Jan 2, 2019
Review: The Tell-Tale Heart (Dorfman Theatre)
In a city awash with Pantos and feel-good festive shows, it is only natural that my macabre sensibilities were attracted to Anthony...
Jan 2, 2019
Review: Hadestown (Olivier Theatre)
Greek influence on theatre is beyond question, but when it comes to the modern musical it’s not something that is explored often....
Nov 22, 2018
Review: The Madness of King George III (Nottingham Playhouse)
A king losing his sanity and a conspiracy from his offspring to take over the throne, we’ve heard this before, haven’t we? The National’s...
Jun 23, 2018
Review: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (Young Vic Theatre)
"What is the victory of a cat on a hot tin roof?" From the glossy sheen of the Young Vic's production of the classic Tennessee William's...
Sep 2, 2017
Review: Jane Eyre (His Majesty's Theatre)
“Jane Eyre”. Classic novel by Charlotte Brontё, translated into 30 languages, and have over 500 pages of a woman growing up in difficult...
Jul 28, 2017
Review: Angels in America Part 2, Perestroika (Lyttelton Theatre)
Wait a moment whilst I adopt my deep, booming narrator voice. Here we go. Last time, on Angels in America: Louis left the dying Prior in...
Jul 23, 2017
Review: Angels in America Part 1, Millennium Approaches (Lyttelton Theatre)
Yes, you read correctly. Part one. This is the National Theatre’s massive production of Tony Kushner’s “Gay Fantasia on National Themes”,...
Jun 24, 2017
Review: Salomé (Olivier Theatre)
A tale of a powerful young woman, a mysterious dance, a severed head and an unforgivable crime….or was it? That seems to be the premise...
May 19, 2017
Review: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Harold Pinter Theatre)
Now, this is the big one. This is the one that has got people talking, even in Aberdeen, particularly after the Harold Pinter Theatre...
May 12, 2017
Review: Obsession (The Barbican)
Obsession. It’s about a couple of people who are obsessed with each other, trouble is one is married. And that’s it. One could be...
