Reviews

It’s hard to disagree with George Bernard Shaw’s assessment that As You Like It is one of Shakespeare’s weaker works. The play feels cobbled together, especially in the second half, with scenes that barely hang together and characters whose role and purpose is unclear. Above all, it seems to have been written solely as a crowd … Read moreAs You Like It – Royal Shakespeare Company – The Barbican Theatre

There’s a moment when you know, isn’t there? That, however inconvenient, you’ve fallen in love. I think I feel a bit this way about Steven Kunis’ production of Afterglow. When Josh and Alex invite Darius into their bed, they think they’re just having a bit of fun. Fun for the theatregoer, too, as the three … Read moreReview of Afterglow at Waterloo East Theatre

A forerunner of Blackadder, Up Pompeii! was a BBC television series, broadcast between 1969 and 1970. The writers were Talbot Rothwell of Carry On fame and his less well-known partner Sid Colin. Written for its star, Frankie Howerd, and packed with his trademark camp innuendo and double entendres as well as what would once have been … Read moreUp Pompeii – An Audio Revival at the Shaw Theatre

This was my first time at the new Union Theatre having been entranced over the years by the charmingly quaint, dark, dusty, musty railway arch over the road that seemed to have a kind of subliminal sign saying You Are Now Entering Hades – though the quality of theatre there was always of the highest … Read moreReview of Gentlemen Prefer Blondes at the Union Theatre

The off-Broadway musical Brooklyn has taken sixteen years to reach the UK. The programme (essential reading!) tells the audience that, using the time-honoured ‘play-within-a-play’ structure, the show focuses on five homeless people who use the space under Brooklyn Bridge to stage their story about a Parisian orphan singer, who just happens to be called Brooklyn. … Read moreReview of Brooklyn The Musical at Greenwich Theatre