It’s Christmas! The season of cheer, alcohol, food and Christmas shows. If panto doesn’t float your boat, there’s a wide range of different types of shows available, but if you want to have a fantastic evening, you should go to see Christina Bianco’s show O Come All Ye Divas at the Charing Cross Theatre. Christina…
Gods and Monsters is an interesting beast, no pun intended. It’s based on the novel Father of Frankenstein by Christopher bram, although most viewers will be more familiar with the movie starring Ian McKellen, which came out in 1998. The story in all its iterations is a semi-fictionalised account of the last days of James…
Twelve Angry Men is a play by Reginald Rose, written in the 1950s as a teleplay and most well known by its 1957 movie adaptation starring Henry Fonda. The entirety of the play takes place in one room, where the 12 jurors are attempting to decide on a verdict for a 16 year old boy…
Monsters, Mavericks, Mothers is the title of this years’ DYSPLA festival, which celebrates works by dyslexic artists. From the moment you enter Camden Peoples Theatre, it’s unlike your usual theatre experience. You get given an envelope with cards along with your ticket, and I must have looked very confused, as one of the organisers quickly…
The Pajama Men is a comedy duo comprised of Shenoah Allen and Mark Chavez. The two met in high school in Albuquerque, New Mexico while auditioning for an improv team and have been developing their own special brand of comedy ever since. This show, Just The Two of Each of Us has already thrilled audiences at…
The Living Room tells the story of a young Catholic woman who after her mother’s death goes to live with her elderly family members. The story starts with the arrival of Rose and Michael, the executor of her mother’s will who is a married man in his 40s. It becomes apparent immediately that the two…
Great Expectations, now playing at the Vaudeville Theatre, is based on the novel by Charles Dickens, a work that has seen many adaptations on the big and small screen. The story is played out on one set, a decaying room filled with cobwebs and dust, with parts of the wall fallen off to make an…
War Horse is one of those theatrical pieces you hear of and think can’t deliver a show to the level of hype that inevitably follows after all the success of the West End show, the Tony winning Broadway production and the motion picture adaptation by Stephen Spielberg. And with a plot like this, about the…