IMOGENÉ: the improvised pop concert ☆☆☆ Vault Festival, London If the ghost of Catherine Tate’s interpreter (the one who thinks she can speak any language if she can hit the vowels with an accent ) was resurrected as a pop star to haunt those who voted for Brexit the result might be the international pop … Continue reading
Rose: You Are Who You Eat ☆☆☆☆☆ GUGGENHEIM. NY This brilliant energetic 75-minute nonstop performance often hilarious, thought-provoking, moving, with just enough audience perception has you wanting to see it again and again. John Jarboe’s story comes full circle on stage as she erotically tastefully strips down to her Calvin’s and I’m not … Continue reading
Grotty is the study of the sexual mores of lesbian London seen through the eyes of Rigby (played by playwright Izzy Tennyson). Rigby has her work cut out juggling romantic liaisons, maintaining friendships with the more hip and cooler lesbians as well as her job as an intern. We follow her on her Everyman … Continue reading
JOCK NIGHT ☆☆☆☆☆ Hope Theatre Company King’s Head, Islington, London Adam Zane’s background is in verbatim theatre, and that commitment to verisimilitude is on clear display in his first full-length non-verbatim play, JOCK NIGHT. In the programme notes he details the months of researching chemsex, interviewing men whose lives have been affected by it. … Continue reading
Th’ Importance of Bein’ Earnest by Oscar Wilde ☆☆☆☆☆ Drayton Arms Theatre I must confess I had reservations about this production when I read it was to be relocated to a North Yorkshire Council Estate. Whilst I’m all for putting new wine in old bottles, if done wrong it can be a woeful disaster. … Continue reading