Drama
These Shining Lives - Park Theatre
Chicago, the roaring 20s. A carefree time... or was it? Catherine is overjoyed to begin her first ever job – working with a sparkling group of women for the Radium Dial Company. Independent, happy, fulfilled. But as she masters her craft
Chimerica - Almeida Theatre
Tiananmen Square, 1989. As tanks roll through Beijing and soldiers hammer on his hotel door, Joe – a young American photojournalist – captures a piece of history. New York, 2012. Joe is covering a presidential election, marred by debate over cheap
These Shining Lives - review
Many years ago Keith Dewhurst wrote a Guardian column arguing that theatre had to move away from city centres to areas where people actually lived.
Ten Plagues - Wilton's Music Hall
The award winning song cycle Ten Plagues arrives at Wilton’s following it's hugely successful premiere at Edinburgh’s Festival Fringe in August 2011. Based on eye-witness accounts of the 1665 London Plague, Ten Plagues depicts an incredible journe
Theatre review: Mess, The Nightingale, Brighton Fringe
It has become the fashion to make musicals out of apparently untouchable subjects. The Ipswich murders in London Road , female genital mutilation in Book of Mormon and now, Mess , which makes a song and dance out of anorexia.
Fifty Words - Bath Theatre Royal
Adam is a successful New york architect. His wife, Jan is preparing to start an online company. Their beloved nine year-old son Greg (and his hamster, Smoky) is away on his first sleepover. This will be the first evening they’ve had to themselves in yea
Mayfest - Old Vic, Bristol
Way back in 2003, right here in Bristol Old Vic's Studio, a festival of physical, visual and experimental theatre was born. It was christened Mayfest and from its early days set out to celebrate artists making unusual, playful and leftfield theatre. After
These Shining Lives, Park Theatre, London N4, review
I first met Jez Bond 14 years ago when he was an exceptionally bright, keen-as-mustard drama student. I had a hunch then that I might be hearing more of him, and now here he is again, launching a spanking new £2.5 million theatre without a penny of publi
Theatre review: These Shining Lives, Park Theatre, London
The new Park Theatre in Finsbury Park, north London, is a spanking new five-star neighbourhood theatre opening with a three-star play about girls in a 1920s Chicago watch-making factory who are gradually alerted (though not by the bosses) to the dangers o