REVIEW: She Loves Me, BroadwayHD ✭✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon is charmed by Broadway hit She Loves Me from the comfort of his living room through BroadwayHD.com
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REVIEW: Slipped. Cinderella … Rebooted, Royal Vauxhall Tavern London ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews the Royal Vauxhall Tavern’s new pantomime, Slipped: Cinderella…Rebooted Slipped: Cinderella…Rebooted Royal Vauxhall Tavern, London Four stars After taking a fabulous wrecking ball to Mother Goose and Aladdin, the Royal Vauxhall Tavern has given a queer twist to another classic panto with Slipped. Aimed very much at grown-up boys and girls, this is the Cinderella story like you’ve never seen it before. It has everything you expect from a traditional panto, from classic audience interaction and innuendo to songs and silliness, but all “rebooted” with gay abandon. Cinders defies her ugly stepmother to party at the ball but the handsome prince turns out to be more interested in what’s on her feet than the girl herself. Packed with jokes good and bad, the show is full of topical cultural references, and only a little politics, thanks to sharp comic writing by Tim Benzie and Paul Joseph. As with … Read more
REVIEW: Julius Caesar and Me, Methuen Drama ✭✭✭✭
Mark Ludmon reviews Julius Caesar and Me – Paterson Joseph’s revealing book exploring Shakespeare’s “African play”, Julius Caesar
REVIEW: Leave Taking, Bush Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
Other more recent plays may have tackled many of the same themes but, over 30 years later, Leave Taking still feels fresh and original despite becoming a modern classic.
Shakespeare plays to tour pubs in London and the south this summer
Two Shakespeare plays are to be performed in the gardens of pubs around London and the south this summer in a partnership between Fuller’s Inns and theatre company Open Bar.
Actors respond to agent’s complaint about BAME actors with #VaVaVoom
An agent’s complaint that black, Asian and minority ethic actors were putting “talented white performers out of work” has led to a social media backlash under the banner of #VaVaVoom.
REVIEW: Mood Music, Old Vic Theatre ✭✭✭✭
Mood Music is an entertaining satire on the music industry with plenty of laugh-out-loud jokes and intriguing insights
Wandsworth Arts Fringe 2018 Theatre Highlights
Mark Ludmon sifts through the theatre highlights of Wandsworth Arts Fringe Wandsworth Arts Fringe is back, bringing a packed programme of shows to locations across the south London borough from Battersea and Balham to Putney and Tooting. Running from 4 to 20 May, it features more than 170 events from circus, comedy and spoken work to free music workshops, dance and an outdoor carnival. Shillington Park in Battersea will come to life with a dazzling circus in a new purpose-built big top, while The Errant Stage will travel around the borough showcasing the best of the fest. One of the hubs for fringe theatre will be Upstairs at The Cat’s Back in Point Pleasant in Wandsworth in a takeover by Fragility, a partnership of performers based in London. Shows include Doubtful Sound’s The Women of Ishikawa on 5 and 6 May, presenting hilarious and horrifying Japanese folk tales, and Purple … Read more
