Category: Theatre Reviews – Archive

September 20, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Hayes Theatre, September 14  We all have our secret addictions, whether electric trains, absinth, bondage or Jane Austen. Baroness Bianka’s secret craving is the elixir of life itself: blood. She is, she tells us, a haemophiliac. The poor thing has been this way ever since she was knee-high to a…

September 14, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

Concourse Theatre, September 9 The second instalment of David Williamson’s Jack Manning Trilogy ups the stakes. Where Face To Face dealt with workplace vendettas and gripes via the hyper-real depiction of community conferencing, the benignly-titled A Conversation seethes around a barbarous rape and murder. Containing the raging emotions this engenders…

September 4, 2014 / Theatre Reviews - Archive

State Theatre, August 29 This was balanced on a knife-edge. The show had to draw us into the lives of its characters instantly and make us care. Had it failed a score of rock, pop and soul songs from around 45 years ago would have been interrupted by people we…