Theatre

NT Live’s Twelfth Night provides the perfect entertainment for Shakespeare’s 456th birthday in lockdown. Most notable for having the first female Malvolio in theatre history, Simon Godwin’s production is a farcical treat with a bittersweet ending. Music really is the food of love in this contemporary adaptation. Godwin’s choice of onstage musicians really draws attention […]

Pterodactyls, written by Nicky Silver, was the most absurd piece of theatre I have seen in quite some time. Theatre Group’s talented cast of five delivered the dark comedy’s problematic themes with great maturity and comedic timing, bringing light to the harrowing occurrences of this play. Alice Fox, Emily Raven-Baker, Adam Ben, Tiago Ventura and […]

As Oli very rightly states in Open Theatre’s production of Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons Lemons, “There are some things that you just can’t say in 140 words…”. He mentions wedding speeches and “epic poetry”, and I would now like to add theatre reviews to his list. After I had the ‘great’ idea to try and […]