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PIPPIN – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – we’ve got Magic To Do…..
PIPPIN Music and Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz Book by Roger O. Hirson Directed by Steven Dexter Charing Cross Theatre – until 14 August https://charingcrosstheatre.co.uk/theatre/pippin Thanks to Broadway master showman Bob Fosse who directed and choreographed the legendary original production, Pippin was perceived for decades as a deathly commedia dell’arte carnival: a troupe of sinister but […]
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BE MORE CHILL – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – a deceptively well crafted crowd-pleaser
BE MORE CHILL Music and lyrics by Joe Iconis Book by Joe Tracz Based on the novel by Ned Vizzini Directed by Stephen Brackett Shaftesbury Theatre – until 5 September https://www.bemorechillmusical.com/?gclid=CjwKCAjw_o-HBhAsEiwANqYhp34Cj6fcTNItFoRGd86XPch4DCOIG3YT57GP3jxSuKdbWQFyzrAnKBoC440QAvD_BwE Young Adult fiction is a beloved and lucrative literary genre. If there were an acknowledged theatrical equivalent – and if such a thing existed, […]
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STAIRCASE – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – an overlooked gay play is meticulously revived
STAIRCASE by Charles Dyer directed by Tricia Thorns for Two’s Company Southwark Playhouse – until 17 July https://www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show-whats-on/staircase/ If you haven’t done your research, you might think that “gay plays” generally fall into two camps (no pun intended): either heartwarming, spiky but ultimately feel-good tales like Harvey Fierstein’s Torch Song, Jonathan Harvey’s Beautiful Thing and […]
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seven methods of killing kylie jenner – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – it’s a bit of a thrill-ride
SEVEN METHODS OF KILLING KYLIE JENNER by Jasmine Lee-Jones directed by Milli Bhatia Royal Court Theatre – until 27July https://royalcourttheatre.com/whats-on/sevenmethods/ Channelling your white hot rage into a work of art is an incredibly powerful act, and it feels like that is exactly what Jasmine Lee-Jones has done in this ambitious, dynamic piece. Ostensibly, it’s the […]
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BACH & SONS – ⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Simon Russell Beale is Johann Sebastian
BACH & SONS by Nina Raine directed by Nicholas Hytner Bridge Theatre – until 11 September https://bridgetheatre.co.uk/whats-on/bach-and-sons/ Music is a potent life force, a non-verbal language capable of cutting right to the heart of an emotion or memory. Nina Raine’s richly engrossing new play also suggests that music can be weaponised, especially by those in […]
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J’OUVERT – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – the Re:Emerge season continues with an absolute firecracker
by Yasmin Joseph Directed by Rebekah Murrell as part of the Re:Emerge season Harold Pinter Theatre – until 3 July https://sfp-reemergeseason.com/the-plays/jouvert/jouvert-ticket-calendar/#/ Part celebration, part social document, part history lesson, total triumph, Yasmin Joseph’s gorgeous piece, in Rebekah Murrell’s rambunctious production, tears up the rule book for playwriting in much the same way that Sonia Friedman’s […]
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THE HUMAN CONNECTION – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – a tantalisingly ambiguous double bill
Written and directed by Eugene O’Hare Omnibus Theatre until 4 July 2021 https://www.omnibus-clapham.org/the-human-connection/ Eugene O’Hare is truly an actor’s writer, in that he creates richly textured, multi-layered characters that give his casts something to really get their thespian gnashers into: see Miriam Margolyes’s venomously nasty yet oddly haunting old lady in Sydney And The Old […]
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SHEDDING A SKIN – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – Award-winning new writing
Written and performed by Amanda Wilkin Directed by Elayce Ismail Soho Theatre until 17 July https://sohotheatre.com/shows/shedding-a-skin/ At a time when Black voices are joyously, if belatedly and still insufficiently, resounding throughout the theatrical community, it is befitting that this powerhouse of new writing reopens with Amanda Wilkin’s spiky but beguiling monologue, winner of the 2020 […]
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REASONS YOU SHOULD(N’T) LOVE ME – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ – salty, sweet and satisfying
REASONS YOU SHOULD(N’T) LOVE ME Written and performed by Amy Trigg Directed by Charlotte Bennett Kiln Theatre – until 12 June https://kilntheatre.com/whats-on/reasons-you-shouldnt-love-me/# Amy Trigg has already won the 2020 Women’s Prize for Playwrighting for this sparky, bracingly honest monologue (which she also performs, brilliantly), and I wouldn’t be remotely surprised if she garners a couple […]
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WALDEN – ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️- the Re:Emerge season kicks off in the West End
WALDEN by Amy Berryman Directed by Ian Rickson as part of the Re:Emerge season Harold Pinter Theatre – until 12 June https://sfp-reemergeseason.com/the-plays/walden/walden-ticket-calendar/#/ Gotta hand it to Sonia Friedman, she doesn’t mess about. As the theatre industry slowly, carefully makes it’s way back into the light, one could completely understand producers playing it safe post-pandemic and […]
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