3.0★ ★ ★ Skin Jad Adams 02/08/2023 Skin opens with two sisters chatting on stage about Sadie’s cancer, and even laughing about it. Sadie, in her early twenties, has had a melanoma wh...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Merry Wives of Windsor Jad Adams 20/07/2023 There is a story that Shakespeare wrote The Merry Wives of Windsor in response to a request from Elizabeth I. She had laughed at the outrageous antic...
3.0★ ★ ★ Then, Now and Next Jad Adams 29/06/2023 The production of this new musical cuts back and forward in time between scenes of her relationship with two men over 20 years. Alex, played by Alice...
3.0★ ★ ★ Laika Jad Adams 06/06/2023 The ceiling of the theatre is a universe of stars while two musicians produce techno music from flashing decks. Spluttering radio broadcasts let us k...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Village Idiot Jad Adams 21/04/2023 With its fruity language and references to gay sex, trans sex, disabled sex and characters ‘wanking off to Countryfile’, Village Idiot is a sort of an...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ You Bury Me Jad Adams 02/04/2023 As the news cycle churns on we forget the protests of yesteryear, the excitement of a time like the Arab Spring of 2011 when a new spirit of hope grip...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Waldo’s Circus of Magic and Terror Jad Adams 22/03/2023 Waldo’s Circus of Magic and Terror, a marriage of theatre and circus, is set inside a Big Top somewhere in Germany, a place where we watch the actors ...
3.0★ ★ ★ Macbeth Jad Adams 17/03/2023 For a play which is famously bad luck among actors (they aren’t even supposed to speak its name) Flabbergast Theatre show some pluck in taking on this...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Walworth Farce Jad Adams 25/02/2023 The lights go up on a stage where three men are in three rooms side by side. This is a grotty, inner city flat with a 1960s kitchen, cans of lager on...
3.0★ ★ ★ The Play with Speeches Jad Adams 17/02/2023 Pretty much every dramatist has at some time stopped in amazement at the ridiculous nature of what they are doing. They are writing words for people ...