The Benefits of Disabled Sex. King’s Head Theatre.
The title of Sonny Howes’ touching and very funny mashup of monologue, verse, and a song, The Benefits of Disabled Sex, [...]
The Clinic. Almeida Theatre.
The Clinic, Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s much anticipated new dark comedy drama at the Almeida Theatre, has a favourable enough central conceit. Place [...]
And. The Place.
Charlotte Mclean’s one-woman show And draws together music, dance, poetry, and prose into an intimate, powerful, and deeply affecting 45 minutes [...]
Peaceophobia, Here East
Peaceophobia, currently running at Stratford’s Queen Elizabeth Olympic Car Park as part of The Greenwich + Docklands International Festival, is an [...]
Rehab The Musical. Playground Theatre.
It is difficult to know what to expect from a show with a title like Rehab The Musical. Perhaps a satirical [...]
Help! We Are Still Alive. Seven Dials Playhouse.
Imogen Palmer and Tim Gilvin’s kind-hearted musical two-hander Help! We Are Still Alive gives us a modest and familiar scenario and [...]
Brawn. Kings Head Theatre.
Christopher Wollaton’s Brawn has something to say about the psychology of male body dysmorphia, but as a story it lacks substance. [...]
Horizons : A 21st Century Space Odyssey. The O2.
31 August 2022 Early on in Professor Brian Cox’s Horizons: A 21st Century Space Odyssey, co-host Robin Ince poses one of [...]
Bad Jews. Arts Theatre.
Joshua Harmon's 2012 comedy Bad Jews gets a decent revival at The Arts aided by a cracking performance from Rosie Yadid. [...]
Frydays. Camden People’s Theatre.
25 August 2022 On paper, an absurdist allegorical urban fairy tale, set to music and based partly in a fish and [...]
Defective Inspector. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
24 August 2022 Harrison Cole’s uninspiring spoof detective comedy, Defective Inspector had an outing at the Brighton Fringe in spring 2019 [...]
Delusions and Grandeur. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
21 August 2022 How many opportunities are there in life to see a one-woman clown cello show? Not numerous perhaps, but [...]
Unstitching. Etcetera Theatre.
23 August 2022 Consider for a moment the components from which Ruby Shrimpton has engineered her touching, warm, and funny one-woman [...]
Some Boy You Are. The Cockpit Theatre.
19 August 2022 It is the long, hot summer of 2017. Hopes are high. England’s new football manager is settling in. [...]
Mediocre White Male. King’s Head Theatre.
17 August 2022 “Change is a thief” says the nameless protagonist in Will Close and Joe Von Malachowski’s shrewdly put together [...]
Keep It Down. The Hope Theatre.
16 August 2022 On the surface, Daisy, the brash protagonist in Emma Oldfield’s absorbing comedy monologue, Keeping it Down, has a [...]
Dreamworld. Camden People’s Theatre.
12 August 2022 The publicity material for Amelia Gann’s agreeable one-woman show, Dreamworld, does not reveal how she conceived the idea [...]
Two Ukrainian Plays. Finborough Theatre.
11 August 2022 The Finborough Theatre’s double bill, Two Ukrainian Plays, features short works by two of that troubled country’s leading [...]
Billy Parva: A True Story. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
9 August 2022 Writer and Performer Michael Mulqueen has had a neat piece of serendipity in finding a North London pub [...]
The Wasp. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
5 August 2022 Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s dark comedy thriller The Wasp had sell-out runs at both Hampstead Theatre and Trafalgar Studios [...]
Now: Shame. Drayton Arms Theatre.
According to the fundraiser page for Now: Shame, this is a sketch show about two feudal peasants on their way to [...]
Permanent Marker. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Permanent Marker is a deeply affecting, beautifully written and exquisitely performed 60-minute monologue about women's experiences of, reactions to, and repair [...]
Monster. Park Theatre.
Abigail Hood’s dark, troubling Monster is difficult to watch and relies on some unlikely narrative conceits, but the endeavour pays off. [...]
Lucinda Spragg: An Evening With. Rosemary Branch Theatre.
29 July 2022 Lucinda Spragg, the monstrous alt-right comedy character created by talented actor Grace Millie, has a simple message: “It’s [...]