With a title like Boys in the Buff, and musical numbers with titles such as ‘Size Doesn’t Matter’, ‘We Can Strip For You!’ and ‘My Foreskin And Me’, what was I to expect? This wasn’t exactly going to be a Greek tragedy. But, interestingly, this production isn’t all about singing and dancing and having a […]
Queen Anne at Theatre Royal Haymarket Review
Queen Anne, a new play from Helen Edmundson tells the story of the relationship between the Queen and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough from the time Anne becomes Queen on the death of William III in 1702 to the point when that relationship ends. It encompasses Anne’s political alliance with the Speaker of the Commons, […]
King Kong is a ‘superb and highly entertaining’ production
The great ape has fascinated the world for years. From his first appearance on film in 1933 – complete with Fay Wray’s screaming – through to the Dino De Laurentiis version which substituted the World Trade Centre for the Empire State Building, and the subsequent versions, the primate resident of Skull Island has held a […]
The View From Nowhere at Park Theatre – Review
Every day the news is full of things we should and shouldn’t do to stave off cancer, every decision we make seems to have some huge bearing on whether or not we end up suffering from this dreadful disease. So this play asks a simple question, if we are encouraged to control what we do […]
House of America at the Brockley Jack Theatre – Review
Ever read a book and dream of living the story contained within? Yep, we all have really. For most of us, this is a simple fantasy that takes us out of ourselves for an hour or so, then back to reality we go. However, for some people, real life may be just so bad that […]