Jonny Ward
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Jonny Ward reviews the European premiere of CRY HAVOC at London’s Park Theatre
Cry Havoc ☆☆☆☆ Park Theatre Is there a right way to care? Can you love in the wrong way? Cry Havoc looks at these questions and more as the play opens to reveal a shabby but cultured room in Cairo, with books lining the floors and intricately carved wooden panels casting shadows on the…
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Goodbye Norma Jeane : the story of the man who made Marilyn Monroe
Goodbye Norma Jeane ☆☆☆☆☆ Above the Stag Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson) died of an overdose on 5th August 1962 in Los Angeles at the age of 36 and this astonishing production is set during that torrid summer’s day. Jack Cole (played by Tim English) wakes up to this news on his sofa…
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Jonny Ward falls in love with the optimism in UNDETECTABLE “an extraordinary new play” by Tom Wright
UNDETECTABLE ☆☆☆☆☆ KINGS HEAD THEATRE It is extraordinary to think that perhaps within the living memory of some fellow theatregoers, that the Lord Chamberlain would have censored the very concept of Undetectable, let alone the practical reality of it on stage. A Taste of Honey (Royal Court Theatre 1958) apparently caused a furore amongst…
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Jonny Ward is enamoured with Pippa Winslow’s stand out performance in STRIKE UP THE BAND
Strike Up The Band ☆☆☆ Upstairs at the Gatehouse It has to be one of the more unusual topics for a musical: a quintessential American business magnate (making cheese – for comedy value!) manipulates the US Government into war with tiny neutral Switzerland in order to protect his profits. As the programme notes suggest…
