Firebird is a new play based on the the memoirs of Sergey Fetisov who met and fell in love with a young fighter pilot whilst he was undertaking his 2 years conscription to the Russian military during the height of the Cold War. The memoirs have been adapted into a film and now a play by Richard Hough. The play
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For a first time reviewer this was a joy to witness. “The Last Days of Liz Truss” by Oxia Theatre company was a success. The show is set on her last morning as Prime Minister and Truss addresses the audience, talking about her life and time in politics with interjections from an offstage voice as she waits for the fateful
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Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” has inspired quite a range of adaptations over the years. We’ve seen everything from the clever “Bridget Jones’s Diary” to the unconventional “Pride and Prejudice and Zombies.” However, this latest adaptation of Gay Pride and No Prejudice falls somewhat short of its predecessors. While it’s clear they’ve aimed for broad appeal, it doesn’t quite hit
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Stranger Things The First Shadow takes the audience into the Duffer Brothers famous sci-fi world and leads them to Hawkins in the 50’s, 4 decades before the TV show is set. Fans of the TV show will meet familiar characters and see origin stories played out on stage in front of you, whilst retaining the tension that the Netflix show
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Happy Pride Month, gentle readers. For the heteronormative amongst you, a sauna is probably something you recognise at your local Bannatyne’s or David Lloyd, a sanctuary to unwind after a strenuous workout, or perhaps in a spa, revitalising your skin with ylang-ylang and a cucumber eye mask. For me and gay history (herstory), it has been a sanctum for men
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The great British public love a good ghost story as evidenced by the huge amount of supernatural programmes on our TV or even the sheer volume of podcasts about the topic. I am no different but of course my preferred method of ghost story consumption is watching them on stage. 2:22 A Ghost Story initially opened in July 2021 and
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Bluets will not be everyone’s cup of tea. It is not a traditional stage play. It is a multi-modal technological marvel. It exists somewhere in a largely unexplored realm lying between live TV, art-house cinema and theatre. It is the uncategorisable sum of an unfathomable number of parts, brought together with split-second sharp choreography, on-the-fly video editing, and a uniqueness
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In Harry Potter and the Cursed Child we meet Harry and his family 19 years after we last left Harry Potter. He now has a family of his own and his youngest song, Albus is at Hogwarts along with the son of Draco Malfoy, Scorpius. The show looks at how Albus struggles with living up to his father’s legacy as
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Candace Bushnell has hit London, more specifically the London Palladium with her sell out show. For those unfamiliar with Candace she is the OG Carrie Bradshaw, writer of Sex and The City as well as numerous other New York Times bestsellers. She is now taking to the stage to ask, is there still sex in the city and take us
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It seems to be an unwritten law of the West End that there always needs to be a horror or thriller on, previously Woman in Black held down the fort but since that has closed we have seen 2:22 and now The Enfield Haunting. The Enfield Haunting is based on the true story of Peggy Hodgson, her 2 daughters Janet
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