Skin. Jack Studio Theatre.
Writer and director Peter Todd’s Skin opens to the sound of soft country guitar. Two twenty-something sisters, Sadie, and Clara are [...]
You’re Alright. Camden People’s Theatre.
Twenty-something Charlie is not having a good day. Let go from her job she looks forward to an evening “getting steaming” [...]
Why I Stuck a Flare Up My Arse For England. Old Red Lion Theatre.
It is July 2021. The Euros’ final between England and Italy is about to kick off. Ardent football fan-turned hooligan Billy [...]
Boy Out The City. Blue Elephant Theatre.
Unassuming as he obviously is, writer and performer Declan Bennett tells us at the outset of his autobiographical single-hander, Boy Out [...]
1000 Ways The World Will End And How It Starts Again. Kings Head Theatre.
The collapse of a relationship can sometimes feel like the end of the world. As star-crossed lovers across the centuries have [...]
Pretty Witty Nell. Barons Court Theatre.
Aside perhaps from parts of Mike Bartlett’s recent faux-Restoration comedy Scandaltown, writer and director Ryan J-W Smith seems to have pretty [...]
If This Isn’t Eden Where the Hell Am I? White Bear Theatre.
Writer and director Emily Foxton’s ambitious and darkly comic second play If This Isn't Eden Where the Hell Am I? is [...]
Ghost Light. Hope Theatre.
One gets the impression from Ghost Light that writer Molly O’Gorman spent some of her formative years glued to the box [...]
Looking For Giants. Camden Peoples Theatre.
Cesca Echlin’s exceptional debut play, Looking For Giants, is a provocative and disturbing psychological study of a mind imprisoned within a [...]
Bad Ladz. New Wimbledon Theatre.
Writer and actor Niall Ransome’s well received 2017 debut play FCUK’D was a serious take on the decline of Britain’s welfare [...]
Universal. Omnibus Theatre.
Theatre company Unshaded Arts make a welcome return to Clapham’s Omnibus Theatre for a solid and likeable second series of 15-minute [...]
Sima. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Anxious, depressed, and isolated university student Jess lives alone in her mum’s plush flat overlooking the Firth of Forth. There is [...]
GuyMart. Kings Head Theatre.
George Lacey’s spoof comedy musical GuyMart, currently running as part of the MT Pride Lab at the King’s Head Theatre, relocates [...]
Duck. Arcola Theatre.
Duck, playwright and producer maatin’s coming-of-age comedy-drama about the burgeoning cultural consciousness of a cricket-crazy British Indian adolescent, arrives with serendipitous [...]
Spy For Spy. Riverside Studios.
Kieron Barry’s two-hander comedy romance Spy For Spy is, the show blurb tells us, “an attempt to create a play which [...]
Shakesqueer. Etcetera Theatre.
In the Elizabethan period queer sex was mostly taboo. Close and intense friendships on the other hand were highly valued. It [...]
Blueprints. The Pleasance Theatre.
“This feels like an episode of Black Mirror” says Faith, the co-protagonist of Ashlee Elizabeth-Lolo’s reflective two-hander, Blueprints. She is right. [...]
Twelfth Night. Shakespeare In The Squares.
Following last year’s well-received Tempest, touring theatre company Shakespeare In The Squares returns to London this summer, with an appealing production [...]
Curating. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Goofy twenty-something Freya sells insurance in a London call centre but has dreams of becoming a contemporary impressionist painter. Sadly, her [...]
Dedication. Marylebone Theatre.
Writer, actor, and film-maker Roger Peltzman describes his intensely moving piece of storytelling, Dedication, as a “one-person show”. In fact, aside [...]
Groundhog Day. The Old Vic.
It is Groundhog Day at the Old Vic. No, not yet another revival of A Christmas Carol – that delight comes [...]
A Critical Stage. Tabard Theatre.
The opening of Gareth Armstrong’s A Critical Stage finds the show’s protagonist, theatre critic Jimmy, gagged, bound hand and foot, slumped [...]
The Shape Of Things. Park Theatre.
“It isn’t art if you don’t have something to say” yells writer Neil LaBute’s justifiably irate protagonist Adam towards the end [...]
Rose. Ambassadors Theatre.
Rose, the eponymous protagonist of Martin Sherman’s haunting, epoch-spanning monologue is sitting shiva. It is not clear until the play closes [...]