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5-star Buzz: A New Musical at the Drayton Arms – Review

‘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…

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Review of Toy Soldier at The Brockley Jack Theatre

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…

Ladies in Waiting at the Bread and Roses Theatre
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Ladies in Waiting at the Bread and Roses Theatre

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…