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★★Ye Gods Simon Ward reviews We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that’s now at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre Sometimes playwrights decide to lean into the idea of Fringe and give…

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★★★★Waiting for God Simon Ward reviews God Don’t Live On A Council Estate at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Dean Stalham’s 2010 play, God Don’t Live On A Council Estate, directed here by Jonathan Linsl…

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★★★★★Who Is Afraid of Kayleigh Grey? Simon Ward reviews Monster at the Seven Dials Playhouse Abigail Hood’s play, Monster, is set over a twenty year period in Glasgow. It centres on the lives of two girls, teenagers when we firs…

★★★★★Who Is Afraid of Kayleigh Grey?
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★★★★Whose Game Is It Anyway? Simon Ward reviews The Pitch at Theatre503 Philip Catherwood’s new play, directed by Thea Mayeux, is not the first to investigate the thorny issue of land and its use on the island of Ireland…

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★★Not With A Buzz But A Whimper Simon Ward reviews BuzzFest at the Wanstead Curtain Theatre As chestnuts are falling from the trees and an autumnal chill is in the air, writer-director Marissa Landy’s ode to the summer musi…

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★★★Blue Sunday Simon Ward reviews Dagmarr’s Dimanche at the Crazy Coqs The louche 1930s glamour of the Crazy Coqs in the Brasserie Zédel is arguably the best place in London to experience a real cabaret experienc…

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★★★★A Sepia-Tinged Dream Simon Ward reviews A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Since the turn of the millennium, Southwark Playhouse has been re-imagining the great works of the Shakespearea…

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★★★★Where the laughter never stops Simon Ward reviews Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People at the Soho Theatre As the autumnal gloom envelops tube strike-ridden London, it is an absolute delight to escape into the garish world of …

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★★★Where Two Worlds Collide Simon Ward reviews Tango in Silk at the Etcetera Theatre The first thing to note about Xi Liu’s Tango in Silk dance piece is that it is very short, perhaps ten minutes long. It is perhaps bes…

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★★★Star-Crossed Comic Caper Simon Ward reviews Romeo and Juliet – The Hate Story at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Directed by Annie Araba, this is the debut play of Brazilian writer-performer-producer Lucas Luan Lima. He…

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★★★★★Time Gentlemen Please Simon Ward reviews TWO at the Greenwich Theatre For this revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1989 play, the Greenwich Theatre has been transformed into a pub of that era, The Clock and Compass, with …

★★★★★Time Gentlemen Please
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★★★★Zany Zombie Delirium Simon Ward reviews Improv The Dead at The Bridewell Theatre One of the joys of a Fringe festival is, of course, to move out of one’s comfort zone and try out something a bit different. I conf…

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★★★★The Long Goodbye Simon Ward reviews Fickle Eulogy at the Hope Theatre, 207 Upper Street, London N1 1RL Debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, Nikol Kollars’s devastating solo show, directed by Javier Gal…

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★★★Return To Sender Simon Ward reviews Don’t Shoot The Messenger at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre Co-writers Daniel Camou and Sam Plumbe have billed their new Camden Fringe show as ‘an office comedy of Shak…

★★★Return To Sender
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★★★Too Many Years of Hurt Simon Ward reviews Coming Home at The Hope Theatre As we enter the soundtrack swells with the now-familiar England football anthems – Three Lions, of course, along with Vindaloo and Sweet Car…

★★★Too Many Years of Hurt
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★★★★Soft Underbelly Simon Ward reviews TURTLE: A Story About Christ, Cancer, Kinks, and Christmas at the Aces & Eights Theatre Although the bread-and-butter review circuit consists of rooms above pubs, there are a…

★★★★Soft Underbelly
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★★★Love in Shakespeare Simon Ward reviews LIV:Sapphic Shakespeare at the Old Red Lion Theatre Showing as part of the Camden Fringe, which is running at various venues around London until 24th August, this is clearly a la…

★★★Love in Shakespeare
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★★Lost on the Trail Simon Ward reviews Bloody Bloody Kansas at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Photo credit – Central Standard Theatre Conceived, written and directed by Heidi Van, who also plays the roles of Ma Be…

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★★★Healing Powers Simon Ward reviews All These Pretty Things at the Etcetera Theatre As we enter the small room above the Oxford Arms, Tracey Yarad is already in meditational pose, wrapped in a blanket and with Om S…

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★★★★Climb Every Mountain Simon Ward reviews in defence of adventurous mothers at The Glitch As we descend into the underground world of the Glitch we find ourselves in a climbing centre – two large pillars with the t…

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★★★★Call of the Wild Simon Ward reviews Brixton Calling at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Just over ten years ago, Simon Parkes wrote his memoir Live At The Brixton Academy describing the incredible true story of how …

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★★★★Friendship, Interrupted Simon Ward reviews 1.17am, or Until The Words Run Out at Theatre503 Running as part of the Summer Shorts season currently playing at Theatre503, Zoe Hunter Gordon’s new play is an utterly com…

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★★★Edge of Reason Simon Ward reviews Outside Voice at the Soho Poly Theatre Tucked away in the West End side streets, and just around the corner from the BBC, this location has been a hub for arts activities since a…

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★★★★Vin Rouge et Café Noir Simon Ward reviews I Love You Michael, Love Nadine at the Old Red Lion Theatre This new play by Megan Marszal, who also plays the role of Cece, is steeped in the louche underworld of 1980s Paris to…

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★★★★★A Love Letter To Uncle Sam Simon Ward reviews Kieran Hodgson:Voice of America at the Soho Theatre Fans of BBC 2 comedy Two Doors Down will already be familiar with Kieran Hodgson but he was a new face for me, although the fa…

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★★★★White Knuckle Shakespeare Simon Ward reviews Julius Caesar at the Hen and Chickens Theatre In this urgent and compelling interpretation of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, Anna Blackburn has created a nerve-shredding prod…

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★★★Save A Prayer Simon Ward reviews Ruthless – the Survival of Ruth Madoff at the Arches Lane Theatre Roger Steinmann’s play is a semi-biographical but fictionalised account of Ruth Madoff (Emily Swain)…

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★★★Dead Funny Simon Ward reviews Grave Mistake at the Hope Theatre Matthew Ballantyne and Toby Hampton’s new play is a Joe Orton-esque farce set in a funeral home. Burke and Sons has been a family business…

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★★Overdone Down Under Simon Ward reviews Mrs T Foresees at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre Centred around the life story and formidable presence of Irish clairvoyant Mrs Molly Tolpuddle (compellingly played by Carol Tagg…

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