Bryony Shanahan

REVIEW: Weald, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Off West End, Reviews
Weald at the Finborough Theatre

Weald is a very satisfying play, a compelling examination of the impact that changing circumstances may have on our sense of self. This is achieved via the developing character arcs of two men at very different stages in their lives, yet both shaped by doubts about their future. The two excellent central performances, coupled with Daniel Foxsmith’s intelligent script, makes for an enriching theatrical experience.

REVIEW: Operation Crucible, Finborough Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Off West End, Reviews
Operation Crucible at the Finborough Theatre

This is a noisy and shouty play and in many ways that is necessarily so – industrial processes, bombs, football matches, drinking in the pub – these provide the necessary loud framework around the still centre of the men trapped both literally in the cellar of the Marples Hotel and figuratively by their own fears and terrors. In some respects therefore this is too big a play for the Finborough’s tiny space.