This is the age of miracles.

The Grinning Man – Trafalgar Studios

Yesterday I went to see The Grinning Man at Trafalgar Studios, which has transferred to London from the Bristol Old Vic. The Grinning Man is a new macabre musical, based on Victor Hugo’s The Man Who Laughs. I don’t know quite where to begin with this. From the beginning I was dubious, however, the general aesthetic of the musical drew me in. The aesthetic, having this dark, circus, freak show…

London Student Drama Festival- The Woman’s March.

I was lucky enough to see The Woman’s March at the Pleasance theatre as part of the LSDF semi-finals. The Woman’s march, written and directed by Carys Hughes, is a series of monologues that depict different voices found at the Woman’s March in London. The show for me was very real and genuine. The characters were beautifully formed, and people I would expect to meet on the street, or in the…

I can tell you just about everything to do with this play, apart from what it was about or what happened. A quirky, somewhat eerie, production enabled by Annie Baker’s beautiful, but long script.

Last night I went to see John by Annie Baker in the Dorfman Theatre. A space in the National, that I barely knew existed, let alone ever visited before. Annie Baker is a Pulitzer Prize winning playwright, notably for her play The Flick. I can tell you just about everything to do with this play, apart from what it was about or what happened. John follows a dysfunctional couple and their stay at an…

Julius Caesar – Bridge Theatre

I had the absolute pleasure of attending the press night of Julius Caesar at the Bridge Theatre amongst the powerful and elite members of the theatrical community. This new adaptation of Shakespeare’s play starring Ben Wishaw, Michelle Fairley, David Morrissey, and David Calder, was more relevant than ever with our current political climate. That is near impossible to avoid at the moment,…

Brothers Size – Young Vic.

My first thought as I sit down to write this review, is that I wrote a ton of shit. My notebook is a mess. The one that draws my eye the most is “This is my bag”. I wrote that about halfway through the performance, judging by the scrawling on the paper. The conventional narrative, fused with physical theatre, music and performance art is the theatre I want to see the most. The moments that I…

*Warning: This is a long one. Apologies in advance*  I finally got to see Hamilton on Friday night at the Victoria Palace Theatre. I have refrained from writing anything on the show as of yet, if you know me at all, or ever read this blog before; I can barely go a week without mentioning Hamilton or Lin Manuel Miranda. It was very special for me to see the show, and I was somewhat overwhelmed…

‘SpongeBob Squarepants has reached Broadway… What a new low…. ‘ is what you might be saying right now, and rightly so. I was thinking it when I first heard. However, and despite my reservations, it was a surprisingly relevant and good piece of theatre, which worked because it wasn’t trying to have artistic integrity. As you can imagine, the plot lacks imagination and substance, however an…

Top shows of 2017. Happy New Year! What better way to reflect on the past year than in theatre, so with much further ado, here are my top shows that I saw in 2017. I usually do them in order, however I saw so many shows this year, that the best I could do was rattle it down to my equally top five. Sweeney Todd at the Barrow Street Theatre I saw this a couple of weeks ago, just before I left New…

Yesterday I went to see Once in this Island at the Circle in the square Theatre. Once on this Island is a broadway revival,   that brings culture, life and passion to the New York stage. It explores the importance of storytelling, telling the audience, and a little girl, who was scared, the story of an island where the rich and poor are divided, and how the Gods remove the divide through the…