Trade. The Pleasance Theatre.
It is the aftermath of the Bosnian war. Jana (Katarina Novkovic) works in her family’s small-town grocery store selling potatoes and [...]
Grey Widow. VAULT Festival.
Writer and comedienne Callum Tilbury names their drag creation Lady Aria Grey. But it is a demonic scarlet colour that dominates [...]
The Messiah Complex. VAULT Festival.
A culture which bans beliefs that cannot be scientifically proven might not sound like the worst imaginable dystopia. It is tempting [...]
The Way Old Friends Do. Park Theatre.
There comes a time in the life of even the most erudite devotees of highbrow music when they just give up [...]
Ten Days. Space Theatre.
Ten Days That Shook the World, American journalist John Reed’s first-hand account of the 1917 Russian October Revolution, is one of [...]
Kitty Queen of the Washhouse. King’s Head Theatre.
Catherine “Kitty” Wilkinson (Samantha Alton), the eponymous protagonist of John Maguire’s solidly watchable bioplay Kitty: Queen of the Washhouse appears at [...]
Dry Season. Canada Water Theatre.
Kat Lyons’ spoken word theatre show Dry Season is a busy concoction of physical theatre, poetry, PowerPoint slides, and animation that [...]
Rat King. VAULT Festival
Kelly (Georgina Tack) is a difficult 16-year-old with mental health issues, a tricky relationship with her ex-military dad, and a yearning [...]
Five Years With The White Man. VAULT Festival.
Eloki Obi and Saul Boyer’s single-hander Five Years with the White Man is well worth a look. Part bioplay and part [...]
Trash Salad. VAULT Festival
Trigger warnings do not often include references to salad vegetables. However, here is one for those likely to be offended at [...]
The Blue Whale. The Space.
Lewis (Sam Bush), the hapless protagonist of Julian Felice’s mischievous 60-minute comedy thriller, The Blue Whale, is a misogynistic loser. Desperate [...]
This Bitter Earth. White Bear Theatre.
African American Jesse (a beautifully layered turn by Martin Edwards) is a hard-up budding writer from the Deep South with a [...]
Women, Beware The Devil. Almeida Theatre.
England, 1640. The nation, awash with paranoia over the apparent presence of devilry and witchcraft in every corner, stands on the [...]
Akedah. Hampstead Theatre.
Office cleaner with mental health issues Gill (Amy Molloy) receives a mysterious text message from estranged sister Kelly (Ruby Campbell), 15 [...]
One Who Wants To Cross. Finborough Theatre.
Marc-Emmanuel Soriano’s moving and deeply affecting story of migrants, One Who Wants To Cross, won multiple awards in the writer’s native [...]
Chekhov’s Dildo. The Hope Theatre
Russian playwright and author Anton Chekhov once said “One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn’t [...]
Ballerina. The VAULT Festival.
Set in an unnamed country in Francophone Africa, Ballerina sees British diplomat Colin Clutterbuck (Dominique Izabella Little) arrested by the local [...]
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons. Harold Pinter Theatre.
Sam Steiner’s debut two-hander Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons premiered back in 2015 and since then has enjoyed several mostly well-received [...]
Jason. VAULT Festival.
One dark and cold evening in December 1966, film maker Shirley Clarke and her then partner, the actor Carl Lee, welcome [...]
All Falls Down. VAULT Festival.
All Falls Down, currently playing inside a dark and damp shipping container at the VAULT festival, sees creator and performer Joe [...]
Charlie and Stan. Wilton’s Music Hall.
Following a well-received run in 2020 and a regional revival in 2021, acclaimed theatre company Told by an Idiot’s gloriously inventive [...]
We Didn’t Come To Hell For The Croissants. Riverside Studios.
We Didn't Come To Hell For The Croissants sees South African performer Jemma Kahn act as a kind of modern day [...]
Mr Sister. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
Over recent months comedy duo and sororal soulmates Brooke Jones and Holly Kellingray have garnered some 40,000 followers and 1.3 million [...]
Irrelevant. Seven Dials Playhouse.
Debbie Chazen is utterly scintillating as a bitter pill-popping alcoholic casting agent in Keith Merrill’s tribute to Hollywood and Hedda Gabler. [...]