REVIEW: Julie, National Theatre ✭✭✭
Jessica Wretlind reviews Julie, a new adaptation of Miss Julie by Polly Stenham now playing at the National Theatre.
Jessica Wretlind
REVIEW: Tina the musical, Aldwych Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
It’s simply The Best success story of the most deserving kind. Tina the musical is a stunning show in all respects and likely to be a run away success throughout it’s year on London’s West End.
REVIEW: Doubt A Parable, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
The 90-minute run offers a breathless battle of wit and conviction between Flynn and Aloysius, tautly directed by Ché Walker.
REVIEW: Cyrano De Bergerac, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
Kathryn Hunter is a magnificent lead, and manages to add gravitas to this breezy production. Having played Lear and Richard III, she can transcend gender with ease and masters Cyrano’s debonair masculinity.
REVIEW: Janis Joplin – Full Tilt, Theatre Royal Stratford East ✭✭✭
Janis Joplin: Full Tilt Theatre Royal Stratford East 3 Stars Book Tickets This Edinburgh Fringe sell out is the closest thing you will get to watching Janis Joplin in concert. A hybrid of live gig and monologue, the play gives voice to both the talent and the trauma that led Janis into a life of addiction. Angie Darcy in the title role has an impressive command of Joplin’s raspy tones, the wailing, and supercharged emotional delivery that propelled her into stardom. If the acting fails to match her superb vocal range, there is still much to enjoy in this celebration of a loved music icon. Darcy embodies a sexually forthright persona, and exudes confidence as she seduces the audience through both song and speech. She is an electric Pearl (Janis’s stage alter-ego), but unfortunately, the element of performance never quite disappears. When on the recurring subject of loneliness and her … Read more
REVIEW: In The Night Time Before The Sun Rises, Gate Theatre ✭✭✭
There is promise in this piece. The hallucinatory nature of exhaustion allows the tired pair to swerve through time and space, offering a great basis for metaphysical conversation. Much similar yet not as gripping as Duncan MacMillan’s LUNGS, Segal poses the question: ‘Should they ever have brought this child into such a wounded world?’
REVIEW: One Of Those, Tristan Bates Theatre ✭✭
As the lives from one carriage merge with the other, the play descends into farce and the promise to bring new understanding is lost.
REVIEW: Yen, Royal Court Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Her characters are abundantly flawed while still empathetic, and their relationship with the modern world is a marriage of dark comedy and struggle. Her plays are hugely important. See for yourself.
