by Editor | Jul 6, 2015 | Stage
The ultimate juke box musical eschews the coy distraction of a storyline in favour of a back-catalogue of interminable brilliance Unlike the juke box musicals that have raided the back catalogue of every band from Abba to the Spice Girls, the Beatles musical Let It Be...
by Editor | May 1, 2015 | Stage
Damien Lewis, John Goodman and Tom Sturridge as low-rent hucksters rise to meet David Mamet’s masterclass in bitterness, bickering and moral bankruptcy Damien Lewis stands there, cocksure, like John Travolta in Saturday Night Fever, one foot forward, a chip on...
by Editor | Apr 5, 2015 | Stage
Shakespearean in its ambition and rhetoric, Tom Morton-Smith’s ambitious play tries to pin down the buzzing, fizzing electron that was physicist J Robert Oppenheimer, the father of the atomic bomb Playwright Tom Morton-Smith tells us he was inspired to write...
by Editor | Mar 3, 2015 | Stage
How real is virtual reality? That is the disturbing question asked by Jennifer Haley’s taut, unsettling exploration of online paedophilia The Nether is not a nice place to be. While In-world isn’t much better with its flesh-and-blood humans and...
by Editor | Jan 17, 2015 | Stage
The boss demands a sacrifice and in the ruthless corporate world there is no good and evil, just winners and losers in the unflinching Bull at the Maria, Young Vic Unless you’re happy to give up your seat to one of those standing ringside, there is no concession to...
by Editor | Nov 5, 2014 | Stage
The torment of living in a world that is threatening, jagged and strange is given full expression in this inventive and intelligent adaptation of Mark Haddon’s award-winning book. That the production is uninvolving, at least in the first half, is oddly and...
