Category: Theatre Reviews

March 5, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, February 24 7/10 Young Frankenstein is like a rickety slatted bridge, with hilarity the destination and the bottomless abyss of inanity always lurking beneath. Time and time again, a slat breaks, we plunge into silliness, and claw for a grip on the bridge of laughs. Anyone who enjoyed…

February 22, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Flight Path Theatre, February 4 7.5/10 Had Sam Shepard been a boxer, he may well have fvoured removing the gloves. His writing has a rawness seldom matched in drama, so words become weapons that open wounds old and new, while his characters are bruised and scarred by each other and…

February 19, 2021 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

York Theatre, February 3 7.5/10 Disclaimer one: I didn’t see Fangirls at Belvoir in 2019. More fool me. Disclaimer two: I was never a 14-year-old girl, and after seeing this, perhaps I missed out there, too. Then again, the fangirl phenomenon is pretty universal: from the crackpots at the last-gasp…