Simona Budd

REVIEW: What Am I Doing?, Union Theatre ✭✭✭✭

Off West End, Reviews

Whilst I don’t think What Am I Doing?: Tales From a Worrying Actor quite fulfilled its promise of exploring the essence of worrying, Gregory Hazel’s easy charisma, coupled with consistently entertaining anecdotes, made for an enjoyable one man show. Constructed as a collection of songs and monologues, the show thrives on Hazel’s ability to poke fun at himself. Though the music sometimes lacked a personal touch, his storytelling offered a memorable insight into the absurdities of his profession, and its associated anxieties.

REVIEW: Show Off, The Pheasantry ✭✭✭✭

Cabaret, Off West End, Reviews
Nikki Aiten in Show Off At The Pheasantry

Nikki Aitken, with pianist Simona Budd, performed Show Off. Aitken is a widely recognized artist in Australia where she has won awards for her cabaret programmes and to which she will be returning soon in the Australian tour of Amity Dry’s Mother, Wife and the Complicated Life. She is also a composer in her own right, both of cabaret numbers and of a new musical GO!, which received a fine first workshop outing last summer at the Camden Fringe Festival, as reviewed here by Stephen Collins. On the basis of this performance she will surely consolidate that reputation further.