REVIEW: My Land’s Shore, Ye Olde Rose And Crowne ✭✭✭✭
It has been fifteen years in the making, and – finally – My Land’s Shore has made it to the stage in its world premiere full production.
Julian Eaves
REVIEW: Anyone Can Whistle, Union Theatre ✭✭✭
The musical performances in Anyone Can Whistle will please people who like brilliantly written songs, and they will fire the imagination of anyone who hears them to imagine another, better, story to tell around them.
REVIEW: Crocodile, Vault Festival ✭✭✭
There are shadows here of ‘The Events’, as well as other absurdist and expressionist drama. I hope we hear more from Mr Eyre very soon.
REVIEW: Greywing House, Vault Festival ✭✭✭
The choice of location assists the grim spectacle no end, with spaces melting away into the dank, shadowy recesses of the apparently never ending cellars beneath the sprawl of Waterloo station.
UPCOMING: Bare Essentials, Seven Dials Club
Bare Essentials Seven Dials Club Saturday 28th January New Writing shows always tell you a lot more about the producers than the writers, and this one is no exception. The star here is producer Liam Fleming, whose jolly, bouncy, avuncular ‘bear-ish’ persona dominated events: he is the classic salesman, urging you to close the deal and tweet your approval of his wares at every step of the way – he even runs a ‘competition’ during the show to find the best promoter of his goods. His outfit, ‘Encompass Productions’, which he shares with the less visible Jonathan Woodhouse and Rachel Owens, must be doing magnificently well because they hired the bar and performance space of Covent Garden’s coolly hip Seven Dials Club for this showcase of the work of six authors. Scott Mullen was on first at he runs a nice line in Capra-esque comedy, with sharp dialogue and bold … Read more
REVIEW: Cautionary Tales For Daughters, Jermyn Street Theratre ✭✭✭✭✭
Although this is carefully scripted and directed with minute attention to detail, it all feels totally spontaneous and improvised. And dangerous. We might go anywhere with this, and – in her hands – we pretty much do.
UPCOMING: January The Musical Revue
JANUARY : The Musical Revue The Crazy Coqs 24th January 2017 It was lovely to get to see another outing for this charming seasonal work-in-progress feast last week. First launched last year at the Canal Cafe Theatre, with a different line-up, this show made a terrific initial impact. Perfectly suited to the spontaneous, almost improvisational atmosphere of the home of the News Revue, this show made a big splash. Then, the authors said it was their intention to go away and improve upon it, and this – glamorously repositioned into the West End – is the result of a year’s further labour. The three-hander offers about a dozen songs – and a couple of brief sketches – loosely linked by the common factor that they all belong in the first month of the year. It’s a clever idea, and given witty and sometimes touching expression in the songs of Patrick … Read more
REVIEW: Death Takes A Holiday, Charing Cross Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Maury Yeston’s magnificent score for Death Takes A Holiday – one of the finest in London right now – is a glory not to be missed in this European premiere of one of his more extraordinary creations.
