*This review is based on a preview performance of 'Poisoned Polluted'. As you enter the intimate space in the Old Red Lion Theatre, printed pictures of green leaves, the kind you find on trees in spring, cover the wall. There are also actual leaves scattered on the floor near the back. The set is mostly [...]
My next wonderful guest in this series is Grace Gummer, director of 'Germ Free Adolescent', which is running at The Bunker Theatre this month. During the show's run, the Bunker Theatre announced that unfortunately it will be closing its doors in March 2020 due to a proposed redevelopment of the site. The converted car park [...]
I'm well known to gather leaflets wherever I can, particularly ones in the entrance of a theatre before a show begins. But in ‘Germ Free Adolescent’, sixteen-year old Ashley puts my leaflet gathering abilities to shame. She has meticulously gathered four of each STD related leaflet that she owns and has learnt all that there [...]
Anyone who knows me, knows that 'Ragtime', is my all-time favourite musical. So the news that Sedos, an amateur theatre company based in London, would be staging the show this November was like Christmas come early. When I learnt that this production would have a 33 person cast and an 18 piece orchestra, I was [...]
‘Different From the Others’, written by Claudio Macor, is a sobering reminder of just how long activists have been banging the drum and working tirelessly to defend people's rights to love who they desire, regardless of gender. We see how this often involves working against the tide and sticking your neck out for what you [...]
Little Baby Jesus is centred around the lives of three black teenagers as they wade through the intersection between childhood and young adulthood. Joanne (Rachel Nwokoro) is a loudmouth wisecracker. Often her breakdowns of a situation will be punctuated with the words ‘real talk’ to let you know that she ain’t chattin shit (real talk). [...]
In ‘Ugly’, five female actresses perform a series of short monologues. In each scene, the actresses take it in turn to embody a different character, from a woman who tries to perfect her smile in the mirror, to a young girl who is told that she’s ugly on the inside, right after a guy has [...]
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