Sarah Blanc's My Feminist Boner explores the perils of beauty standards with unwavering passion and comedy, in an abstract one-woman dance show at The Place. Exploring the perils of growing up female in a patriarchal society and …
Inventive staging, a stylish design and unanimously assured performances elevate Airlock Theatre's ERIS far beyond its source material, which could perhaps benefit from a redraft. Natalie Johnson's stylish design sets an apt tone for ERIS's fusion of the classical …
Dissecting the modern epidemic of mental illness and male suicide (and specifically the language we use to talk about it), Alex McSweeney's Distance is intelligently written, ambitious in its experimentation with form, visually immaculate and performed …
For all its intended 'eccentricity' and message of acceptance, Eugenius! is as formulaic and problematic as musicals come. If this is the 'Zoella' generation's equivalent of Rocky Horror, I'm sorry but they deserve better. A copious amount of …
Incorporating physical theatre into Lorca's thrilling play, George Richmond-Scott's modern adaptation of Blood Wedding is a lively and engrossing performance at the Omnibus Theatre. Federico García Lorca's Blood Wedding is transported to the new setting of contemporary London …
The unfortunate reality of Hamilton (Lewis) is that you smile far more looking at the poster than you do sitting through the show. Both the writing and staging just lack the dynamism necessary for it …
Hamilton meets Spice Girls meets Madame Jojo's - in Lucy Moss and Toby Marlow's electric gig-theatre piece about refusing to be reduced, or erased, to a mnemonic. Six starts with an unequivocal insight: that, institutionally no less, …
Sam Coulson's Love Lab is a punchy show telling the story of two strangers on a laborious mission to forge a meaningful connection in a world obsessed with screens, image and fakery. Coulson’s script is inspired …
A warm and precise supporting performance from Seann Miley-Moore isn't enough to save GUY: A New Musical from a slight, banal narrative and a string of stock characters. The amount of work that's gone into the …
Black Cat: Bohemia sets Underbelly's Spiegeltent alight with an impressive international line-up, an endearing and charismatic MC and plenty of real searing flames - but one too many moments feel genuinely (rather than just aesthetically) reckless …
Peter Brook may be a giant name in the theatre world, but The Prisoner shows how names do not guarantee anything when it comes to the stage. It's a short play that never seems to …
A man imitates a bird, whilst a voiceover sometimes relays factual information about the migration of the marsh warbler. Zugunruhe is a unique type of performance but really works. Named after a German term describing the migratory …