Bonnie and Clyde the Musical centres on the infamous vigilantes: fame-hungry Bonnie Parker (Lucy Hilton); and hell-raising Clyde Barrow (Shaun Hamilton) known for their chain of robberies in depression-age America. Despite having to contend with some technical issues and a sweltering hot room, the young cast of Bonnie and Clyde persisted through. The tuneful score [...]
Jenny Bede: The Musical is a delightful one-woman show with a stand-up comedy feel. Inspired by the success of Lin Manuel-Miranda’s Hamilton, Jenny’s generated around 250 ideas for a musical of her own in the hope that one will be picked up by the legend himself, Sir Cameron Mackintosh. And yes, I shamefully did a [...]
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland deliver a high-octane production of the preppy musical Legally Blonde, based on the 2001 film with the same. The choreography is tight, the roles are superbly cast and the set is overwhelmingly pink. Although the stakes in this show may be low, the level of fun is consistently high. Elle [...]
At around the age of thirteen, a school friend of mine once confronted me to say that if a black person ever did something to hurt her family she would stop speaking to me. At that age, I was stunned into silence. How could she conceivably think that I was responsible for the actions of [...]
In Parakeet, our protagonist (Michelle Tiwo) from Margate is fascinated with birds, parakeets in particular. She is keenly followed by her eccentric neighbour, Dust (Isabel Oliver). Despite bad first impressions, Dust manages to work her way into the bird lover’s life along with Tam, a refugee from Eritrea (Lula Mebrahtu). They initially bond over their [...]
How do you maintain journalistic integrity in an industry where the push to produce clickbait content is at odds with this? When the US President undermines the value of the free press in coining the term ‘Fake News’, how can journalism maintain its reputation? These questions are at the centre of the new play ‘Fake [...]
Now in its 40th year, NewsRevue has become a reliable go-to production for sharp and satirical entertainment at the Fringe. Each year, two men and two women provide scathing comedic commentary on society mostly through song and dance. As you would expect, there’s no shortage of material for NewsRevue to target. From Madeline McCann to [...]
Mirror, mirror on the wall – please tell me why each fairy-tale character is barely recognisable in this play? If I had a magic mirror, that would have been my primary wish whilst watching Honeypot. In this play, the fairy-tale princesses from our childhood are living in 2019 and facing modern day struggles. We meet [...]
Out of the Blue is an all-male youth a cappella group from Oxford. But no, they aren’t the well-mannered, clean-cut type of a cappella group you may have seen before. These are fist-pumping, roof-raising, body-shaking school boy rockstars. Their 60-minute set has a variety of popular songs including remixed versions of Queen’s ‘Crazy Little Thing [...]
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