Category: Comedy
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While the play gets off to a punchy start with plenty of laughs it doesn't feel like the focus on relationships, loneliness and the nature of friendship get sufficient purchase. Dark Sublime Trafalgar Studios: Marina Sirtis and Kwaku Mills. Photo: Scott Rylander There are two actors playing actors on stage in London at the moment…
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The eccentric inventiveness of what Little Bulb has done is thoroughly entertaining. Little Bulb Theatre: The Future, Battersea Arts Centre 2019. Photo: Adam Trigg I loved Little Bulb Theatre's last production Orpheus so much I saw it twice, so I was really excited to see their new work The Future. It projects us into the…
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Riotous in tone, occasionally chaotic but with an inventive playfulness Education, Education, Education successfully captures the optimism of the time but it isn't just nostalgia. The Wardrobe Ensemble's Education, Education, Education, Trafalgar Studios. Photo: James Bullimore It's 1997 the day after the General Election. Tony Blair has just swept Labour to victory, the UK won…
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Music and a final dance metaphorically lifts Emilia and her message onto shoulders and had the audience leaping up for a standing ovation. Clare Perkins (Emilia 3) Saffron Coomber (Emilia 1) and Adelle Leonce (3) in Emilia at the Vaudeville Theatre. Photo credit: Helen Murray. I've read reviews of Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's play Emilia that…
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Their adventures are vividly and cleverly brought to life utilising a variety of media including puppetry, acrobatics and wire work but it is the small, often background detail which richly elevates this production. Rufus Hound and David Threlfall in the Royal Shakespeare Company's Don Quixote London 2018. Photography by Manuel Harlan. It's taken two years…
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Good fun with enough laughs to carry it through. At the beginning of Australian comedian Josh Glanc's show Karma Karma Karma Karma Karma Chamedian I was reminded a little bit of a Green Day gig I went to at the Brixton Academy when the band invited members of the audience up on stage to play.…
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Director Madelaine Moore talks about Ladykiller, its charmingly murderous female lead, preparing for the Fringe and what she's looking forward to seeing. And writer Madeline Gould pops in to talk about creating murderous characters. Why is Ladykiller a must see at this year's Edinburgh Fringe? Ladykiller really is unlike any character you have seen on…
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Danny Robins new play End of the Pier is at times very funny, it touches on some important issues but I'm not sure it fully does them justice and here's why. Les Dennis & Blake Harrison (l-r) in End of the Pier at Park Theatre. Photo by Simon Annand First a bit about the play.…
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The Lieutenant of Inishmore is a deliciously dark, satirical comedy. Cards on the table: I'm a huge Martin McDonagh fan. I like the way he makes you laugh about stuff that shouldn't be funny. He takes something gruesome, cruel or amoral and pokes fun at it by making it matter of fact, part of the…
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It is a show that rolls along with laughs but leaves you with a warm fuzzy glow and a feeling that everything will be OK. Australian Sarah Kendall (Writers' Guild Best Radio Comedy 2018) is a storyteller, a philosopher and very funny. Or to put it another way, she made me laugh and she made…