Review: CANNED GOODS, Southwark Playhouse
by Cindy Marcolina - January 21, 2025
Erik Kahn’s play tested very positively in the States early last year and has gained even more resonance since then. Reviewing it on the day of the United States Presidential Inauguration, where Elon Musk gave a hasty Roman salute to Trump’s rapt audience, hit differently. In front of us, Charlotte ...
Review: LAST RITES, The North Wall Arts Centre
by Niamh Jones - January 17, 2025
Have you ever really stopped to consider the significance of sound, of speech, on everyday life… on theatre? Many of us take these things for granted, yet Ad Infinitum’s new play throws the realities of being deaf into sharp relief....
Review: CHLOE PETTS: HOW YOU SEE ME, HOW YOU DON’T, Soho Theatre
by Kat Mokrynski - January 20, 2025
Comedians may have told Chloe Petts that comedy is subjective, but Petts is determined to prove them wrong. In How You See Me, How You Don’t, Petts wants every single person in the world to enjoy the show, whether they’re a young queer person or a Crystal Palace football fan - or both!...
Review: THE LONELY LONDONERS, Kiln Theatre
by Aliya Al-Hassan - January 17, 2025
Roy Williams’ tight adaptation of Sam Selvon’s 1956 rather meandering novel The Lonely Londoners continues that education. It was a hit when it played at the diminutive Jermyn Street theatre last year. Ebenezer Bamboye’s adaptation now comes to the Kiln Theatre, transporting you to a Bayswater bedsi...
Review: JENŮFA, Royal Ballet And Opera
by Alexander Cohen - January 16, 2025
It’s a mistake to dismiss Claus Guth’s production of Janacek’s Jenůfa as symbolically overwrought and interminably grey. Look closer and you’ll discover a duality to each beguiling appearance....
Review: KYOTO, @sohoplace
by Cindy Marcolina - January 17, 2025
After a stellar run in Stratford-upon-Avon, Joe Murphy and Joe Robertson’s RSC-fuelled project takes hold of London. Flashback to 1997, the United Nations are desperately trying to draft up an arrangement that might save the Earth. The deadlock on global warming hadn’t eased for years: each represen...
Review: LA PENDUE: LA MANÉKINE, Barbican Centre
by Franco Milazzo - January 15, 2025
Fusing together puppetry, live music and projections, MimeLondon’s opener La Manékine brings to vivid life one of the more gruesome of the Brothers Grimm’s tales....