Category: On Stage

Afterglow @ Southwark Playhouse*

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show/afterglow/ Booking until: 20th July 2019 Production Photos by: Darren Bell Run time: 1hr 30mins. Trigger warnings: flashing lights, nudity. Already an acclaimed Off-Broadway hit, S. Asher Gelman’s debut play has made it’s UK premiere at the Southwark Playhouse. Afterglow is an intimate and naked (in every sense) play that…

June 12, 2019
The National Theatre Connections Festival 2019 Line Up

The largest youth theatre festival is back! The NT Connections festival takes ten new plays commission specifically for the festival and lets theatre companies from schools across the country perform them on a National stage. I attended the festival for the first time last year as a group from my sixth form were performing (you…

June 11, 2019
Kill Climate Deniers @ Pleasance Theatre*

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/kill-climate-deniers#overview Booking until: 28th June 2019 Production Photos by: Ali Wright. Run time: 1hr 30mins. Pretty much what it says on the tin, a group of – labelled – “eco terrorists” attack the Environment Minister of Australia at a Fleetwood Mac concert after she announces plans to spend tax payers…

June 10, 2019
Shows To Catch at Edinburgh Fringe 2019

Another group of performers, another Edinburgh Fringe and another year I’m unable to go. The line up looks amazing as always and I will be scrolling my social media endlessly envious of those who are going. However, this hasn’t stopped my interest and here is a small slither of what’s on offer at the Fringe…

June 8, 2019
Vincent River @ Trafalgar Studios 2*

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.atgtickets.com/shows/vincent-river/trafalgar-studios/ Booking until: 22nd June 2019 Production Photos by: Scott Rylander. Run time: 1hr 30mins Phillip Ridley’s acclaimed play Vincent River takes place over an evening where Anita, a grieving mother, comes face to face with Davey, the boy who found her son’s dead body. The play deals with themes…

May 23, 2019
Amour @ Charing Cross Theatre*

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://charingcrosstheatre.co.uk/theatre/amour Booking until: 20th July 2019 Production Photos by: Scott Rylander. Run time: 2hrs 15mins Trigger warnings: flashing lights. Set in 1950s Paris, Amour follows a shy civil servant called Dusoleil who passes his time writing letters to his mum while daydreaming about his neighbour Isabelle who is locked away…

May 10, 2019
Man of La Mancha @ London Coliseum*

Rating: ⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.londonboxoffice.co.uk/man-of-la-mancha-tickets Booking until: 8th June 2019 Production Photos by: Manuel Harlan Run time: 2hrs 30mins In this musical by Dale Wasserman we follow the author Miguel De Cervantes as he’s in prison. While waiting to be judged by the Spanish Inquisition, he tells the story of his mad knight Don…

May 3, 2019
Emilia @ The Vaudeville Theatre

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.nimaxtheatres.com/shows/emilia/ Booking until: 15th June 2019 Run time: 2hrs 30 mins After a successful sold out run at the Globe, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s fierce and fiery feminist play Emilia is currently blowing the roof off the West End and deservedly so. Emilia tells the story of poet Emilia Bassano who,…

April 29, 2019
Ain’t Misbehavin @ Southwark Playhouse*

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://southwarkplayhouse.co.uk/show/aint-misbehavin/ Booking until: 1st June 2019 Production Photos by: Pamela Raith Run time: 2hrs A piece of musical theatre that was originally conceived by Richard Maltby Jr, Ain’t Misbehavin takes the music of the iconic jazz musician/entertainer Fats Waller and uses his music to form an explosive and vibrant song…

April 27, 2019
Funeral Flowers @ The Bunker Theatre*

Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Tickets and more information: https://www.bunkertheatre.com/whats-on/funeral-flowers/about Booking until: 4th May 2019 Production Photos by: Kofi Dwaah Run time: 1hr 15 mins Trigger warnings: sexual assault, abuse. Funeral Flowers follows 17 year old Angelique, who dreams of being a florist. While she is completing her floristry course at college, she is also dealing with threats from…

April 21, 2019