REVIEW: Taj Express, Peacock Theatre ✭✭✭

Book tickets to Taj Express at the Peacock Theatre London

Taj Express Peacock Theatre, 14th June 2017 3 Stars BOOK NOW If you missed the superlative ‘Beyond Bollywood’ at the Palladium last year, you could do worse than catch this simpler, humbler offering from the Merchant clan (Vaibhavi, Choreography and Shruti, Director and Producer with Pranav, Executive Producer, and music by Salim and Sulaiman Merchant) in the subterranean lair down Kingsway. No, it’s not the equal of that brand-leader in terms of drama, music, choreography or staging, but Toby Gough’s work-a-day book serves up a revue-style panorama of popular Indian dance styles– keeping it strictly in the family –. There is ‘assistant choreography’ also from Rajitdev Easwardas, Deepak Singh, Tejaswi Shetty, Pratik Utekar and Rahul Shetty). There are basic projections and some rather more sophisticated lighting designs by Miguel Angel Fernandez, and Alessio Comuzzi pumps out the sound. Inevitably, given the indebtedness of the show to the Indian film industry, … Read more

FIRST LOOK: Soho at Peacock Theatre

Stufish presents Soho at Peacock Theatre

Soho is a thrill ride of circus, street and theatre performance, re-creating the edgy, exciting and voyeuristic world of London’s Soho. Soho is created by rock’n’roll global powerhouse Stufish is now playing at London’s Peacock Theatre playing until 20 May 2017. Soho‘s seriously crazy amulti-talentedted international cast tell the fast-paced story of a young man’s walk on the wild side, as the colourful characters he meets reveal an unexpected and darkly fantastical world, where glamour and sleaze rub shoulders. Soaring aerial acrobatics on moving trapezes take the energetic world class performers on a rollercoaster ride. With the pulsating sound of the underground, and the music scene that is Soho’s heartbeat = 21st century indie, buskers, the burlesque of the 50s, the 60s love and peace Carnaby Street generation, disco and punk of the 70s, Cool Britannia pop of the 80s and rave of the 90s – Soho has the iconic … Read more