Review: Buckets, Orange Tree Theatre
Buckets is a play about making the most of time, and dealing with the fact that one day we’re all going to run out of it. What’s great about Adam Barnard’s scri...
Tom Shore
Review: My Champion Heartache, The Yard
The Yard's NOW '15 festival plays a double bill each night, the acts changing with the weeks. The night’s more experienced second act mentors the fledgling firs...
Review: Kingmaker, Arts Theatre
It is Max Newman’s (Alan Cox) finest hour. Despite a flighty political past and dubious tabloid reputation – very consciously modelled on Boris Johnson – he is ...
Review: Closer To Heaven, Union Theatre
We enter straight into the dance floor of a lively gay bar in the year 2000, around about the time that this musical by Jonathan Harvey and the Pet Shop Boys wa...
Review: The Heart of Adrian Lovett, Theatre Delicatessen
There is a moment in The Heart of Adrian Lovett where the actors decide to do away with the fourth wall, pull up a couple of chairs and begin a conversation wit...
Review: Tanztheater Wuppertal Pina Bausch: Auf dem Gebirge, Sadler’s Wells
Choreographed by the late great monolith of contemporary dance, Pina Bausch, Auf dem Gebirge hat man ein Geschrei gehört (On the Mountain a Cry Was Heard) is an...
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.