Part dance, part comedy, 100% emotion, EXXY is a new play exploring the disabled experience through artistic representation, social commentary and the rallying cry of just yearning to exist as you are. Presented in the welcoming space of the Battersea Arts Centre, this 75 minute play uses movement, self expression and visual media to express in unflinching honesty the reality
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Inter Alia is a new play by Suzie Miller, the writer that brought us Prima Facie. This new play keeps the legal system at its heart again but this time the focus is on Jessica Parks, a female judge in the Crown court who is juggling her busy professional life along with being a wife and a mother to her
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On the 4th of August I took my little girl to see Freckle Productions’ The Baddies which is based on the Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler book of the same name. I had previously seen Freckle’s production of Stick Man so was looking forward to the show and it did not disappoint. Freckle has a fantastic way of staying true
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Since my first viewing of Operation Mincemeat in 2022 at Riverside Studios I have adored this show but having last seen it nearly 2 years ago when it opened in the West End and with a cast change it was time for a revisit. Keen to see if the show remains as strong now that the original cast (and writers)
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After converting to the Jamie Lloyd hype train after Sunset Boulevard I was incredibly excited to see his most recent directorial outing, his reinvention of another Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, Evita. Evita tells of Eva Peron’s rise to fame and power looking at how she did it, her ambitions, her charity work and her impact on Argentina, all narrated by
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I have no shame in admitting it…I am a Starlight Express stan. Having given 5 stars to the production last year had to check out the new cast to see if they could keep my infatuation with the show going! For those unfamiliar with the show now is time to put aside any notion that it is a serious piece
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A Midsummer Night’s Dream returns to the Bridge Theatre after what feels like a mere blink of an eye but in reality is 6 years! I missed it back in 2019 so I was determined not to let that happen this time. Shakespeare’s play transports us to a world of fairies and lovers and the Bridge Theatre is transformed into
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Hadestown opened in London’s West End just over a year ago and since then we have not only seen the original West End cast but also the original Broadway cast appear for a limited run and, like the seasons, it is time for a change and the 2025 cast to take the stage. I made no secret of the fact
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Would my latest visit to the Criterion see me boarding the ship of dreams or sinking faster than a boat that’s hit an iceberg. I had no idea what to expect but as a Celine Dion fan (I mean who isn’t) I had high expectations of Titanique however this show blew these expectations out of the water. The show tells
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Children’s imaginations are a joy to behold, witnessing a world materialize from nothing to fill their lives with play. But what happens when a child must use that imagination to escape, to fix the world they exist in and create an imagined space where they may finally find peace and safety. Michael Taylor-Broderick invites us as writer and director of
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