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Review: 'Grotty' at The Bunker, 3rd May 2018
Grotty reviewed by David JamesRating: I don't know much about the London lesbian scene, but judging by Grotty it's a psychosexual pressure cooker crammed full of cynical, predatory weirdos. Written by...
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Review: 'Lippy' at The Wandsworth Arts Fringe, 12th May 2018
Lippy reviewed by David JamesRating: Lippy is right about everything. It's right about body fascism. It's right about the unfairly limited social expectations of women. It's right about the ways age...
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Review: 'Isaac Came Home From The Mountain' at Theatre503, 14th May 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: It turns out that living through a 'crisis of masculinity' isn't much fun. A century of feminism and civil rights campaigning has left straight white men paranoid that...
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Review: 'Unexploded Ordnances (UXO)' at the Barbican Arts Centre, 15th May 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: This probably outs me as a morbid weirdo, but I think about being nuked each and every day. I gobble up books, TV and films about the subject: Command and Control (about...
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Review: 'In The Shadow Of The Mountain' at the Old Red Lion, 17th May 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: I have two ambitions for this review. I want to be humane and I want to be efficient. In The Shadow Of The Mountain was created with the best of intentions: to address...
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Review: 'Sex With Robots And Other Devices' at the King's Head Theatre, 22nd...
Sex With Robots And Other Devices reviewed by David JamesRating: Would you fuck a robot? My instinctive answer is no. The corpse-like uncanny valley creepiness of Real Dolls is nightmarish, it seems...
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Review: 'Der Schauspieldirektor & Bastien Und Bastienne' at Bethnal Green...
Reviewed by David JamesRating: When I was 12 I spent most of my time arguing over which Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle was the coolest (Raphael, obviously), so watching an opera composed by a 12-year-old...
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Review: 'Conquest' at The Bunker, 5th June 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Conquest is full of smart as hell observations, the best being that the cis sexual 'narrative' is centred around the masculine experience. Within the sex 'story' female...
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Review: 'The End of History' at St Giles-in-the-Fields, 7th June 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: For a person of normal economic means, choosing to live in London is like selecting 'hard mode' in a videogame. Here life is fast, brutal, competitive and overdraft...
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Review: 'The Yellow Wallpaper' at the Omnibus Theatre, 12th June 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Adapted by Ruby Lawrence from Charlotte Perkins Gilman's 1892 short story of the same name, The Yellow Wallpaper is an ominous tale of psychological horror set within the...
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Review: 'Nine Foot Nine' at The Bunker, 14th June 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: I was sold on Nine Foot Nine the moment I first heard its Charlie Kaufman-esque premise: how would the world change if the majority of women suddenly became nine foot...
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Review: 'Legally Blonde: The Musical' at the New Wimbledon Theatre, 18th June...
Reviewed by David JamesRating: The world is a pretty serious place at the moment, a quality which appears to be reflected in the shows I've been invited to lately. The spectrum begins at 'yer basic...
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Review: 'Section 2' at The Bunker, 19th June 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: You should hope you never have to grapple with mental health law and the rules and regulations governing treatment without consent. While it's never personally affected...
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Review: 'James Cook: The Voyages'&'Windrush: Songs in a Strange Land' at the...
On 26th August 1768, Captain James Cook departed Plymouth aboard HMS Endeavour with the stated objective of observing the Transit of Venus from Tahiti (thus helping determine Earth's distance from the...
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Review: 'The Tempest' at St Paul's Church, 26th June 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: There are few lovelier places to spend a balmy summer's evening than the beautifully cultivated garden that is St Paul's Churchyard. Situated smack dab in the middle of...
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Review: 'Circa: Peepshow' at the Underbelly, 3rd July 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Circa's new performance Peepshow is simultaneously modern and retro. On one hand, it's contemporary as hell: a show rippling with sexual tension to a pounding minimalist...
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Review: 'Flesh & Bone' at the Soho Theatre, 4th July 208
Reviewed by David JamesRating: In the liner notes of Flesh & Bone, writer, director and actor Elliott Warren instructs that his play should be "performed with bestial fire" and that you should...
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Review: 'It Happened In Key West' at the Charing Cross Theatre, 10th July 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Finally, a musical that dares to depict the nobility and romance of corpse fucking. It Happened In Key West has been a long time coming for die-hard advocates of...
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Review: 'When You Fall Down' at The Other Palace, 18th July 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Buster Keaton proves to be the biggest obstacle in the way of When You Fall Down, James Dangerfield's one-man musical biography of the silent movie star. The real Keaton...
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Review: 'Hamilton (Lewis)' at the King's Head Theatre, 6th September 2018
Reviewed by David JamesRating: During the opening scene of David Eaton and Fiona English's Hamilton (Lewis) I'm warned that I won't get much out of it if I'm not familiar with (a) Hamilton, the hit...
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