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London theatre reviews and interviews
Category: Soho theatre
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Dust – Milly Thomas. Photo: The Other Richard Alice wakes up in a hospital, staring down at her own corpse. She is now an outsider in her own life, an invisible shadow in the aftermath of her suicide. She follows her parents home, visits hers friends and cheating boyfriend, watching how her death affects them…
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The Butch Monologues (c) Christa Holka The Butch Monologues is many voices in many stories, more than 50 personal experiences in fact, told in just 60 minutes and that is part of its power. Some of the stories are just a few sentences, some last a minute or so but all have been collected by…
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Belarus Free Theatre productions aren't for the faint-hearted or those seeking a nice linear narrative. This production, in particular, is a physical, poetic, brutal and raw mixture of performance art, verbatim narrative, film archive, audience interaction – and a conversation in the toilets at the Kremlin. Maria Alyokhina, one of two members of Pussy Riot jailed…
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Seemed appropriate to be watching a play about gay relationships in Soho while the Pride celebrations were cranking up in the streets outside. In John Fitzpatrick's play Gar (Lewis Hart) is in a steady relationship with Anthony (Simon Carroll-Jones), who is house proud and hints that he wants marriage and kids. However, Gar has also…
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Idiots starts with a bit of audience interaction*. The sort of audience interaction that leaves those on the front row and aisle seats avoiding eye contact and shrinking into their seats while those sat safely in the middle rows smugly laugh on. I'd like to say that that is the least comfortable moment in this…
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Jessica Latowicki in Tonight I'm Gonna Be The Real Me. Photo: Richard Davenport Tonight I'm Gonna To Be the New Me is an intriguing title for play as it immediately raises a myriad questions about the 'me' of the piece. Is it Jessica Latowicki performing under her own name or is it her boyfriend (in…
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Bears in Space at the Soho Theatre until Aug 22 While Game of Thrones TV series fans the world over debate whether Jon Snow is really dead there is one resurrection that has definitely happened. Yes, evil King Joffrey is back or rather the actor who played him: Jack Gleeson. He was reported as saying…
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Jade Anouka in Chef courtesy of Richard Davenport The last time I saw Jade Anouka on stage she was adding tragedy to hot-headed Hotspur in the all female Henry IV at the Donmar. Here in Sabrina Mahfouz's Chef she once again gets a chance to shine, this time in a solo performance which she's reprised…
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Max Mackintosh and Buddug James Jones in Hiraeth Hiraeth definitely has a theatre first: I was offered a Welsh cake at the end of a play*. The star and co-creator of the play Buddug James Jones has a whole tupperware of them to hand out to the audience. It tells the story of Buddug who…
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Phoebe Waller-Bridge as Fleabag The Edinburgh Fringe is over and plays like Fleabag at the Soho Theatre confirm my theory for not having yet made it up there: the good stuff tends to come to London. I know, I know I should go and I will but until I can work up to it, I…