Islington Gazette • 10th February 2020 Review: Albion, Almeida Theatre A timely return for Mike Bartlett’s incisive, stirring Brexit play which examines faultlines of class and town versus country through one woman’s nostalgia for a garden.
Ham&High • 31st October 2019 The Wild Duck - Almeida Theatre There are reasons why this play might be the most personal of all of Henrik Ibsen’s works, and Robert Icke’s re-write of The Wild Duck explains in no uncertain terms.
Islington Gazette • 24th October 2019 Review – Last Orders: The Haunting Of The Old Red Lion This is about as site-specific as you can get. Earlier this year, intrepid three-piece theatre troupe the Knock Knock Club delved deep into the considerable history of Islington's Old Red Lion.
Islington Gazette • 23rd July 2019 Starved Review at Hope Theatre Two young runaways hide out in a decrepit, messy bedsit in one of Hull's roughest estates. It is a life on the margins, and yet also at the sharp-end; suffocated by the incessant pressure of trying to eke out survival through acts of petty crime.
Hampstead Highgate Express • 27th June 2019 Summer Rolls Review: Park Theatre The first British Vietnamese play, this affecting family drama is a warm and lucid take on the tensions between second generation immigrants and their parents.
Hampstead Highgate Express • 19th June 2019 Napoli, Brooklyn review at Park Theatre As the issue of immigration bounces around social media timelines and news columns like a metallic ball flung around a pinball machine, the 60s setting of Napoli, Brooklyn may well be distant for Londoners in terms of time and place, but its themes of integration, alienation, grief and repressed emotions transpose with sobering prescience.
Hackney Gazette • 4th June 2019 The Glass Menagerie at Arcola Theatre review Trying to unpick the qualities that have elevated Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie to the status of fabled modern classic is a tricky exercise.
Hampstead Highgate Express • 26th November 2018 Theatre Review: A Hero of Our Time, Arcola, Hackney Adapting a little-known Russian text from 1840 and presenting it with a fresh enough twist to seduce a 21st century audience is an imperious challenge that should be tackled by only the most intrepid of theatrical explorers.
Hampstead Highgate Express • 7th November 2018 Theatre Review: Honour, Park Theatre, Finsbury Park It all starts so promisingly. An ageing journalist warmly welcoming the rapid-fire questions of an enthusiastic young interviewer.
Islington Gazette • 3rd October 2018 Theatre Review: The Lesson, The Hope Theatre, Islington It might be obvious to point out, but one of the trademark motifs of the ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ is exaggeration.
LondonTheatre1 • 30th September 2018 POT at Stratford Circus Arts Centre | Review To delicately and sensitively document the swathes of the youth population who are cast adrift in the outliers of society is always a road laced with difficulties.
Islington Gazette • 27th August 2018 Review: Skin In The Game at Old Red Lion Theatre If you are sensitive to a profane tongue, you might want to skip past the expletive-licious charms of Skin in the Game. Or at least cover your ears a bit.
LondonTheatre1 • 12th August 2018 Spiral By Abigail Hood at Park Theatre, London | Review Doubt, trust and suspicion may be themes that have been exhaustively plundered and explored in theatre since time immemorial, but rarely are they executed with quite such panache as that depicted in Abigail Hood’s powerful play, Spiral.
LondonTheatre1 • 9th August 2018 Mowgli by by Abiku Theatre Company at Brunel Museum, London | Review The beauty of theatre is that affords a visceral platform for collaboration to come alive in front of a patron’s eyes. And it is this very notion that perpetuates an intricate set of foundations for a work to either succeed or fail.
Hackney Gazette • 25th May 2018 Review: Shoreditch Town Hall, Education, Education, Education Set in the giddy aftermath of New Labour’s election to power, when the perma-grinned spectacle of Tony Blair beamed from every newspaper and television screen, Edinburgh Fringe festival award-winner Education, Education, Education brings its Britpop-heavy soundtrack to an East London stage.
London West End Theatre Tickets • 24th May 2018 The Chess Player at OSO Arts Centre | Review A Nazi prison. Solitary confinement. Insanity. Chess. If one were to list the bare bones of an outline to tickle interest, there would be few to compete with the intriguing outline of Stefan Zweig’s The Chess Player.
Islington Gazette • 14th May 2018 Theatre review: Worth A Flutter, Hope Theatre, Islington Hollyoaks star Paul Danan and glamour model Lucy Pinder give good performances in this raucous satire of lad culture.
Hackney Gazette • 9th May 2018 Theatre Review: Not Talking, Arcola Theatre, Hackney Some theatrical endeavours ooze class from every pore. From the moment the lights go down and the action fires up, you know you are in a pair of trusty, safe old hands.
Islington Gazette • 2nd May 2018 Four star review: Tumbletuck King’s Head Theatre When it comes to gender representation in the theatre, the statistics speak of a galling reality. Although 65 percent of theatregoers are women, only a paltry 28 percent of plawrights are female.
LondonTheatre1 • 14th March 2018 Review of Inauguration at Sprint Festival at Camden People’s Theatre Oh, the modern world. Oh, these modern times. Forgive the hint of resignation, but common consensus is that this is the age where satirists have found themselves unexpectedly floundering at their own keyboards, struggling to tap out a work that is a step or two ahead of the absurd pantomime of the political arena. It is into this contemporary climate that Rhiannon Brace has injected a topical piece of physical theatre focusing on the plethora of dubiously sexist outbursts emitted from the mouth