Category: Theatre
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4 stars – miscellaneous drag documentary Half drag show, half documentary, this performance presents the work of Messy Friends. They are a group created by Ginava with an innovative idea of drag, where dance, lip-sync, burlesque and classical drag makeup are juxtaposed to puppet-like costumes.
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4 stars – powerful and honest musical comedy. Ah, the power of women…! Women falling on the ground, bouncing back up, falling more, bouncing back again and then some. Such is Riki Lindhome’s story, her infertility journey, as she calls it with apparent irony, standing somewhere between theatrical storytelling and comedy.
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3 stars – vulnerable, honest and ecletic. Jessie Cave, a well-versed, deadpan and brutally open comic, delivers another hour of just that: her usual dry, raw, personal, dark comedy. She’s famous for it by now, and not only for her comedy, podcasting, acting and bestselling novel, but also thanks to her public, on-off-on-again relationship with…
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2 stars – interesting story but weak performance An elegant woman sits on a chair in her black jumpsuit and bob cut. A detective is inquiring about some mischievous facts she is accused of. Salome, the sensual dancer, starts telling the story of her life until the moment of the murder.
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5 – irresistible, masterfully crafted Commedia The mission is as simple as impossible: to trace the history of Commedia dell’Arte in 50 minutes. One of the actors is desperate to start, but the other two don’t seem willing to collaborate… The down-to-Earth humour typical of the Commedia is extended beyond its boundaries, in a playfulness…
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4 stars – irony and high stakes Julia and Dan are splitting up, and every day they step into the divorce office and sit next to their lawyers, Samantha and Katherine. New details of their story emerge through each dialogue, together with hints about how their relationships have evolved in time.
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2 stars – cool experiment, but… The fear that AI will replace human work and ‘natural intelligence’ is slithering in a growing number of fields. In honour to this, Fiasco Jones from Boilingfrogs company tried to write a romcom with AI, counting on the predictability of the genre and on recurrent similar scenes. The result…
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1 star – dead start to finish. Unfortunately it is sometimes the worst shows that demonstrate the art and craft of great theatre better than the good ones. Thirty seconds into Dead End and you immediately realise that nothing on stage is effortless and simply provided by gods as the lights go off. This play…
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4 stars – a lighthearted but well captured portrait of an all-girls houseshare. Three housemates (and close friends) in their 20s are hosting a birthday party for one of them, when the birthday girl’s new situationship-about-to-have-the-talk shows up and turns the night around. Accommo-dating, a short and sweet one-act play managed to be clever, funny,…
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4 stars – plush feminist comedy Under a plush blanket, on plush pillows and next to a plush book, Riah Knight is sleeping. From the start, she engages the audience with great energy – even a very small and shy audience as was the case when I saw the show. Starting on a playful, amusing…
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