Nail Polish. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
Composed of current and recent University Of Greenwich drama undergraduates, collaborative theatre company Fruity Theatre aims to devise shows that “celebrate [...]
We Are Monsters x Glass. Barons Court Theatre.
Writers and performers Joseph Ryan-Hughes and Connor McCrory seem to have a taste for works imbued with murderous intent and haunting [...]
Boy Parts. Soho Theatre.
Eliza Clark’s darkly twisted debut novel Boy Parts is certainly ripe for theatrical reinvention. Written entirely in first person by the [...]
London – A Bloom Of Consciousness. Bloomsbury Festival.
Bloomsbury is an unusually heterogenous district, even for London. The eastern segment has dense social housing inhabited by a long-standing ethnically [...]
The Island. Cervantes Theatre.
Spaniard Juan Carlos Rubio is something of a polymath. In addition to working as an actor and TV presenter, he is [...]
Breast-Baring. Lion and Unicorn Theatre.
The backstory of Jacob Newton’s entertaining if flawed debut play Breast-Baring concerns itself with the 17th century Irish pirate Anne Bonny, [...]
Thought Virus. Drayton Arms Theatre.
China’s government is currently engaged in a battle against what it labels separatism, terrorism, and extremism in the nation’s far-northwest autonomous [...]
Sunsets. Seven Dials Playhouse.
A viral hit at the Edinburgh Fringe, Georgie Grier’s uneven but mostly enjoyable one-woman show about love, self-deception, and the mechanics [...]
The White Factory. Marylebone Theatre.
“What do you think? Do I look smart?” is the question Holocaust survivor Yosef Kaufman poses us at the close of [...]
Operation Epsilon. Southwark Playhouse.
In July 1945, after VE day and shortly before the United States detonates atomic bombs over the Japanese cities of Hiroshima [...]
A Double Bill Of Forbidden Love. Playground Theatre.
“There’s a monster under the bed” yells US first lady Betty Ford, protagonist of Artefact, the initial and much the more [...]
The Ugly One. Hope Theatre.
Renowned German writer Marius Von Mayenburg’s latest work Nachtland receives its UK premier at the Young Vic early next year, so [...]
Myra Dubois Be Well. Peacock Theatre.
Fresh from a successful run at the Edinburgh Fringe, writer, actor, and stand-up performer Gareth Joyner brings his two gloriously fashioned [...]
God Of Carnage. Lyric Hammersmith.
Writer: Yasmina Reza. Translated by Christopher Hampton Director: Nicholai La Barrie Fresh from a huge hit with their revival of The [...]
You Are African First Before Anything. Omnibus Theatre.
Ophelia Charlesworth’s semi-autobiographical one-woman show You Are African First Before Anything explores the intricacies of the difficult bond between a deeply [...]
Maenad. Camden People’s Theatre.
Part gig, part performance art, part poetry reading, Elena Sirett’s Maenad, is a bleak, brutal, and brilliant third-person meditation on a [...]
The Underworld. National Theatre.
Public Acts’ The Odyssey is a five-episode community-driven theatrical adaptation of Odysseus’ epic journey. The first four productions were created by and [...]
Convicted Flower. Etcetera Theatre.
Frances Arroyo and Joan Villafañe's 45-minute courtroom drama Convicted Flower concerns itself with Roberta. Virtually imprisoned in her own house, she [...]
Friction Burn. Hope Theatre.
H and S, the protagonists of Sophie Faurie’s short, dark slice of surreal humour, Friction Burn, are the kind of venomous [...]
Dumbledore is So Gay. Southwark Playhouse.
Robert Holtom’s delightful coming-of-age-slash-rom-com Dumbledore is So Gay had a 2020 outing at the VAULT Festival and a late 2021 turn [...]
Homeless. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
One has to admire the consistency of director Moses Hao’s contribution to the Camden Fringe 2023. Earlier in the week he [...]
The Vagina Monologues. Canal Café Theatre.
First staged almost 30 years ago, Eve Ensler’s seminal work, The Vagina Monologues, gets a welcome if subdued revival from director [...]
The Making Of Frederick the Great. Cockpit Theatre.
Eliza Larkey’s The Making Of Frederick the Great certainly does not lack ambition. The story of how a queer 18th Prussian [...]
A Man and a Washing Machine. Etcetera Theatre.
Director Moses Hao’s ‘devised theatre’ production A Man and a Washing Machine aims, so the show blurb tells us, to invite [...]