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Feb 5, 20233 min read

Review of The Unfriend at Criterion Theatre - Stellar cast performances do not rescue banal writing

Rated 🍯🍯 On a cruise holiday, an English couple — Peter and Debra — meets an annoyingly talkative middle-aged American woman called...

Jan 31, 20233 min read

Review of We Didn't Come to Hell for the Croissants at Riverside Studios - Delightfully subversive

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 When the bee stumbled upon ‘We didn’t come to hell for the croissants’, a wonderful one-woman play at Riverside Studios, it...

Jan 19, 20234 min read

Review of Dare You Say Please at King's Head Theatre - An intricately layered mindbender

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 In a dystopian society, you live freely until you turn 25. Then, you're forced into a room with a fellow 25-year old and...

Jan 16, 20233 min read

Review of Hex at the National Theatre - Lisa Lambe delivers an outstanding performance

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Three things stand out in the National Theatre's production of Hex, the acclaimed adaptation of the classic fairytale,...

Jan 10, 20234 min read

Review of Allegiance at Charing Cross Theatre - Bombastic musical does little justice to its cause

Rated 🍯🍯 "A Jap's a Jap" In the aftermath of Imperial Japan's attack on Pearl Harbor, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, fearing a...

Oct 20, 20224 min read

Review of The Moors at The Hope Theatre - Brilliant, terrifying, unforgettable

Rated 🍯🍯🍯🍯 Jen Silverman’s The Moors is among the vanguard of spooky plays that have hit London’s theatres for Halloween season. Just...

Oct 19, 20224 min read

Review of The Canterville Ghost at Southwark Playhouse - Spooktacularly funny

Rated 🍯🍯🍯 What's not to love about a play within a play within a play? The charming cast of the latest Southwark Playhouse production...