Play Reviews

2022 Play Reviews 

Who's Holiday at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
Doubt at the Chichester Festival Theatre ★★★★ 
Ava: The Secret Conversations at the Riverside Studios ★★★★
Still Life at the Mill at Sonning ★★★★★

2021 Play Reviews 

Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of) at the Criterion Theatre ★★★★★
Stuck with You online at Graeae ★★★
Terence Rattigan's All On Her Own starring Janie Dee ★★★★
Good Grief, starring Sian Clifford and Nikesh Patel ★★★★
Suitcase Under the Stairs at the Greenwich Theatre (Online) ★★★
Good Day Bad Day By Karen Featherstone online at Graeae ★★★
Heads or Tails for the Living Record Festival Online ★★★
The Gift online at Graeae ★★★★★
Broken Link for the Living Record Festival Online ★
Finney’s Ghost for the Living Record Festival Online ★★★★★
Flowers for the Chateaux online at Graeae ★★★★
Ram of God for the Living Record Festival Online ★★★★★
The Noise Next Door for the Living Record Festival Online ★★
This Little World for the Living Record Festival ★★★★
Always On My Mind for the Living Record Festival ★★★★
How do you make a cup of tea? Online at Graeae ★★★★

2020 Play Reviews

Death Drop at the Garrick Theatre ★★★
A Christmas Carol at the Watermill Theatre ★★★★
Tales From the Front Line… And Other Stories, Talawa (on Youtube) ★★★★★
Blackeyed Theatre's Jane Eyre (Online) ★★★★
Unfamiliar at Home, The Place, Bedford (Online) ★★★
Hoard: Rediscovered at the New Vic (Online) ★★★★
Ghosts of Stanley Halls at The Stanley Halls ★★★
Woyzeck at Theatro Technis ★★
Educating Rita at the Minack Theatre, Cornwall ★★★★
The Hound of the Baskervilles at the Watermill Theatre ★★
Bin Juice at The Vaults ★★★
Love Love Love at the Lyric Hammersmith ★★★
The Kite Runner at the Richmond Theatre ★★★★★
Waiter, There’s a Murder in my Soup at Studio 5ive, Troubadour Wembley Park ★★★★
Relatively Speaking at the Mill at Sonning ★★★★

A Midsummer Night Dream at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury ★★★
The Dog Walker at the Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★
The Strange Tale of Charlie Chaplin and Stan Laurel at HOME, Manchester ★★★

Time and Tide at the Park Theatre ★★★★★
One Million Tiny Plays About Britain at the Watermill Theatre ★★★
Ghost Stories at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking ★★★★★
Santi and Naz at the Vaults ★★★★
FourPlay at the Above the Stag Theatre ★★★
Peter Pan Goes Wrong at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking ★★★★
Shackleton and his Stowaway at the Park Theatre ★★ 
Coming Clean at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★


2019 Play Reviews

Poisoned Polluted at the Old Red Lion ★★★★
Sydney and the Old Girl at the Park Theatre ★★★
Cyrano de Bergerac at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury ★★★
A Prayer for Wings at the King’s Head Theatre ★★
Chemistry at the Finborough Theatre ★★★★
Gaslight at the Playground Theatre ★★★
Afterglow at Waterloo East ★★★
Solaris at the Lyric Hammersmith ★★★★
The Girl on the Train at the Churchill Theatre, Bromley ★★★★
One Man Two Guvners at the Nuffield Southampton Theatre ★★★
Ghost Stories at the Ambassadors Theatre ★★★★
Gaslight at the Watford Palace Theatre ★★★
Noises Off at the Garrick theatre ★★★★★
Valued Friends at the Rose Theatre, Kingston ★★
The Life I Lead at the Wyndham's Theatre ★★★★★
A Doll's House at the Lyric Hammersmith ★★★★
The Strange Case of Jekyll and Hyde at the Brockley Jack Theatre ★★★★
The Son at the Duke of York's Theatre ★★★★
Torch Song at the Turbine Theatre ★★★★
World's End at the King's Head Theatre ★★★★
Macbeth at the Temple Church ★★★★
The Weatherman at the Park Theatre ★★★
Towards Zero at The Mill at Sonning ★★★★
Hunchback of Notre Dame at St Pauls Church Gardens ★★★★
Equus at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★★
The Indecent Musings of Miss Doncaster 2007 at the Camden People's Theatre ★★★★

One Giant Leap at the Brockley Jack Theatre ★★★★
Game for Lovers at the Vaults ★★★
Our Church at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury ★★★★
Holy Land at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre ★★
Captain Corelli's Mandolin at the Harold Pinter Theatre ★★★★
Shadows at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★★
Dark Sublime at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
The Censor at The Hope Theatre ★★★★
A Thousand Splendid Suns at the Nuffield Southampton Theatres ★★★★
Hamlet at the St. Pauls Church in Covent Garden ★
A Midsummer Nights Dream at the Arundel & Ladbroke Gardens ★★★★★
Sweat at the Gielgud Theatre ★★★
Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare: Hamlet at the Leicester Square Theatre ★★
Napoli, Brooklyn at the Park Theatre ★★★★★
Afterglow at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
The Upsetters at the Bunker Theatre
The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre ★★★★
The Audience at the Nuffield Southampton ★★★★
River in the Sky at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre ★★
All I See is You at the Hope Mill Theatre ★★★★
Dead Dog in a Suitcase (and other Love Songs) at the Lyric Hammersmith ★★★★
Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons at the Barons Court Theatre ★★★★★
Miss Julie at the Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★
Creditors at the Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★★
My Fairfield Lady at The Royal Court, Liverpool ★★
Hell Yes I’m Tough Enough at the Park Theatre ★
The House on Cold Hill at the New Victoria Theatre, Woking ★
Brawn at the King's Head Theatre ★★★
Shit-faced Shakespeare: The Taming of the Shrew at the Leicester Square Theatre ★★★
Tumulus at the Soho Theatre ★★★★★
Ghost Stories at the Lyric Hammersmith ★★★★
Witness for the Prosecution at London's County Hall ★★★★
Half Me, Half You at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★
Emilia at the Vaudeville Theatre ★★★★★
The Rubenstein Kiss at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★
Undetectable at the King’s Head Theatre ★★★★
Macbeth at the Watermill ★★★★
We're Staying Right Here at the Park Theatre ★★★★
Do You Love This Planet? at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★★
Abigail’s Party at New Victoria Theatre, Woking ★
As a Man Grows Younger at the Brockley Jack ★★★★
Jesus Hopped the ‘A’ Train at the Young Vic ★★★★
Agnes Colander at the Jermyn Street Theatre ★★
I Would Like to Get to Know You at the Crescent, Vault Festival ★★★
Benidorm at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★
Fight Night at the Vault Festival ★★★★
Open at the Vaults Festival ★★
Coming Clean at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
An Enemy of the People at the Union Theatre ★★★★

2018 Play Reviews

Cuckoo at the Soho Upstairs, Soho Theatre ★★★★
Chutney at the Bunker Theatre ★★★★
Sexy Laundry at the Tabard Theatre ★★
Billy Bishop Goes to War at the Jermyn Street Theatre ★★
A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre ★
Honour at Park Theatre ★★★★★
The Wider Earth at the Natural History Museum ★★★
The Trench at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★
Henry II at the Reading Minster of St Mary the Virgin, Reading ★★★
othellomacbeth at the Lyric Hammersmith ★★★
A Funny Thing Happened... at the Finborough Theatre ★★★★
The Height of the Storm at The Theatre Royal Bath ★★★
The Other Place at the Park Theatre ★★★★★
Trial By Laughter at Watermill, Newbury ★★★
Eyam at Shakespeare’s Globe ★★★
The Distance at the Park Theatre ★★★★
High Ridin’ at the Kings Head Theatre in Islington ★★★
Blood Wedding at Omnibus Theatre, Clapham ★★★★
Dust at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
Abi at the Queen's Theatre in Hornchurch ★★★★
Abigail’s Party at the Queen's Theatre in Hornchurch ★★★
That Girl at the Old Red Lion ★★★★
Rain Man at the Windsor Theatre Royal ★★★★
Much Ado about Nothing at Gray’s Inn Hall ★★★★
Copenhagen at the Chichester Festival Theatre ★★★★★
The Three Musketeers at St Paul's Church, Covent Garden ★★★★
War Horse at New Victoria Theatre, Woking ★★★★★
Stardust at Pleasance Dome (10Dome) (2018) ★★★★★
King Lear at Duke of Yorks Theatre ★★★★★
The White Rose at The Brockley Jack Theatre ★★★★★
Two for the Seesaw at the Trafalgar Studios 2 ★★★
Much Ado About Nothing at the Verulamium Roman Theatre ★★★
As You Like It at Regent’s Park, Open Air Theatre ★★★★★
Locked Up at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★
The Lieutenant of Inishmore at the Noel Coward Theatre ★★★★
Flesh and Bone at the Soho Theatre ★★★★★
For King and Country at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
Sh*tfaced Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet at the Leicester Square Theatre ★★★★
Jerusalem at the Watermill, Newbury ★★★★★
Daisy Pulls it Off at the Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★
Section 2 at The Bunker ★★★★★
I am of Ireland at the Red lion Pub, Islington ★★★
Killer Joe at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
Adam and Eve at the Hope Theatre ★★★
An Ideal Husband at the Vaudeville Theatre ★★★★
Red at the Wyndhams Theatre ★★★
Knock Knock at the EM Forster Studio ★★★★
Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre ★★★★★
The Final adventure of Frankie Fightwell at the Putney Arts Theatre ★★★★
Macbeth at the National Theatre ★★★
Building the Wall at the Park Theatre ★★★★★
Grotty at The Bunker ★★★★
The Gulf at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★★★
Move over Mrs Markham at the Mill at Sonning ★★
Burke and Hare at the Watermill Theatre ★★★
Gauhar Jaan, The Datia Incident at Omnibus Theatre ★★★★
Moormaid at the Arcola Theatre ★★★★
Plastic at The Old Red Lion ★★★★★
Coconut at the Ovalhouse ★★★★★
Mary Stuart at Theatre Royal Bath ★★★★
Quiz at the Noël Coward Theatre ★★★★
Périclès, Prince de Tyr at the Silk Street Theatre, Barbican ★★
Harold & Maude at The Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★
A Streetcar Named Desire at the Southampton Nuffield ★★★
Brief Encounter at the Empire Cinema Haymarket ★★★
The Country Wife at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★
Mirrors at Leicester Square Theatre Lounge ★★★★
Will or Eight Lost Years of Young William Shakespeare's Life at the Rose Playhouse ★★
Julius Ceaser National Theatre Live Broadcast ★★★
Pressure at the Richmond Theatre ★★★
The Rivals at the Watermill Theatre, Newbury ★★★
The Cherry Orchard at the Union Theatre ★★★★
This House at the Cambridge Arts ★★★★
Birdsong at New Victoria Theatre, Woking ★★★
The Dog Beneath the Skin at the Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★
Good Girl at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
Ballistic at the Kings Head Theatre ★★★★
Curtains at the Rose Theatre in Kingston ★★★
The Hound of Baskervilles at Mill at Sonning ★★
Harold and Maude at the Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★
Dust at the Soho Theatre ★★★★
A Passage to India at the Park Theatre ★★★★
Party Skills for the End of the World at the Shoreditch Town Hall ★★★★★
Strangers on a Train at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★
The Shadow Factory at the Nuffield Southampton Theatres ★★★★★
Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde at the Rose Theatre, Kingston ★★★
Boys at the Vaults Theatre ★★★★★
Statements at the Bread and Roses Theatre ★★★★★
Think of England at the Vaults ★★★
Fool For Love at the Courtyard Theatre ★★★★
Cyril's Success at the Finborough Theatre ★★★★
Bobby's Bay at the Finborough Theatre ★★★
A Girl in a School Uniform (Walks into a Bar) at the New Diorama Theatre ★★★
Julius Caeser at The Bridge Theatre ★★★★★
The Grift at the Town Hall Hotel ★★★★
Ken at the Bunker ★★★★
Hedda Gabler at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★
There or Here at the Park Theatre ★★★
Mary Stuart at the Duke Of York's Theatre ★★★★
Woman Before a Glass at Jermyn Street Theatre ★★★★
Bunny at Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★★★
Network at the National Theatre ★★★★★
East at the Kings Head Theatre ★★★★
The Crystal Egg Live at The Vaults ★★★

2017 Play Reviews

A Christmas Carol at the Middle Temple Hall ★★★★★
The Book of Darkness and Light at the Camden's People Theatre ★★★
The Borrowers at the Watermill Theatre ★★★
Twelfth Night at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-Upon-Avon ★★★
Hiding Heidi at Etcetera Theatre ★★★
The Tailor Made Man at the White Bear theatre ★★★★
Am I Dead Yet? at the Soho Theatre ★★★
The Retreat at the Park Theatre ★★
The Red Lion at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
Trestle at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★
Joy at Gerry's at Theatre Royal Stratford East ★★★★★
People, Places and Things at the Bristol Old Vic Theatre ★★★★
Milk Under Wood at the Windmill Theatre in Newbury ★★★★
Lady from the Sea at the Donmar Warehouse ★★★★
Fishskin Trousers at Park 90 ★★
Secret Keeper at The Ovalhouse ★★★
Oslo at the Harold Pinter Theatre ★★★★★
Labour of Love at the Noel Coward Theatre ★★★★
The Woman in Black at the Fortune Theatre ★★★★
You Forgot the Mince at the Courtyard Theatre ★★★
Wipers Times at the Richmond Theatre ★★★
Le Grand Mort at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★
Story Jam at the Albany Theatre in Deptford ★★★★
The Test at the White Bear Theatre ★★★
Picture of Dorian Gary at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury ★★★★
Dolphins and Sharks at the Finborough Theatre ★★★★
The Knowledge at the Charing Cross Theatre ★★★★
ISHQ at Sadler's Wells ★★
Doubt, A Parable at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
Dante's Divine Comedy at the Barons Court Theatre ★★★★
Talk Radio at the Old Red Lion Theatre ★★★★
Adam and Eve at the Jack Studio Theatre ★★
Hamlet at Park 90 ★★★
Loot at the Park Theatre ★★★★
Richard III at the Temple Church ★★★★
A Rat in a Box at the Courtyard Theatre ★★★★
Olympilads at Theatre N16 ★★★★
Horrible Histories at the Garrick Theatre ★★★★
Apologia at the Trafalgar Studios ★★★★
Bump! at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★★★
Flood at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★★
Americas No1 Detective at the Drayton Arms Theatre ★★★★
The Hunting of the Snark at the Vaudeville Theatre ★★★★
The Staff Room at The Bunker Theatre ★★★
Tiresia at the Etcetera Theatre ★★★★
House of America at Jack Studio Theatre ★★★★
Macbeth at St Paul's Church ★★★★
The Kite Runner at The Playhouse Theatre ★★★★★
Mr Gillie at the Finborough Theatre ★★
The Enchanted at the Bunker ★★★
The Quentin Dentin show at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★★
I Know You go Old at the Hope Theatre ★★★★
Groomed at the Soho Theatre ★★★★★
Held at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★
Jane Eyre at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★★
Tom Moineaux at the Jack Studio Theatre ★★★
Jam at the Finborough Theatre ★★★
My World Has Exploded a Little Bit at Ovalhouse ★★★★
Blush at Soho Theatre ★★★★★
Othello at Wilton's Music Hall ★★★★
Voices from Chernobyl at Brockley Jack Theatre ★★★
Romeo and Juliet at the Union Theatre ★★
Idle Women of the Wartime Waterways at Cruising Association of Limehouse ★★★
Romeo and Juliet at Greenwich Theatre ★★★★★
The Woman in Black at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★
Threads at Hope theatre ★★★
Joan at Ovalhouse ★★★★
Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing at Leicester Square Theatre ★★★★
Macbeth at the Jack Studio Theatre ★★★★★
Posh at the Pleasance Theatre ★★★★
Finders Keepers at the Park 90 theatre ★★★
Escape the Scaffold at Theatre503 ★★★★
Chinglish at the Park Theatre ★★★★
Kicked in the Sh*tter at the Hope Theatre ★★★★
Natives at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
A Woman Alone at the Etcetera Theatre ★★★★
The Eisteddford at the Etcetera Theatre ★
Big Guns at the Yard ★★★
Dog Ends at the Tabard Theatre ★★
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead at the Old Vic ★★★★
The Full Monty at the Alhambra Bradford ★★★
Threesome at the Union Theatre ★★★★
A Judgement in Stone at the Buxton Opera House
Bad Seed at the Jack Studio Theatre ★★★★
Shirley Valentine at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★
Handbagged at the Jack Studio Theatre ★★★★
The Lock in at the Vaults Festival ★★★
Cailleach Og Pleasance Theatre, Islington Industry Showcase ★★★
Speech and Debate at Trafalgar Studios 2 ★★★★
How (Not) to Live in Suburbia at the Soho Theatre ★★★★
The White Devil at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at the Globe ★★★★
Dead Simple at The Mill at Sonning ★★
Gaslight at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★
The Wild Party at the Hope Theatre ★★
Convert at the Gate Theatre ★★★★★
He(Art) at the Theatre N16 ★★★
Abigail at The Bunker ★★★★
The Depraved Appetite of Tarrare the Freak at Wilton Music Hall ★★★
The Miser at the Garrick Theatre ★★★★
Pandora at the Pleasance Theatre ★★★
Frankenstein at Wilton's Music Hall ★★★★
Faustx2 at the Watermill Theatre in Newbury ★★★★
The Diary of a Teenage Girl at the Southwark Playhouse ★★★★
In Other Words at the Hope Theatre ★★★★

2016 Play Reviews

Emerge at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★★
Fool for Love at Found 111 ★★★★
Airswimming at The Vaults ★★★★
Pride and Prejudice at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★
No's Knife at the Old Vic Theatre ★★★
Bit of Sunshine at the Theatre 503 ★★★
Paradise of Assassins at the Tara Theatre ★★
Macbeth at Redbridge Drama Centre ★★★★
In Our Hands at the New Diorama Theatre ★★★★
The Painkiller at the Garrick Theatre ★★★★

2015 Play Reviews

Shawshank Redemption at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★
Lord of the Flies at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★
Twelfth Night at the Space Theatre ★★★
East is East at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★
Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★
The Kings Speech at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★
The Full Monty at the New Victoria Theatre in Woking ★★★★
New Atlantis at the Crystal ★★★★

2014 Play Reviews 


Beeched at the Soho Theatre ★★★
Shoot, I didn't mean that / The last days of Mankind at the Tristan Bates Theatre ★★★
Long Story Short at the Charing Cross Theatre ★★
Ghosts From A Perfect Place at the Arcola Theatre ★★★★
Great Britain at the Theatre Royal Haymarket ★★★★
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at the Gielgud Theatre ★★★★★
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