Reviwer's Rating MIMMA: a Musical of War and Friendship Julie Peakman 02/03/2022My first surprise was that this is not the usual musical theatre I am used to, but more of an...
Reviewer's Rating Proud Tim Hochstrasser 01/03/2022‘Proud’ is adapted by Bren Gosling from his novel depicting the interactions between three characters in contemporary London. Roland is...
Reviewer's Rating The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten Tim Hochstrasser 25/02/2022I was really excited to see The Collaboration for completely selfish reasons. In another life, I stage-managed a beautiful show...
Reviewer's Rating Urinetown Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022This musical is unusual in at least two respects: it was both cancelled and then remade by 9/11, and it...
Reviewer's rating The Cunning Little Vixen Teddy Hempstead 21/02/2022Since its first performance, in 1924, Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen has enjoyed the kind of philosophical tug-of-war usually reserved...
Reviewer's Rating The Ballad of Maria Marten Richard Voyce 18/02/2022On Friday 18th May, 1827, Maria Marten left the family home in Polstead, Suffolk, that she shared with her father...
Reviewer's rating The Forest Tim Hochstrasser 17/02/2022This is one of those plays where it does help to read the interviews in the programme. Even more than...
Reviewer's Rating Steve: a story about modern love versus the fairytale Tim Hochstrasser 16/02/2022The Actor’s Centre, closed for some time now, reopened its doors in a blustery February renamed and rebranded as the...
Reviewer's rating The Addams Family Richard McKee 16/02/2022The 1960s were a great era for Gothic horror. We had Roger Corman in America, filming the stories of Edgar...
Reviewer's Rating The Chairs Tim Hochstrasser 12/02/2022Less well known than ‘The Bald Primadonna’ and ‘The Lesson’, this play is perhaps the most daring and original of...
