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Continue reading →: A Face in the Crowd
📍The Young Vic, London ⭐⭐⭐ If you, like me, cannot resist a kitchen-sway to Elis Costello, there is a high chance you’d be charmed by the music of Young Vic’s world premiere musical ‘A Face in the Crowd’. With music by Costello, and book by Sarah Ruhl, this new musical…
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Continue reading →: The Mad Gay King
📍The King’s Head Theatre, London ⭐️⭐️⭐️ .5 🎟️ PR Invite ‘The Mad Gay King’ is a queer retelling of the life of Bavaria’s 19th century monarch King Ludwig II; a passionate exploration of a King known also as the ‘Swan’ or Fairytale’ King, in part due to the lavish funding of…
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Continue reading →: Viola’s Room
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ Rarely does a theatrical experience cause such differing interpretations and opinions by the end, but that was exactly what Viola’s Room offered myself and friends who attended Punchdrunk’s latest venture in their new South-East London warehouse venue. Known often for sprawling sets and experiences (such being the case in…
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Continue reading →: Stranger Things: The First Shadow
Phoenix Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ From the brains of the Duffer brothers comes the stage iteration of Stranger Things – a thrilling, stunning, cinematic epic of a piece. Set in 1959, The First Shadow takes us back to a setting familiar to any Stranger Things fans: Hawkins. There are names you’ll clock…
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Continue reading →: Fiddler on the Roof
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ As soon as the first resonant note of the violin pierces through the atmosphere of the outdoor theatre, prompting an immediate hush over the cheery crowds, we are transported to the small town of Anatevka; a humble place steeped in its traditions – the…

