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ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Iris Theatre, Covent Garden: Review

ALICE IN WONDERLAND: Iris Theatre, Covent Garden: Review

Nonsense stories are never the easiest thing to stage, even when it’s the most famous nonsense story of them all, so it’s brave of Iris Theatre to give it a go and quite a coup to pull it off as well as they have this hot, sultry summer. Set in and around the lovely St […]

THE DROWNED MAN from Punchdrunk: Review

Punchdrunk. What a fantastic name for a company. I mean, you really can’t beat it. As theatre groups go, they picked the doozy out of the barrel. And it sums up what they do too: disorientate with a carefully aimed theatrical punch to the nose, making everything just that little bit gin-blurred at t

TITANIC: Southwark Playhouse: Review

TITANIC: Southwark Playhouse: Review

This is the first professional outing in London for this five times Tony award winning musical which took Broadway by storm in 1997, and Titanic certainly lives up to its name. It’s a huge musical to fit onto the ‘large’ stage at Southwark Playhouse, even with David Woodhead’s ingenious use of the s

WEST END BARES ALL FOR CHARITY

WEST END BARES ALL FOR CHARITY

Once a year, in the name of charity, the most gorgeous performers from the West End trot along to the Cafe de Paris for a night of debauched fun and frolics and on September 1 you could be joining them. Run by the Make a Difference Trust (MAD), West End Bares is a glorious night […]

A TRIBUTE TO NUREYEV: English National Ballet at the Coliseum: Review

A TRIBUTE TO NUREYEV: English National Ballet at the Coliseum: Review

As this is only the second ballet I’ve seen recently (the first being an accidental brush with Carlos Acosta a few years ago) I came at this piece pretty green. So please don’t expect any great treatise on what was good and what was bad about either the dancing or the music. Instead, I’ll be […]

MY GAY BEST FRIEND: Emporium: Review

MY GAY BEST FRIEND: Emporium: Review

It’s not often that I see a piece of theatre that makes me cry with laughter one minute and then just cry the next, but My Gay Best Friend managed it easily and I walked out of the Emporium with a tear still in my eye. Racquell and Gavin are best friends. Both work in […]

TROUSER-WEARING CHARACTERS: Emporium, Brighton: Review

TROUSER-WEARING CHARACTERS: Emporium, Brighton: Review

Let’s Misbehave plays as we take our seats, setting the scene nicely for the one-woman show to follow. “Trouser-wearing characters are born, not made,” exclaims Rose Collis, writer, historian and performer, steering clear of the ‘G’ word. No, her horizons are broader than just queers. Rose is talki

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