REVIEW: Faustaff, Cockpit Theatre ✭✭

Faustaff at the Cockpit Theatre

Despite these stark issues, the Cockpit Theatre is a wonderful space and the lighting was well deployed to create some tense moments. Bizarrely, someone in the company seemed to think it was a good time to get some production shots, annoyingly snapping away throughout the entire show. Perhaps a task best left for the dress rehearsal…

REVIEW: Echoes, Arcola Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Echoes by Paul Naylor at Arcola Theatre

Echoes is a success for many reasons but fundamentally it’s because there is such strength in the story telling. In fact there are 2 stories running concurrently and though the time periods in the stories are 175 years apart and told by 2 actors independently, there is such deep and meaningful symbiosis between them so that what can be a fragmented experience is a beautiful whole.

REVIEW: The Miniaturists, Arcola Theatre ✭✭

Miniaturists at Arcola Theatre

With the death of provincial repertory theatre, the connections between the theatre world of London and ‘the provinces’ have atrophied, and where The Miniaturists could make a real difference is in taking their project of fully-staged short plays into other parts of the country and gathering in work from local authors.

REVIEW: Four Minutes Twelve Seconds, Trafalgar Studios 2 ✭✭✭✭

Four minutes twelve seconds at Trafalgar Studios 2

By the end of the play there is a horrifying awareness that a variation of this story is currently being enacted for real somewhere in the near vicinity: in immediate families, next door, down the road, but certainly not further away than the next suburb. This is a situation, indeed a problem that concerns everyone and there is no doubt that it should be put in front of the eyes and ears of the young people who need to hear.