Chris Omaweng

Hand-Me-Downs - Jack Studio Theatre | Review One of the show’s two critical incidents has already happened before the events in the play get going, and almost everything else that’s rather interesting

Hand-Me-Downs - Jack Studio Theatre

"An intriguing show with potential, there are some astute observations about life – and death – to think about."

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Hamlet (2025) - National Theatre | Review As is usually the case at the National Theatre, the set (Ben Stones) is impressive, and on that basis alone, this show would be a good candidate for the ongoing

Hamlet - National Theatre | Review

"To me, this is another serving of Hamlet, serviceable and satisfying, nothing less and nothing more."

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Happy Ending - Waterloo East Theatre | Review There are some twists and turns in this show, although there were so many that one ended up wondering whether anything either Andy (Jimmy Essex) or his client,

Happy Ending - Waterloo East Theatre | Review

"A light-hearted and fluffy show that could have delved deeper into some of the various topics it briskly covers."

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Get Down Tonight - Charing Cross Theatre | Review There’s a seemingly insatiable desire on the part of Harry (Ross Harmon) to focus on the good times, the positives, the love he had for those closest to him.

Get Down Tonight - Charing Cross Theatre | Review

"An energetic night out, best enjoyed by sitting back and letting the music wash over you."

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(the) Woman - Park Theatre | Review As an ‘outsider’ to motherhood (for hopefully obvious reasons), this production was intriguing in parts – the bits about mothering were fascinating, the b

(the) Woman - Park Theatre | Review

"A hardworking cast does well with what they are given. But the show feels somewhat unfinished"

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Clarkston - Trafalgar Theatre | Review A curious name for a play, Clarkston is set in Clarkston – not the town in East Renfrewshire, Scotland (probably most famous for a gas explosion that killed t

Clarkston - Trafalgar Theatre | Review

"A good mix of tenderness and humour makes the ninety-five-minute running time feel considerably less"

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Week beginning 5 October 2025
- Best of Broadway @royalalberthall.bsky.social
- Plainclothes @curzon.com
- The Choir of Man - Arts Theatre
- Da Vinci's Laundry @riversidelondon.bsky.social
- Exe Men - Exeter Northcott Theatre
- A Case Study of Shoplifting - Hen & Chickens Theatre

The Shadow in the Mirror - The Mill at Sonning | Review This was a short adaptation of a short story, which meant that even with the customary 8:15pm start at this venue, on account of the two-course meal in the rest

The Shadow in the Mirror - The Mill at Sonning | Review

"All things considered, a good story is a good story, but there could have been more dramatisation as opposed to recollection."

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The Billionaire Inside Your Head - Hampstead Theatre | Review Not the easiest of plays to get one’s head around, The Billionaire Inside Your Head is an exploration of what may or may not be obsessive-compulsive disorder

The Billionaire Inside Your Head - Hampstead Theatre | Review

"An intriguing and irreverent tale about the destructive power of the love of money, it’s a hundred minutes well spent."

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50 First Dates: The Musical - The Other Palace | Review Well, I was never sufficiently bored to bother keeping a tally of how many ‘first dates’ were actually staged in 50 First Dates: The Musical, in what proved

50 First Dates: The Musical - The Other Palace | Review

"It’s not exactly deep and intense, even if it does tug at the heartstrings rather more than one might expect on first viewing."

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The Man Who Was Magic - Adelphi Theatre | Review James Phelan, to his credit, tried very hard to persuade me to see his magic show earlier this year at the Edinburgh Fringe, but it ended up being one of many s

The Man Who Was Magic - Adelphi Theatre | Review

"A confident and engaging performance, this is British magic at its finest, understated yet utterly magnificent from beginning to end."

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Week beginning 28 September 2025
- Magic at the Musicals @royalalberthall.bsky.social
- (the) Woman - Park Theatre
- Get Down Tonight - Charing Cross Theatre
- Happy Ending @waterlooeast.bsky.social
- Hamlet @nationaltheatre.org.uk
- Hand-Me-Downs - Jack Studio Theatre

The Weir – Harold Pinter Theatre | Review

The Weir - Harold Pinter Theatre | Review

"Some interesting and mildly amusing stories helped to maintain interest, but I was never deeply invested in proceedings."

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The Land of the Living - National Theatre | Review A traverse stage, or ‘alley’, ‘corridor’ or ‘catwalk’, is in use in a reconfigured Dorfman Theatre, though I’m not convinced it made much differen

The Land of the Living - National Theatre | Review

"an uneven and sluggishly paced production, even if it’s a worthy choice of topic at a time when migration is a pertinent contemporary issue"

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Dracula - Lyric Hammersmith Theatre | Review I’m one of those people who becomes astutely aware of their surroundings whenever a show (or a movie) gets ‘scary’. I don’t have to try very hard at all

Dracula - Lyric Hammersmith Theatre | Review

"It is more reflective than outrightly fear-inducing – a sense of fear creeps in the more one thinks about it. So best not to think too much about it, if you can resist. A unique and intelligent production."

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Breaking The Code - Royal & Derngate | Review Hugh Whitemore’s play about the life and times of Alan Turing has been doing the rounds since 1986, and yet it was a show I had encountered for the first time

Breaking The Code - Royal & Derngate, Northampton | Review

"A fascinating play about a fascinating man, it doesn’t blind the audience with mathematical models, but rather presents a ‘warts and all’ account of the life of an ever-inquisitive genius."

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The Producers - Garrick Theatre | Review First things first – this show is not a tribute to Hitler: indeed, you might even say it pokes fun at the Nazi dictator as well as his sympathisers, most nota

The Producers - Garrick Theatre | Review

"...a fantastic night out, just the tonic for anyone who doesn’t mind generous doses of impertinence delivered with exuberance and joy"

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Week beginning 21 September 2025
- Meat Loaf by Candlelight - New Theatre Oxford
- The Next Chapter @orangetreetheatre.bsky.social
- The Man Who Was Magic - Adelphi Theatre
- 50 First Dates: The Musical @theotherpalace.bsky.social
- The Billionaire Inside Your Head - Hampstead Theatre

Not Your Superwoman - Bush Theatre | Review “Every generation blames the one before,” so sang Mike + The Mechanics in ‘The Living Years’, to quote a song not featured in this show but one I’ve h

Not Your Superwoman - Bush Theatre | Review

"A credible story, the show is a love letter to all the single parents out there, doing their absolute best in challenging circumstances, often without much, if any, affirmation or recognition."

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Every Brilliant Thing - @sohoplace | Review I suspect it’s a show worth seeing more than once, to see how different actors approach Every Brilliant Thing – I plumped for seeing Ambika Mod, partly beca

Every Brilliant Thing - @ sohoplace | Review

"A beautiful and heartfelt piece of theatre, with sincerity and without sentimentality."

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Ballet Nights 009: Bound in Motion | Review Regular users of the London Underground will be aware that there are all sorts of reasons why Tube services may not be running. The main difference with industr

Ballet Nights 009: Bound in Motion - Cadogan Hall | Review

"A second birthday party like no other, it has been a joy to witness Ballet Nights continue to grow and succeed."

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Seagull: True Story - Marylebone Theatre | Review “You think you would have been hired to direct this if I wasn’t your mummy?” Olga (Ingeborga Dapkunaite) almost sneers at Kon (Daniel Boyd), her own flesh

Seagull: True Story - Marylebone Theatre | Review

"A committed cast does their best with what they are given, both physically and figuratively, working up a sweat. But the show, as it stands, is like unwieldy hair badly in need of a trim."

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Am I Losing My Mind Or Just My Figure? | Review There were things I knew nothing about before seeing this show. It wasn’t so much the details of Fin’s personal and professional lives, the former about nav

Am I Losing My Mind Or Just My Figure - Etcetera Theatre | Review

"...theatre could do with more stories like this one: gritty yet inviting, frustrating yet hopeful."

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Week beginning 14 September 2025
- 15th Anniversary Concert @waterlooeast.bsky.social
- The Producers - Garrick Theatre
- Breaking the Code @royalderngate.bsky.social
- Dracula @lyrichammersmith.bsky.social
- The Land of the Living @nationaltheatre.org.uk
- The Weir - Harold Pinter Theatre

The Chaos That Has Been And Will No Doubt Return According to the website thetrainline.com, it takes an average of forty-one minutes to travel from Luton to London St Pancras station by train, with the fastest

The Chaos That Has Been And Will No Doubt Return - Southwark Playhouse | Review

"The standing ovation for this charming yet visceral production was well deserved."

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Deaf Republic - Royal Court | Review The setting and the storyline are fictional – I liked Alfonso in a postscript to the action saying, “It was just a story”. It’s almost always better to

Deaf Republic - Royal Court | Review

"Some intriguing ideas are introduced in a visually impressive and marvellously unsettling production."

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Copenhagen Collective: The Genesis - Peacock Theatre In the beginning, according to The Genesis, people got on top of one another – vertically speaking (the show is too squeaky clean to include horizontal moveme

Copenhagen Collective: The Genesis - Peacock Theatre | Review

"...an hour of people climbing on top of each other and not much else? Meh."

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Grimeborn Opera: Becoming Tosca | Review Well, it’s different, I’ll give it that much. The three acts in this adaptation of Puccini’s Tosca are called ‘Becoming’, ‘Act I’ and ‘Act II’

Grimeborn Opera: Becoming Tosca - Arcola Theatre | Review

"It’s all very well being able to understand a show, but this shouldn’t be at the expense of enjoying it."

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Week beginning 8 September 2025 (subject to change)
- Am I Losing My Mind or Just My Figure? - Etcetera Theatre
- Seagull: True Story - Marylebone Theatre
- Ballet Nights 009 @cadoganhall.bsky.social
- Every Brilliant Thing - [at] sohoplace
- Not Your Superwoman @bushtheatre.bsky.social

Polar Bears - White Bear Theatre | Review There’s an awful lot going on in this play. This production is kind enough to stick an interval in – when Polar Bears premiered in 2010 at the Donmar Wareho

Polar Bears - White Bear Theatre | Review

"A hardworking cast does their best to deliver a highly convoluted script in a show that resulted in more questions than answers."

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