REVIEW: Casa Valentina, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭✭

Casa Valentina by Harvey Fierstein at Southwark Playhouse

As directed by Luke Sheppard, Casa Valentino is a play about a marriage. Everything turns on the central relationship between George (Edward Wolstenholme) and Rita (Tamsin Carroll). They have an unconventional marriage. She married him knowing that he liked to dress in women’s’ clothing; indeed, she has fostered and supported his desire because she loves him. She is content for his dress-wearing self to be the prettiest girl in their marriage. She welcomes, supports and mothers the other men who come to rent rooms in their weekend guesthouse and unleash their inner woman. A Weekend In The Country with a difference.

REVIEW: Where Do Little Birds Go?, Vault Festival ✭✭✭✭

Jessica Butcher as Lucy in Where Do Little Birds Go? A new play by Camilla Whitehill

Where Do Little Birds Go? Vault Festival 6 February 2015 4 Stars “My name is Lucy Fuller. I am 24 and I live in Whitechapel. When I was 18 I was kidnapped by the Kray twins, and locked in a flat with an escaped murderer” So reads the poster and teaser for Camilla Whitehill’s new play Where Do Little Birds Go?, the title taken from the song sung by Barbara Windsor in Lionel Bart’s first musical Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be! Lucy Fuller starts the play as a 17 year old innocent, full of youthful bravado and that indestructable belief that comes with youth. It’s not too long before her journey down the rabbit hole of late night London, and the world of the Krays, brings down that bravado leaving her youth shattered. Where Do Little Birds Go? is a one act play that runs at just on 65 … Read more