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A Full Plate poster showing Elaine Kline resting her face in her hands beside a collage of mental-health imagery.

17Aug

Plays

Review: A Full Plate, Rosemary Branch Theatre

Elaine Kline’s autobiographical one-woman show A Full Plate combines humour, projected visuals and candid storytelling to explore her experiences of anxiety, OCD and PTSD from childhood into adulthood.

by Robert Cope 24 0

Are You There Mother? poster showing overlapping portraits of Thomas Carruthers, including Martha in a red wig and glasses

14Aug

Plays

Review: Are You There Mother?, Hen & Chickens Theatre

Thomas Carruthers writes and performs this darkly comic one-man play about a struggling actor whose attempt to comfort a grieving woman through deception takes an increasingly unsettling turn. At the Hen & Chickens Theatre, comedy, grief and questions of identity become disturbingly entangled.

by Robert Cope 87 0

Jack in the Box Camden Fringe poster showing a jester figure against a red background

05Aug

Plays

Review: Jack in the Box, Lion & Unicorn Theatre

Rudra Bharadwaj’s solo play turns the relentless routines of unpaid care into a psychologically charged portrait of love, resentment, guilt and carer burnout.

by Robert Cope 168 0

Landscape poster for When You Are a Tick by Sofya Krasnova, with “TICK” formed from white human and insect silhouettes against a vivid green, black and magenta collage.

29Jul

Plays

Review: When You Are a Tick, The Hope Theatre

Sofya Krasnova’s When You Are a Tick is a restless philosophy-punk comedy blending live music, physical theatre and puppet testimonies to explore radicalisation, isolation and how grievance can harden into dangerous ideology.

by Robert Cope 434 0

Landscape poster for Have You Took The Bins Out? at Drayton Arms Theatre, showing a black bin bag against a bright pink background with show dates and venue details.

25Jul

Plays

Review: Have You Took The Bins Out?, Drayton Arms Theatre

Have You Took The Bins Out? at Drayton Arms Theatre is Orson Bourne’s raw and ambitious debut play about care experience, class, shame, parenthood and the fragile idea of home, staged by Lamp Light Theatre Company.

by Robert Cope 239 0

Ezo Sarıcı and Deniz Cengiz of Duo Ekeš receiving applause at St Pancras Clock Tower

21Jul

Concerts Classical Music

Review: Duo Ekeš Live in London

Duo Ekeš bring expressive violin and piano playing, warmth and playful humour to an intimate concert in the remarkable surroundings of St Pancras Clock Tower.

by Robert Cope 254 0

Promotional poster for Mr Thrushby’s Adventure at Greenwich Theatre Studio, 28 July 2026

21Jul

News

Mr Thrushby’s Adventure comes to Greenwich Theatre for rehearsed reading

Following a five-star reception at Theatre Royal Windsor, Esme Waters’ wartime crime caper Mr Thrushby’s Adventure comes to Greenwich Theatre Studio for a one-off rehearsed reading on Tuesday 28th July 2026.

by Robert Cope 127 0

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15Jul

Plays

Review: The Swan, The Werewolf and Gianpiero, COLAB Theatre

A dark, tango-infused comedy in which a volatile backstage breakup is seized upon by an egotistical director and transformed into a gloriously unstable theatrical spectacle of jealousy, manipulation and escalating chaos.

by Robert Cope 217 0

the-producers-garrick-theatre-2026-poster

10Jul

Plays

Review: The Producers, Garrick Theatre

Patrick Marber’s gloriously outrageous revival of The Producers is vulgar, affectionate and uproariously funny, led by a commanding Andy Nyman and a superb company. A richly deserved five-star triumph at the Garrick Theatre.

by Robert Cope 254 0

Latest News

Review: A Full Plate, Rosemary Branch Theatre

Review: Are You There Mother?, Hen & Chickens Theatre

Review: Jack in the Box, Lion & Unicorn Theatre

Review: When You Are a Tick, The Hope Theatre

Review: Have You Took The Bins Out?, Drayton Arms Theatre

Review: Duo Ekeš Live in London

Mr Thrushby’s Adventure comes to Greenwich Theatre for rehearsed reading

Review: The Swan, The Werewolf and Gianpiero, COLAB Theatre

Review: The Producers, Garrick Theatre

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