When Vincent River first starts you believe that Anita (Louise Jameson Dr. Who, Eastenders) and Davey (Thomas Mahy making his London stage debut) are total strangers but the realization of familiarity dawns quickly and uneasily. This is the first time they have met although Anita has seen Davey various times at a distance since the death of her … Continue reading
‘I live here. I live here. You can’t see that, though. You can’t see it. This is where I live. Here.’ This is a tremendous revival directed by Robert Hastie (Splendour, My Night with Reg) at the Donmar in London of a play set in a remote farmhouse in Yorkshire in the sixties about family, … Continue reading
Want to buy some illusions, Slightly used, just like new? Such romantic illusions ……….. so goes the refrain to a Marlene Dietrich song….if you do then make sure you see Peter Groom in his one (wo)man show DIETRICH – NATURAL DUTY It is 1942, on the battlefields of North Africa, in a gold sequin … Continue reading
One of the many surprises in Mark St. Germain‘s biographical play about the U.S.’s most celebrated sex therapists Dr Ruth, is there not that much talk about sex at all. What his play does reveal however is the rather dark and shocking journey that this diminutive German Jewish woman took on the way to her … Continue reading
The Toxic Avenger is a new musical by Joe DiPietro and David Bryan (founding member of Bon Jovi) and is based on a cult film of the same name by Lloyd Kaufman and it seems from tonight’s audience it has a major cult following of its own. The citizens of Tromaville, New Jersey are … Continue reading