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Oct 313 min read

Review of The Other Place at the National Theatre: Hauntingly Ambiguous or Frustratingly Elusive?

Rated 🍯🍯 Alexander Zeldin’s The Other Place at the National Theatre is a rivetingly complex piece, a play so steeped in ambiguity that...

Apr 19, 20233 min read

Review of Sugarcoat at Southwark Playhouse Borough - Bold, progressive, but lacks depth

Rated 🍯🍯 Sugarcoat is an amusing musical, but the bee was left wanting when it came to specifics The show tries to portray new and...

Mar 21, 20233 min read

Review of The Great British Bakeoff Musical at Noël Coward Theatre - A half-baked hotchpotch

Rated 🍯🍯 It is ironic that a musical tribute to a TV series about decadent desserts and sweet treats should turn out to be so tasteless...

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 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...

Jul 10, 20224 min read

Review of Oklahoma! at The Young Vic - Reinvention ruins original for uninitiated

Rated 🍯🍯 It is impossible to enjoy the Young Vic’s revival of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical Oklahoma! if one has not been exposed...

Jun 23, 20225 min read

Review - A Doll’s House Part 2 - Lacks novelty and depth

Rated 🍯🍯 If the bee had to pick its least favourite play among everything it has ever watched in London, sorry folks, but this one...