Review: Frankenstein at Greenwich Theatre, 28 August 2026
Frankenstein reviewed by David JamesRating: In Mary Shelley's novel, Victor Frankenstein is impressed by the sight of Greenwich as he sails up the Thames, noting that it's a place "which I had heard of...
View ArticleOn Barren Hill (Work in Progress) by Charlotte CHW at the Old Net Loft, 21st...
Werner Herzog described the jungle as "fornication and asphyxiation and choking and fighting for survival and growing and rotting away. Of course, there's a lot of misery. But it is the same misery...
View ArticleReview: 'Space by Luxmuralis' at St Martin-in-the-Fields, 17 February 2026
Space by Luxmuralis reviewed by David JamesRating: Central London's many churches are, quietly, one of the city's greatest features. In an urban landscape in which glass and steel skyscrapers sprout...
View ArticleReview: 'Give Me the Sun' at the Blue Elephant Theatre, 14th July 2022
Give Me the Sun reviewed by David JamesRating: Opening a play titled Give Me the Sun this week is like putting something out called 'Cough in My Face' at the height of COVID. It's not a great time to...
View ArticleReview: 'Moral Panic' at Riverside Studios, 6 May 2022
Reviewed by David JamesRating: It's adorable looking back at the 1980s "video nasties". The idea that something like Sam Raimi's The Evil Dead was ever a danger to anyone is absurd. Even so, 1980s...
View ArticleReview: Outside at the Rosemary Branch Theatre, 18 November 2021
Outside reviewed by David JamesRating: Broken people and bad times are my kinda theatre, and in Outside writer/director/actor Gabrielle MacPherson serves up a positively bulging smorgasbord of misery,...
View ArticleReview: Not Lady Chatterley's Lover at the Greenwich Theatre, 1st November 2021
Not Lady Chatterley's Lover reviewed by David JamesRating: There's a brand of bourgeois British comedy that I find as fun as having needles jammed under my fingernails. Think Radio 4 on a Sunday...
View ArticleReview: iMelania, 13th October 2021
iMelania reviewed by David JamesRating: First thoughts were that a play about Melania Trump might have missed the bus. After all, with Joe Biden in the White House and a whole new set of problems...
View ArticleReview: 'Going Ape' at the Union Theatre, 29 June 2021
Bad Nights and Odd Days reviewed by David JamesRating: As the lockdowns lift and theatres open their creaking doors, dust down their stages, and warm up the lights, it's forgivable that there's a hell...
View ArticleReview: 'Bad Nights And Odd Days' at the Greenwich Theatre, 25 June 2021
Bad Nights and Odd Days reviewed by David JamesRating: As the dreary lockdown months stretched on I struggled with the itch that only theatre can scratch: breathing the same air and occupying the same...
View ArticleReview: 'Queen Mab' at Iris Theatre’s Summer Festival, 22nd June 2021
Queen Mab reviewed by David JamesRating: We're not out of the woods with COVID but at least we seem to be on the right path. The pandemic has been the biggest global event since World War II and we'll...
View ArticleReview: 'NoMad' at the Greenwich Theatre, 27th November 2020
NoMad reviewed by David JamesRating: I've been a fan of Nell Hardy for some time. Way back in 2016 I saw her in the title role of Pandemonium Performance's promenade production of Alice in Wonderlandin...
View ArticleReview: 'We Sing/I Sang' at the Cockpit Theatre, 15th September 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Virtually Opera's We Sing/I Sang bills itself as "an improvised sci-fi ritual opera". A hazily defined 'Crisis' has hit the humanity and the old world has been erased....
View ArticleReview: 'Nuclear War / Buried / Graceland' at the Old Red Lion, 5th March 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: I'm not a huge fan double or triple bills of short plays. It's not that it's necessarily a bad format, but it's very tricky to write about while doing justice to each...
View ArticleReview: 'Closed Lands' at Vault Festival, 3rd March 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: You don't have to be a geopolitical expert to see that the next decade is going to bring some drastic and depressing changes to the way we live. Global warming will...
View ArticleReview: 'Jekyll / Hyde' at the Vault Festival, 25th February 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Last summer I spent a seriously enjoyable ninety minutes running around Covent Garden during Fire Hazard Games'80 Days - A Real World Adventure. The show combines...
View ArticleReview: 'House of Commons' at the White Bear Theatre, 21st February 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Titling a play House of Commons gives the audience a pretty hard nudge into reading it as a political allegory. So, with Boris Johnson set to be Prime Minister for a...
View ArticleReview: 'Thank You and Goodnight' at the Popular Union, 20th February 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Shows where a performer bemoans their crappy love life and dating experiences are a dime a dozen. Honestly, there are some nights out at the theatre where I wish the...
View ArticleReview: 'Crooks 1926' at the King William IV, 13th February 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: I'd love to be a fly on the wall when COLAB Theatre is planning out a new production. An astonishing amount of work must go into this: writing a central plot, writing...
View ArticleReview: 'Tryst' at the Chiswick Playhouse, 10th February 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Maybe I'm just getting cynical, but the standard of fringe theatre feels like it's pretty damn low at the moment. There's a couple of gems out there, but it seems like...
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