REVIEW: Briefs Close Encounters, London Wonderground July 2017 ✭✭✭✭
If you like things of the ilk of ‘Cirque du Soleil’, and other such vacuous circus-type divertissements, you will most assuredly delight in this.
If you like things of the ilk of ‘Cirque du Soleil’, and other such vacuous circus-type divertissements, you will most assuredly delight in this.
This was a welcome opportunity to get better acquainted with the repertoire of one of the country’s brightest and most interesting new songwriters
Disco Pigs Trafalgar Studios 18 July 2017 4 Stars Book Now The twentieth anniversary of Enda Walsh’s unique, hugely enjoyable and energetic play is given a high octane and loving production by Tara Finney Productions. Bonded as their mothers gave birth side by side, Sinead and Darren have renamed themselves Pig and Runt, and are desperate to escape their dull ‘Pork City’, have invented their own language and rituals and swagger round the stage and their environment. They live for nights out, the disco, the violence, they live for each other, but Runt’s wistfulness and dreams of escape are beginning to show up the cracks in their inter-dependent relationship. It culminates when they achieve entry into the best disco in town, and she catches a glimpse of a life she wants, one which doesn’t involve Pig and his violent jealousy. Here we have two wonderful performances. Colin Campbell is … Read more
It might be billed as a tale of two cities, but for me, and those around me, this evening was a tale of one star.
A lot of impressive creative talent has been thrown at Boys In The Buff, and one can but marvel at the standard of the quality of work lavished upon it.
Committee is without a doubt one of the most exciting new musicals you’re going to see this year.
Dominated and ultimately hindered by its unfortunate subtext, Bodies leaves its audience feeling uneasy for all the wrong reasons.
It’s a cast recording of a show that I can’t wait to see. I’m sure I won’t be alone in that feeling once the whole world hears the story of Bubble Boy!