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★★★Utterly Bananas
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★★★Utterly Bananas
Simon Ward reviews -320°F at Sadler’s Wells Theatre This is an all-out assault on the senses which it is all but impossible to sensibly review without some grounding in Japanese theatrical cu…
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★★Truth Or Dare?
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★★Truth Or Dare?
Simon Ward reviews Persona at the King’s Head Theatre Another day, another play set in a posh-dinner-party-gone-wrong, see last month’s ★★★Dinner Party From Hell for details. There must…
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9 days ago
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★★★★★All You Need Is Love
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★★★★★All You Need Is Love
Simon Ward reviews Love’s Labour’s Lost in Charterhouse Square, London EC1 There is something undeniably magical about seeing Shakespeare performed in the open air on a summer’s e…
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27 days ago
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★★★★Joyous Epiphany
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★★★★Joyous Epiphany
Simon Ward reviews Watershed at Playhouse East Emma Hickman’s witty play shares some ideas with movies like The Truman Show and The Lego Movie – the world presented here is carefully ch…
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about 1 month ago
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★★★Dinner Party From Hell
SImon Ward reviews Are You There Moriarty? at Playhouse East Running as part of a double bill with Watershed at Playhouse East, which looks like a flat-roofed pub repurposed as a cafe/bar with a th…
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about 1 month ago
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★★★★Enduring Solidarity
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★★★★Enduring Solidarity
Simon Ward reviews Kaddish (How To Be A Sanctuary) at the Old Red Lion Theatre Following an award-winning run at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, Sam Sherman brings this deeply personal play t…
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about 2 months ago
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★★★Lost Loves
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★★★Lost Loves
Simon Ward reviews Poison at The Cockpit Theatre The setting of Poison, written by Dutch playwright Lot Vekemans and here translated by Rina Vergano, seems to be set in continental Europe. The fact…
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about 2 months ago
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★★★Stage Fright
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★★★Stage Fright
Simon Ward reviews Player at the Riverside Studios If Matthew Lyon’s new play has a distinctly Berkoffian look and feel, that is hardly surprising as Lyon explicitly credits Steven Berkoff…
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about 2 months ago
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★★★★Your Worst Nightmare?
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★★★★Your Worst Nightmare?
Simon Ward reviews Dreamweavers at the Free Association The Free Association is a new comedy club nestling under the Waterloo arches right next to the Union Theatre, adding to the burgeoning list o…
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about 2 months ago
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★★★★★Flushed With Success
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★★★★★Flushed With Success
Simon Ward reviews FLUSH at the Arcola Theatre Writer and performer April Hope Miller and director Merle Wheldon bring their 2025 Edinburgh Fringe Festival hit, FLUSH, to the Arcola for a month-lon…
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2 months ago
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★★★★End of the World Camp Caper
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★★★★End of the World Camp Caper
Simon Ward reviews Stanislavski Can’t Save Me from the Apocalypse at the Barons Court Theatre Written and directed by Maggie Dickinson, Stanislavski Can’t Save Me from the Apocalypse is a dark…
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2 months ago
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★★★Heart of the Matter
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★★★Heart of the Matter
Simon Ward reviews Core Values at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Written and directed by co-star Alice Dempsey, Core Values is a series of vignettes – snapshots and brief scenes to provide insi…
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2 months ago
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★★★★Nobody’s Heroes
Simon Ward reviews Howie The Rookie at The Cockpit Mark O’Rowe’s multi-award winning 1999 play, Howie The Rookie, is brought to the very freshly refurbished Cockpit under the direction …
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2 months ago
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★★★★Life Imitates Artifice
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★★★★Life Imitates Artifice
Simon Ward reviews The Sequel at the King’s Head Theatre Lucas Closs’s new comedy-drama The Sequel is a hugely entertaining extended riff on what it means to be a writer and what any wr…
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2 months ago
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★★★★Small Victory, Big Heart
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★★★★Small Victory, Big Heart
Simon Ward reviews The Witch and The Whistleblower at The Glitch With all due respect to modern-day followers of Wicca, we would normally associate witches with either fairytales or the distant pas…
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3 months ago
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★★★★A Beautiful Tribute
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★★★★A Beautiful Tribute
Simon Ward reviews Fickle Eulogy at the Circle & Star Theatre I first encountered Nikol Kollars’s solo show, directed by Javier Galitó-Cava, in August last year (The Long Goodbye). I foun…
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3 months ago
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★★★Flashback To Edinburgh
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★★★Flashback To Edinburgh
Simon Ward reviews Rowling In It at the King’s Head Theatre Written and performed by Laura Kay Bailey, and directed by Dominic Shaw, Rowling In It is a fictionalised account of what she exper…
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3 months ago
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★★★Stuck In The Middle
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★★★Stuck In The Middle
Simon Ward reviews Concrete at the Hope Theatre Written and directed by Ché Tligui, Concrete is framed as a classic drawing room drama, but with a working class twist, such that the ‘drawing …
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3 months ago
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★★★★An Urgent Wake-Up Call
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★★★★An Urgent Wake-Up Call
Simon Ward reviews Lifeline at the Southwark Playhouse Elephant Fresh from a run off-Broadway, Lifeline comes to the Southwark Playhouse for the its UK premiere. In various guises it has been aroun…
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3 months ago
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★★★★★Alive and Kicking
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★★★★★Alive and Kicking
Simon Ward reviews Riki Lindhome: Dead Inside at the Soho Theatre Riki Lindhome brings her Edinburgh Fringe hit to Soho. She is known for her roles in the Netflix series Wednesday as well…
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3 months ago
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★★★The Trouble With Men
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★★★The Trouble With Men
Simon Ward reviews Monologues of Men at the Old Red Lion Theatre Long time collaborators Francis Saunders and Dean Stalham have teamed up again, this time with Saunders writing and performing, and …
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3 months ago
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★★★★Poppy Power
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★★★★Poppy Power
Simon Ward reviews Poppies at the Camden People’s Theatre Running as part of this year’s SPRINT Festival for new work at the Camden People’s Theatre, Poppies is an intensely perso…
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3 months ago
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★★★★★Do You Believe in Miracles?
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★★★★★Do You Believe in Miracles?
Simon Ward reviews Miraculous at the Old Red Lion Theatre Luke Stiles’s new play, in which he also plays Josh, has its roots in the American tradition of children and older teenagers spending…
https://thepegreview.com/2026/03/19/%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85%e2%98%85do-you-believe-in-miracles/
4 months ago
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★★★★A Star is Reborn
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★★★★A Star is Reborn
Simon Ward reviews Grit, Glitter and Gaslight -The Sarah McGuinness Story at the Circle and Star Theatre The Circle and Star Theatre is the latest incarnation of one of the godfathers of LondonR…
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4 months ago
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★★★Dystopia Revisited
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★★★Dystopia Revisited
Simon Ward reviews Two Strangers and a Clipboard at the Etcetera Theatre Written and directed by Maria Speight, this is a piece presented as workshop preview prior to a planned summer festival run.…
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4 months ago
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★★★Grim Tale Of The Sea
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★★★Grim Tale Of The Sea
Simon Ward reviews SALT at the Riverside Studios The company Contemporary Ritual Theatre (CRT), who here present Beau Hopkins’s play SALT, are based in Great Yarmouth, but this tale long pred…
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4 months ago
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★★★Loveless Landslide
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★★★Loveless Landslide
Simon Ward reviews The Red Prince at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre The term ‘Red Prince’ was first used as a tongue-in-cheek epithet for the sons of Labour grandees who had decided to go…
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4 months ago
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★★★★Howling At The Moon
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★★★★Howling At The Moon
Simon Ward reviews Werewolf Sighted In Port Talbot at the Old Red Lion Theatre Following a successful run as part of GrimFest in October last year, Andy Sellers’s debut dark comedy returns to…
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4 months ago
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★★Absent Minded
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★★Absent Minded
Simon Ward reviews The Sound Of Absence at the Omnibus Theatre The Peg is approached to review many more shows than we can possibly cover, so there has to be a sifting process to choose which ones …
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4 months ago
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★★★★Nakedly Irresistible
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★★★★Nakedly Irresistible
Simon Ward reviews EXPÖSED at The Lion and Unicorn Theatre My heart usually sinks at the prospect of a play written by its cast. It is hard to make a piece work as a coherent whole when everyone is…
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5 months ago
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★★★Creeping Death
Simon Ward reviews Little Sister at The Glitch Theatre The subterranean performance space at The Glitch, reached by a non-descript door which could lead anywhere, feels like an appropriate setting …
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5 months ago
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★★★Keeping Up Appearances
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★★★Keeping Up Appearances
Simon Ward reviews Mrs. President at the Charing Cross Theatre When Keala Settle makes her entrance as Mary Lincoln in John Ransom Phillips’s play, there is a momentary pause when she poses, …
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5 months ago
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★★★★Family Matters
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★★★★Family Matters
Simon Ward reviews Mother.Dad at the Omnibus Theatre This two-hander comprises the narration of two, apparently unrelated, stories by ‘Him’ (Andy Sellers) and ‘Her’ (Toyin A…
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6 months ago
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★★Beware The Boline
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★★Beware The Boline
Simon Ward reviews The Boline Inn at the Hope Theatre For anyone who might be unaware, a boline is a white-handled ritual knife used in Wicca. So, much like The Slaughtered Lamb pub in the 1981 com…
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7 months ago
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★★★★Savagely Funny
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★★★★Savagely Funny
Simon Ward reviews Wilder! at the Etcetera Theatre This barely categorisable play written by its leading actors Thomas Billiouw and Dany Van Brabant deserves to be seen by a wider audience than can…
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7 months ago
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★★★★★Humbug Free Zone
Simon Ward reviews The Christmas Thing at the Seven Dials Playhouse This is an utterly gleeful slice of Christmas slapstick fun, irresistibly written, directed and hosted by double act Tom Clarkson…
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7 months ago
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★★★Who Wants To Live Forever?
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★★★Who Wants To Live Forever?
Simon Ward reviews Continuity at The Cockpit Theatre As a technology entrepreneur, we can take it that the insights that David Sear shares in this dystopian satirical black comedy are based on conc…
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8 months ago
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★★★★Murder By The Stage Door
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★★★★Murder By The Stage Door
Simon Ward reviews Kill For The Part at the Canal Cafe Theatre Written and directed by Lucy Blunt, who also plays Olivia/Eleanor Deluse, this is a witty and beguiling romp which interleaves a class…
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8 months ago
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★★Dead End Street
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★★Dead End Street
Simon Ward reviews Old Fat F**k Up at the Riverside Studios Olly Hawes has set up camp at the Riverside Studios – as well as this show, in a week or so, he will be alternating performances wi…
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8 months ago
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★★★★★Anything But Grim Up North
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★★★★★Anything But Grim Up North
Simon Ward reviews Gwenda’s Garage:The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Following a successful run at the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse in Sheffield, this is the London premiere of a…
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8 months ago
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★★★Grindr's Not A Dating App
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★★★Grindr’s Not A Dating App
Simon Ward reviews Daddy’s First Gay Date at the Seven Dials Playhouse Rather touchingly listed on the venue’s website as ‘Writer, Producer and Ben’ this show is clearly Sam…
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8 months ago
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★★Ye Gods
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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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9 months ago
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★★★★Waiting for God
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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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9 months ago
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★★★★★Who Is Afraid of Kayleigh Grey?
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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…
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9 months ago
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★★★★Whose Game Is It Anyway?
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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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9 months ago
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★★Not With A Buzz But A Whimper
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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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10 months ago
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★★★Blue Sunday
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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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10 months ago
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★★★★A Sepia-Tinged Dream
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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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10 months ago
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★★★★Where the laughter never stops
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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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10 months ago
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