REVIEW: The Diary Of A Teenage Girl, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
It’s very pleasant, often amusing, and if it doesn’t plumb any depths in its conventional story of growing up.
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REVIEW: Roundelay, Southwark Playhouse ✭
If you like simple – very simple – soap-operas about nice middle-class people, who drink lots of prosecco and talk at inordinate length and to no great purpose about their very ordinary relationships, then this is the play for you! If not, give it a miss.
REVIEW: School Play, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
With its strong cast, impeccable design, timely subject matter and a solid script, School Play could easily become one of the surprise gems of 2017. Now is the time to see it.
REVIEW: Promises Promises, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
this is the ‘must-see’ show of the moment, with a glamorous audience hurrying to get in on the fun. And, yes, ultimately it keeps its promises. All of them.
Casting Announced For School Play At Southwark Playhouse
antic|face has announced casting for their upcoming production of Alex MacKeith’s School Play at Southwark Playhouse, opening on 1 February 2017 for a limited season. The cast of School Play includes Oliver Dench (Tom), Fola Evans-Akingbola (Lara), Gemma Fray (Mikaela), Kevin Howarth (David/Tony), Vida King (Mikaela) and Ann Ogbomo (Jo). The headteacher’s office of a South London Primary School is always busy. But today is results day and the phone won’t stop ringing. Jo, the headteacher of St. Barnabas, knows that the arrival of the school’s SATs results puts her job on the line. With the future of the school and its pupils at stake, Jo struggles to maintain order as her staff and superiors demand answers. Can she protect her students and herself? Alex MacKeith’s debut play asks what it means to be a Primary School teacher in contemporary Britain. This is antic | face’s third production following the successes of Hippolytos and For … Read more
REVIEW: The Tempest, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭✭
There’s no new ground broken in this interpretation, but everything done is done well and is full of clever ideas for building the world of the play with limited resources.
REVIEW: Kiki’s Delivery Service, Southwark Playhouse ✭✭✭
Once again, Southwark Playhouse’s in-house Christmas offering takes us into new territory for the festive season, providing another alternative to the usual panto tropes.
The Cardinal Comes To Southwark Playhouse
The Cardinal, James Shirley’s tragic masterpiece will be presented at the Southwark Playhouse in a new production starring Stephen Boxer in April 2017. Staged as one of the last five plays performed in England before Oliver Cromwell’s theatre ban, The Cardinal is a captivating story of a religious monster’s relentless pursuit of power. Playwright James Shirley (born 1596) was the last of the great Elizabethan dramatists linking the Golden Age with the age of Restoration. The state of Navarre is in crisis. An unscrupulous Cardinal has the ear of the King and is hungry for power. The Duchess Rosaura longs to marry the Count D’Alvarez, but the Cardinal wants her for his brutish nephew. To tighten his grip on the Kingdom, the ruthless Cardinal will stop at nothing to secure the marriage. But in the Duchess it seems he has finally met his match… The Cardinal will star Stephen Boxer … Read more
