Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

July 1, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Eternity Playhouse, June 16 4.5/10 The French have a flair for lightness. It aerates their cooking, from choux pastry to souffle, their music from Offenbach to Satie, and even their very language, with all those silent consonants. And of course it is especially prevalent in their humour, from Voltaire to…

June 23, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Playhouse, June 12, until July 1 8/10 Assassins may be that rarity, a musical that’s still daring, edgy and innovative 28 years on, but it was instantly obvious that Bobby Fox’s fall when his character, Charles Guiteau, is hanged, was not scripted. David Campbell (playing the lead role of John…

June 11, 2018 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Old Fitzroy, May 26, until June 23 7/10 When theatre bites down hard on a subject like this you, too, are caught in its teeth. The subject is child molestation – here a euphemism for child rape. David Holthouse knows about it. At the age of seven he was raped…