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Review: 'The Girl With Glitter In Her Eye' at The Bunker, 13th January 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: What does it mean for something to be 'your' story? Writer/director Masha Kevinovna and OPIA Collective's The Girl With Glitter In Her Eye attempts to answer that,...
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Review: 'Project O - Voodoo' at the Lilian Baylis Studio, 16th January 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: I thought I'd made a big mistake coming to see Project O's Voodoo. It had been a long day at work and I'd cleared my mind with a long run in the evening. So by 9pm at the...
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Review: 'Beckett Triple Bill' at the Jermyn Street Theatre, 17th January 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Joan Rivers once said "There is nothing funny about ageing. It is rotten and depressing. Anyone who tells you otherwise just hasn't been paying attention." After seeing...
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Review: 'Macbeth' at Wilton's Music Hall, 23rd January 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: Ten minutes into The Watermill Ensemble's Macbeth a member of the cast dislocated both knees and the play was stopped. I don't believe in curses, but... I mean, pretty...
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Review: 'Something Awful' at Vault Festival, 29th January 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: There is no way I was going to pass up seeing a show called Something Awful. The title of the play is derived from a dinosauric comedy website and internet forum. Once...
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Review: 'For The Sake Of Argument' at the Bridewell Theatre, 30th January 2020
Reviewed by David JamesRating: When my revolution begins I will order that opinion columnists be first up against the wall. Don't get me wrong, there's a couple of good eggs. But the vast majority are...
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Review: '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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Review: '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...
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Review: '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...
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Review: '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...
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Review: '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...
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Review: '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...
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Review: '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...
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Review: '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....
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Review: '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...
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Review: '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...
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Review: '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...
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Review: '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...
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Review: 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...
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Review: 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...
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