‘Waspish, punchy and imagistic’: Lily Levinson writes on Niqabi Ninja, an audio-guided walk that casts light on misogynistic violence and street harassment.
London Theatre
19 June 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Skin Hunger, Stone Nest
15 - 27 June
By Brendan Macdonald
Touching the void: Brendan Macdonald writes on Dante or Die’s interactive exploration of touch, which is a reminder of theatre’s ‘ability to provoke deep, intimate connections between audience and performer’.
6 June 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Death of a Black Man, Hampstead Theatre
28th May - 10th July
By Mert Dilek
Mert Dilek writes on Dawn Walton’s revival of Alfred Fagon’s incendiary play, ‘a crucible in which questions of race, class, and gender intermingle’.
27 May 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Shaw Shorts at Orange Tree Theatre
22nd May - 26th June
By Lily Levinson
Plays pleasant: Lily Levinson finds the plays in Paul Miller’s latest George Bernard Shaw production ‘solid chortlers’ if not ‘searingly urgent’.
6 April 2021
Reviews • National • OWE & Fringe
Review: Open Mic at HOME/Soho Theatre (online)
1-3 April
By James Varney
Eye contact: James Varney writes on liveness in Rob Drummond’s unsettling, loss-tinged open mic night.
21 March 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: A Rain Walk at The Place (online)
11-28 March
By Ben Kulvichit
A mood: Ben Kulvichit writes on an audio piece which invites the listener on a stroll in the rain.
3 March 2021
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Rice! at Omnibus Theatre (online)
20-28 February
By Naomi Obeng
Cooking without a recipe: Naomi Obeng writes on a Malaysian and UK co-production about living across two cultures.
7 December 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Fabulist Fox Sister, Southwark Playhouse (online)
4th-5th December
By Lily Levinson
“I seancéd my ass off”: Lily Levinson reviews Luke Bateman and Michael Conley’s one-man musical about ‘sozzled, sweary’, Spiritualist sisters.
30 November 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: The Kids Are Alright at Evelyn Estate, Deptford (online)
27 November - 2 December
By Naomi Obeng
‘Dream logic’: Naomi Obeng writes on Encounter’s strange, sad study on grief, reimagined as a filmed site-specific performance.
2 October 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Sunnymead Court at Tristan Bates Theatre
By Alice Saville
Queer longings: Gemma Lawrence’s play charts a lockdown romance forged at a distance.
19 May 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Yard Online
17th May
By Hannah Greenstreet
Hope and healing: Hannah Greenstreet writes on the intimate, soothing and disconcerting interactive digital performances at The Yard’s one day festival.
18 March 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: The Seven Streams of the River Ota at National Theatre
By Ava Wong Davies
A starting gun: Ava Wong Davies on Robert LePage’s epic but flattening narrative of suffering and resilience.
12 March 2020
Reviews • West End & Central
Review: Shoe Lady at the Royal Court
4th March - 21st March
By Hannah Greenstreet
‘An odyssey in miniature’: Hannah Greenstreet writes on E.V. Crowe’s new play about a woman whose life spirals out of control when she loses a shoe.
5 March 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: TRAINERS at the Gate Theatre
By Frey Kwa Hawking
‘This trying is pointed at you, because the show felt pointed at me for once’: Frey Kwa Hawking writes on Sylvan Oswald’s ‘theatrical essay’ about transness and love.
4 March 2020
Reviews • OWE & Fringe
Review: Christopher Green: No Show at the Yard
By Brendan Macdonald
The reluctant critic: Brendan MacDonald writes on Christopher Green’s tricksy performance of a crisis of faith in theatre.