Review: The Sweet Science of Bruising, Southwark Playhouse
Set during the not-so-distant past of the Victorian era where women did not have the right to higher education and were expected to play an ever-subservient rol...
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Review: Maydays, The Other Place, Stratford-Upon-Avon
Maydays blitzes through more than 30 years of political revolutions, turmoil, demonstrations and dissent. Moving from the Fall of Berlin in the spring of 1945 t...
Review: Hedgehogs and Porcupines, Old Red Lion Theatre
I don’t know if it’s because I’m not a twenty-something in a rocky relationship, or because I’m just not the right type of person, but I couldn’t feel any genui...
Review: Dennis of Penge, Ovalhouse
Dionysus descends from Olympia to manage a chicken shop in Penge. Here, as Dennis (Jorell Coiffic-Kamall), he faces Wendy (Annie Siddons) across the counter. Ch...
Review: Pack of Lies, Menier Chocolate Factory Theatre
Doilies and deception, surveillance in the 60’s, and more cups of tea than the Great British Bake Off. Pack of Lies is a moving play based on a true story, focu...
Review: Pinter Two: The Lover and The Collection, Harold Pinter Theatre
A confession: I am not sure whether I actually like Pinter. The last production I saw - Ian Rickson’s star-studded staging of The Birthday Party earlier this ye...