timer starting at 1,000,000 projected onto the back wall. This begins to drop through ...
Review: Splendour, Donmar Warehouse
As a play and as a performance there are elements of Splendour that I have not seen bettered this year. At the curtain call, I found myself with a reflex-like c...
Review: We Know Where You Live, Finborough Theatre
Having just been put through the grind of flat hunting myself, Ross Hatt’s skit as the zealous estate agent in We Know Where You Live’s first scene is a real tr...
Review: Quiet Violence, The Roundhouse
Entering the cavernous studio space within The Roundhouse, I didn’t quite notice Sophie Rose at first – talking easily with audience members in a front row of s...
Tom Shore
Tom studied English at university, and now works as a school teacher. On the lookout for unexpected and thoughtful theatre, he is keen to reach to all corners of the arts world to find something to tell his students about.