Acutely pitched and incomprehensibly energetic, Hot Gay Time Machine's high camp soiree into Toby Marlow and Zak Ghazi-Torbati's sexual awakenings is intelligent, unadulteratedly obnoxious and sublimely silly. Lucy Moss, Toby Marlow and collaborator Zak Ghazi-Torbati's second West End …
Some strong performances and deliciously catty one-liners ensure The Crumple Zone is an enjoyable and inoffensive 75-minutes, but the flimsiness of the writing becomes a bit of a barrier to really feeling able to rave about …
Charles Court Opera’s alternative panto offering of 2018, Buttons: A Cinderella Story, is on the money - impressing with a talented ensemble, quality production values and enormously funny (if not-so-innocent) gags. The King's Head Theatre is …
Flux Theatre's production of Chutney is slick, stylish and self-aware - with assured direction and promising performances. I just wasn't mad about the play itself. The sanguinary premise of Reece Connolly’s Chutney is rich, both in dramatic possibility …
Laughs do come thick and fast in Fat Rascal's gender-swapped Beauty and the Beast parody - but it doesn't particularly play to individual cast members' strengths, nor seem quite as imaginative or well-oiled, as Vulvarine did. Fat Rascal's Vulvarine was …
An excellent cast - and accomplished direction - can't quite rescue the Park's revival of Honour from a text that feels dated, formulaic and self-satisfied. Joanna Murray-Smith’s Honour deconstructs an idea still perpetuated by rom-coms, Disney flicks and …
Travis Alabanza's participatory BURGERZ confronts gendered repression, structural complicity and the way they've learnt to effectively process trauma - with piercing writing, an impassioned central performance and a tricksy and intelligent structure. London-based performance artist Travis Alabanza's …
Gracefool Collective’s This Really Is Too Much comprises four extremely talented young women with incredible energy, delivering complex socio-political gendered subplots through an innovative style of spoken word, physical theatre and dance. But is the …
Mythic reimagines Persephone's story with beautiful songs, heartwarming harmonies and a show-stealing ensemble - but many characters amount to little more than stereotypes and the show's ending doesn't feel entirely thought-through. You’ll have come across the …
The King's Head Theatre's powerful and engaging modern re-imagining of Verdi's La Traviata is performed with remarkable passion and discipline. I haven't seen many operas in my time, so admittedly don't have a lot to compare the …
Focusing on the engrained and authoritarian structures that perpetuate the practice of FGM, the topic at the heart of Gloria Williams' Bullet Hole is heartbreaking and vital - but the script lacks the dramatic arc necessary …
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 …