Review: NUTCRACKER, London Coliseum
by Vikki Jane Vile - December 13, 2024
It has been some time coming. For nearly 15 years English National Ballet enthusiastically performed Wayne Eagling’s Nutcracker, a traditional but rather staid production with a fuzzy narrative and lacking opportunity for the company to shine....
Review: SÉAYONCÉ’S PERKY NATIVITITTIES, Yard Theatre
by Franco Milazzo - December 13, 2024
In Séayoncé’s latest adventure, Dan Wye’s drag ghost whisperer joins forces with her ex-lover Satan to put on an anti-Christmas TV show. Well, that’s the plan at least: before long, she discovers that she has been duped by another former amour Santa to deliver the “real” message of the season....
Review: THE LITTLE FOXES, Young Vic
by Alexander Cohen - December 12, 2024
We love watching a rich family crumble on stage. From Oedipus and his mother to Chekhov’s families fractured by existential angst, to Ibsen’s split by socio-politics paradigm shifts. The Hubbards, the family of former plantation owners in Lilian Hellman’s The Little Foxes, could be the spiritual suc...
Review: FLAMINGO, The Hope Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - December 13, 2024
“Oh, that I were a man!” In the opening scene, one might worry that they have accidentally stumbled into a one-woman production of Much Ado About Nothing, as the woman on stage gives a passionate rendition of one of Beatrice’s iconic monologues. However, this quickly changes when another woman accid...
Review: CINDERELLA, King's Head Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - December 13, 2024
Written and directed by British Panto Award winner Andrew Pollard, Cinderella is given a “North London upgrade” in the King’s Head theatre’s first-ever pantomime. Maddy Erzan-Essien stars as the titular heroine, a girl who longs to find her place in the world and is forced to serve her evil stepsist...
Review: OLGA KOCH COMES FROM MONEY, Soho Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - December 12, 2024
Do you relate to the problem of being bullied in state school for being rich and then being bullied in private school for not being rich enough? Then this might be the show for you. Olga Koch Comes From Money is an hour of stand-up in which Koch explores her own relationship with wealth in a show th...