Artistic Director Tom Littler’s first production The Circle is now performing at the Orange Tree Theatre in Richmond. The round Theatre layout offers challenges for a director and producer with setting the stage to allow an almost 360-degree visibility to the entire audience. However, after last night’s press night, I…

Many years ago, circus entertainers were renowned for being part of a “freak show.”  Hugh Jackman led The Greatest Showman into the cinema in 2017 as the American circus entertainer P.T Barnum put those who were “different” into the public eye and created a platform for their talents.  Waldo’s Circus…

Gino Bartali rode to glory for the second time in the Tour de France in 1948. However, Glory Ride focuses on the riders bravery during World War II, where he risked his life and used his privilege of being allowed out of the city to be able to ride in…

F**cking Men by Joe Dipietro based on Schnitzler’s La Ronde explores attitudes and sexual relationships, encounters, and liaisons through a gay man-themed perspective. Disclosing secrets and attitudes are often not openly shared. Alex Britt, Charlie Condou, Derek Mitchell, and Stanton Plummer-Cambridge certainly have a fantastic rapport on stage and trust…

The mindful state between genius and madness is often closely linked. Arthur ( Jack Fairey) is an artist surrounded by many unfinished paintings and boxes that require attention before he and his girlfriend Tara move into their new flat. Are her concerns justified? Arthur discovers a book on ancient Greece…

Generation Games offers two one act plays in one evening at the White Bear in Kennington. Starting the evening with A Certain Term by Michael McManus followed by I F_____n’ Love You by Charlie Ross Mackenzie. The two plays follow similar themes of love, loss, and life in all its…

Trafalgar Theatre’s currently home to the West End hit musical Jersey Boys. Tonight, 11th April 2023, the theatre was taken over by the prestigious Pantomime Awards 2023 event. The glamorous evening of awards, entertainment and hosted by one of the UK’s “national treasures ” Christopher Biggins, the UK Pantomime Association…

The semi-biographical story told by Manal through rants, movement, and raw honesty towards her secret and forbidden white boyfriend isn’t for the faint-hearted. Descriptions of forced imprisonment, eating disorders, and controlling behavior endured at the hands of her Muslim father. RAH explores the internal battle taking place between who Manal…

Visitors by Barney Norris tell the touching story of Edie (Tessa Bell-Briggs) whose onset of dementia has created life-changing decisions that are being discussed by the family around her. Fear, confusion, and flashbacks map out the new reality that dementia patients endure. Arthur (Christopher Ravenscroft) lives and breathes the family…

Emma Rice’s adaptation of Brief Encounter certainly adds a fresh look at the 1945 British romantic film directed by David Lean. Which had originally been adapted from the Noël Coward play of 1936 Still Life. Love works in mysterious ways. Especially temptation and unforbidden love. Laura Jesson (Hanora Kamen) rushes…