BWW Review: CAMP, The Lion And Unicorn TheatreAugust 23, 2019Becky (Camille Wilhelm), Felix (Nicholas Marrast-Lewis), and Mary (Fizz Waller) are spending the summer at Camp in the hopes of earning their Gay-Card. In-between classes about the LGBTQ+ community, how to deal with harassment, and how to be inclusive, they learn that support and understanding are all it takes to navigate a society where queer is everything people aspire to be.
BWW Review: THE WEATHERMAN, Park TheatreAugust 22, 2019Beezer and O'Rourke share a dilapidated flat in London trying to make ends meet. When Dollar, their landlord, promises to forgo their rent for six months and to give them a weekly allowance in exchange for a small favour, they don't think twice of what their decision will entail.
BWW Review: THE WEREWOLF OF WASHINGTON HEIGHTS, The CockpitAugust 21, 2019A reporter and her camerawoman visit a family after one of their twin children has disappeared. Peculiar family relationships and a modest social critique are unearthed in a New York that's bordering World War 45, where hipsters and criminals coexists in a grim picture of the city.
BWW Review: MY OTHER SELF at The CockpitAugust 21, 2019All or Nothing Repertory Theatre Company unveils what lies behind King Richard III, William Shakespeare's cruel hunchback, the deformed villain who ends the Bard's War of the Roses Saga. Simon Stewart weaves Henry VI Part 2 & 3 and Richard III into a nifty one-hour play depicting how the King is simply a product of the unhealthy environment that lead to his rise to power.
BWW Review: TOWARDS ZERO, The Mill At SonningAugust 18, 2019It's the late 1950s and like every year, family and friends gather at Lady Tressilian's summer house in Cornwall. Tragedy hits and a murder is committed in Christie's deliciously dramatic fashion. Brian Blessed therefore concludes his Agatha Christie quartet at The Mill at Sonning with Towards Zero, the author's last installment of her Superintendent Battle series and what's regarded as one of her finest stories.
BWW Review: LOAFERS, RADA StudiosAugust 18, 2019Caroline and Edward are two twenty-something who do nothing in their lives. They spend their upper-class existence pottering around their flat in their silk dressing gowns, lamenting their boredom.
BWW Review: WARHEADS, Park TheatreAugust 17, 2019Miles and Mory, two naïve young men who think they have nothing to lose, join the British Army. They come back home tour after tour feeling less than themselves. Miles is especially suffering as his crippling bouts of PTSD start corroding his relationship with his girlfriend Tena and his approach to civilian life.
BWW Review: LETTING GO, Hen And Chickens TheatreAugust 16, 2019A woman's interest with a cheating couple she sees on her train almost on a daily basis takes a drastic turn when her involvement exposes her brutal childhood and aversion to doing good. Little by little, The Woman (Zoe Cunningham) is revealed to be a cold-blooded sociopath with an obsession with social media and her audience become the enablers of her actions.
BWW Review: SH*T HAPPENS, Camden People's TheatreAugust 16, 2019At the age of 21, Patrycja Dynowska is diagnosed with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. She details her struggles with coping with such a crippling and humiliating - yet entirely invisible - illness in Sh*t Happens, her self-penned solo show.
BWW Review: ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, Southwark PlayhouseAugust 15, 2019One night, the archipelago of the Antilles is shaken by a terrifying storm. To distract a little girl from the wind and rain, people from the village get together to tell her the story of Ti Moune, a peasant orphan who falls in love with a young a?oegrand hommea?? (one of the light-skinned descendants of the original French planters and their slaves) who lives on the other side of the island.
BWW Review: THE GEMINUS, Tristan Bates TheatreAugust 14, 2019Ross Dinwiddy adapts Joseph Conrad's 1909 novella The Secret Sharer for the theatre and takes it to London after acclaimed runs in Brighton. The original text saw the unnamed Captain of a ship (renamed George Hotson in the play and played by John Black) takes the decision to conceal Leggatt (Gareth Wildig), a man accused of the murder of a crew member on another ship.
BWW Review: VIRTUALLY REALITY, The TaproomAugust 14, 2019It is an obvious statement that each and every person on Earth lives life differently. The clear diverse range of perception has kick-started a series of studies that have gone on to tackle how the human psyche reacts to shapes, among other things, and to attempt to explain the unease perceived by the brain when confronted with human-like figures (think androids and automatons but mannequins as well).
BWW Review: THE PARLIAMENT, Cecil Sharp HouseAugust 13, 2019Devon (Fraser Brown), Moira (Roshi Cowen), Jasper (Harry Higginson), and Fenn (Nina Fidderman) used to spend their summers at the farmhouse owned by Goliath. After learning that the man has passed, they reunite in the beloved place. Their summer idylls start to look different as they learn that nobody is who they thought them to be and those who seemed to be so close have grown distant and resentful.
BWW Review: G(L)ORY, Hen And Chickens TheatreAugust 12, 2019Bobby - like any streaming website subscriber - has been lured into a world of true crime. He's watched countless documentaries, series, and films about sick minds and sadistic individuals, like millions of other people.
BWW Review: 909, The Monkey HouseAugust 12, 2019Reverend Jim Jones and his disciples made the headlines in 1978 when he ordered his congregation to ingest a drink laced with cyanide, leading to what was considered the greatest loss of civilian life in a deliberate act before the 11th of September 2001.
BWW Review: TRACING ERASED MEMORIES, Central LondonAugust 12, 2019London, 2010: students flood the streets in protest of the recent cuts to education funding and are kettled in Whitehall. Cairo, 2011: the political climate leads Egypt to rise and rebel against the current government. London, 2019: Dina Mohamed and Hilda Moucharrafieh debut at Camden Fringe with Tracing Erased Memories: A Parallel Walk of London and Cairo after being the recipients of the International Bursary Award at Amsterdam Fringe Festival last year.
BWW Review: IN MEMORIAM, The Chapel PlayhouseAugust 11, 2019In Memoriam seeks out to explore how social media has become a tool that hangs above the heads of users like a sword of Damocles. It's only when Doll moves in with her friends Dex and Mel that those around her notice how dependant from Memoriam (a new sharing platform that allows people to download and enjoy uploaders' memories) she's become. They decide to stage an intervention to help her.
BWW Review: WHITE NURSE, The Lion And Unicorn TheatreAugust 11, 2019LARC is a rehabilitation centre that specialise in making people fall out of love with their partners. Layla checks herself in after being subjected to her boyfriend Joe's regular physical and psychological abuse. She revisits her memories and focuses on trying to overcome her feelings in a brief play by Abby Coppard.
BWW Review: [TITLE OF SHOW], Moors Bar TheatreAugust 11, 2019Two guys write a musical about two guys writing a musical. That's the plot of Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell's 2004 project [title of show]. Written as an entry to the first edition of the New York Musical Festival, it went on to conquer audiences first Off-Broadway, then on Broadway, and then all around the US and the world.
BWW Review: FRUITS OR, THE DECLINE OF A DISTANT MEMORY, RADA StudiosAugust 10, 2019It's hard to say what FRUITS or, The Decline of a Distant Memory is about. It's certainly not about literal fruit but it is about a decay of some sort. The Collective describe themselves as an 'international experimental performance group' on Twitter, and one can clearly see why. The piece is, essentially, a pretentious but brazen absurdist play on the decadence of society.