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 …
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, …