‘Can you imagine popping down to your GP to get fingered?’ And that’s the sort of shock-factor which Buzz presents. Told via the unpolished, far-from-perfect mediums of musical theatre, Buzz practically parodies the styles and conventions to present this hilarious, random and, at the heart of it all, educational piece of female empowerment, by teaching…
Jonathon Crewe’s Toy Soldier opens with the image of a man tied up, held captive, as the sound of Bashir Handi’s torturing by Donna Britten (Bianca Beckles-Rose) echoes through the studio of the Brockley Jack Theatre. The scene is set. Handi, an Iraqi civilian, has been tortured and murdered, and Britten is facing a court sentencing to bring…
Stereotypes can make us cringe. We can watch an actor adopting the clichéd idiosyncrasies of a “type” and then quiver and wince at the embarrassment of them trying to make it look natural (or not as the case may be). However, there are times when caricatures can be used effectively, not so much for comical…
What would Henry VIII be without the women who made him? Set in King Henry VIII’s personal purgatory, Ladies in Waiting takes a deeper delve into the relationships between this infamous ruler and his six wives. As Henry (James Cougar Canfield, also playwright) faces each of his wives one at a time, we are exposed to the deeper…