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Seeing a bit of theatre... http://www.paulinlondon.com/noreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)Blogger2289125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-7054430051660482709Sun, 24 May 2026 05:59:00 +00002026-05-24T06:59:00.116+01:00Cal McCrystalChiswickcircusGiffordsJenna Dearness-DarkJoe PickeringOlivia Louise Swoboda-WeinsteinRaf ShahStefan SwobodaGiffords Circus tours England annually and has arrived in Chiswick for the next week with its current show, Waterfield. Some circuses nowadays are stripped-down affairs focusing on a few circus elements or minimising costumes. In contrast, this show takes the old-time circus and gives it a modern twist. There’s wonder and whimsy, incredible costumes and staging, plus some spectacular acrobatic http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/05/coloured-lights-giffords-circus-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-1843770746990379592Sat, 16 May 2026 14:08:02 +00002026-05-16T15:08:02.827+01:00Alfred Taylor-GauntAlice O'BriencomedydanceEna YamaguchiKings Head TheatreSammy MooreA show with a title called Derrière on a G String conjures up all sorts of expectations about the type of smut that you might encounter. And what flesh might be on display by some unsuspecting performers. But fortunately, we’re at the Kings Head Theatre in Islington, not some seedy location elsewhere in London, so there isn’t much to fear. What we have is a mostly silly dance-and-movement http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/05/buttocks-up-derriere-on-g-string-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-3604374631056114893Sat, 25 Apr 2026 19:05:00 +00002026-04-25T20:05:55.912+01:00Imy Wyatt CornerJim FindleyJulia PilkingtonKings Head TheatreLucas Clossnew writingNisha EmichAttending a late-night play during a public transport strike may sound unwise—certainly the choice of a diehard theatre fan, especially since it meant walking London’s streets at midnight to get home. Yet, as I recounted this on Friday to explain my tiredness, I found myself laughing about how funny The Sequel was. Lucas Closs, an emerging writer, fills the play with enough intrigue and absurdityhttp://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/04/write-it-down-sequel-at-kings-head.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2592097853618700370Sat, 18 Apr 2026 22:38:00 +00002026-04-18T23:38:35.894+01:00Elwira RejnowiczJan TabęckiMateusz MirekMichał Nowaknew writingRiverside StudiosIn the search for dreams and a better life, the grass (or maybe the elderflower, which is popular in Polish cuisine) may look greener on the other side. But the lure and the pull of home, be they tomato soup (a staple comfort food in Poland) or Polish dumplings (known as pierogi), remain. These are the themes in this funny and charming chamber musical, Green, Wild Elderflower (Szalony, Zielony http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/04/the-green-green-grass-green-wild.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2282245194257318693Sat, 18 Apr 2026 16:28:00 +00002026-04-18T17:28:42.755+01:00Boulevard Theatrecabaretrussell lucasSarah-Louise YoungI’m not a fan of Kate Bush. But as Sarah-Louise Young in her show An Evening Without Kate Bush says, that’s ok. She appears, initially illuminated only by a red lamp, dressed in black, and moving across the stage in the style of Kate Bush. Or given that I’m not a fan or that familiar with her works, what I would assume Kate Bush might do if she had full run of the Underbelly Boulevard theatre. http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/04/for-fans-evening-without-kate-bush-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2265456630166734692Sat, 28 Mar 2026 17:32:00 +00002026-03-28T17:32:33.111+00:00Abigail ThawBrigid LarmourCatherine CusackFinborough TheatreHugh WalpoleJulia WatsonRodney AcklandThe day after seeing The Old Ladies at the Finborough Theatre, I was describing the play to someone in great detail: about three old ladies who lived in a rickety house in southern England in 1935. Based on Hugh Walpole’s novel and adapted by Rodney Ackland, it is the sort of story with enough believability, humour and mild thriller to stick in your mind. Perhaps it is the lure of this dark, http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/03/no-country-for-old-women-old-ladies-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2829793464825862029Sat, 14 Mar 2026 18:59:00 +00002026-03-14T18:59:00.111+00:00Eugénie Pastornew writingShamira TurnerSoho TheatreTwo women chase the elusive six-pack in Iron Fantasy, only to embark on an unexpected journey exploring what it truly means to be strong in today’s world. In a culture that demands visible strength and power, they subject themselves to lifting, protein powder-guzzling, and raw-egg drinking. Interestingly, consuming raw eggs elicited many squeamish reactions from members of the audience. None has http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/03/iron-maidens-iron-fantasy-at-soho.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-3565039790027936772Sun, 08 Mar 2026 15:30:00 +00002026-03-08T15:30:40.302+00:00Gary Wilmotnew writingSteve FurstSydney StevensonUpstairs At The GatehouseAs the song goes, time heals everything. Or as another song says, it's time after time. Yet waiting—for a moment, a minute, or even a while—can feel like a chore. In Gary Wilmot’s slightly absurd and silly While They Were Waiting, the focus is on waiting and wordplay. No opportunity is missed to find more than one meaning in what is said. A debate arises about the difference between a smidge and http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/03/still-here-while-they-were-waiting.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)Highgate, London, UK51.5717195 -0.14998923.261485663821155 -35.306239 79.881953336178839 35.006261tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-1690272885034410222Sun, 25 Jan 2026 08:30:00 +00002026-01-25T08:30:00.125+00:00Anastasia BunceFinborough TheatreKarine BedrossianDarkie Armo Girl, Karine Bedrossian’s electrifying one-woman show, commands attention from the moment it begins. First performed in 2022 and revived last year, it now returns for extra performance and it's an event not to miss. The show takes you through the thrills and horrors of a hectic life. She struts, shimmies, and taunts while revealing some horrific truths. She is such an irresistible http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/01/eyes-hair-mouth-darkie-armo-girl-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)118 Finborough Rd, London SW10 9ED, UK51.486616 -0.19011223.176382163821152 -35.346362 79.796849836178836 34.966138tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2154987212972854632Sun, 18 Jan 2026 17:01:00 +00002026-01-18T17:01:37.907+00:00Dave SolomonJason Ardizzone-WestKillian Thomas LefevreLevi KreisYiftach ‘Iffy’ MizrahiPerforming two shows a day on a Broadway run sounds exhausting enough. But when you’ve just had a not-so-great matinee and are having a crisis of confidence, I would assume the last thing you’d want is to confront your past. Yet that’s the situation in Already Perfect, writer-performer Levi Kreis’s slightly autobiographical journey of confronting the past and his younger self. With a series of http://www.paulinlondon.com/2026/01/life-upon-wicked-stage-already-perfect.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-6272132458152973337Sun, 07 Dec 2025 07:59:00 +00002025-12-07T07:59:00.116+00:00adult showsAndrew BeckettJon BradfieldKeanu Adolphus JohnsonLaura Anna-MeadMartin HooperMatt KennedyMatthew Baldwinnew writingpantomimeIt may not be a tale as old as time, but it’s still the same old story, almost, with Beauty and the Beast: A Horny Love Story currently playing at the Charing Cross Theatre.  As the title suggests, this is not family holiday entertainment, but neither is it all gay gore. And a surprisingly large number of clever gags, a gorgeous-looking production, costumes, and an ensemble make for a classyhttp://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/12/wee-liberties-beauty-and-beast-horny.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2466918898447066273Mon, 24 Nov 2025 07:01:00 +00002025-11-24T07:01:00.111+00:00Barons Court TheatreLucrezia GaleoneMolly Rolfenew writingSarah SilvestriViola! Theatre FestivalThey sing. They dance. They clown around. They even wash clothes! Such is the story of La Bella Bimba, part of the Voila Theatre Festival, which highlights new and emerging artists. A tale of two Italian ladies who land in 1920s New York, trying to break into Broadway without speaking a word of English. It’s harmless, primarily even if a little nonsensical, and is currently playing as part of thehttp://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/11/two-ladies-la-bella-bimba-at-barons.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-1614704584236569151Sat, 22 Nov 2025 16:59:00 +00002025-11-22T16:59:39.445+00:00Ben NorrisConor DumbrellHugo TimbrellJoe WalshamLucy Fosternew writingOld Red Lion TheatreWhat do you do when a pandemic breaks out and people start dying? In An Instinct, the answer is to escape to a remote cabin in the woods with your ex-boyfriend, leaving your current boyfriend behind. This is the premise behind Hugo Timbrell’s An Instinct, billed as a queer thriller that delivers a few shocks along the way. Yet, the real tension lies in the disturbing dynamics between the three http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/11/love-is-love-instinct-at-old-red-lion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-3448683080668978188Sun, 02 Nov 2025 11:14:00 +00002025-11-02T11:14:58.872+00:00FinboroughFinborough TheatreLiam HolmesMabli GwynneMichael Nerinew writingA life of hope and promise, interrupted, lies at the heart of Mr Jones: an Aberfan Story. The play follows two young people in Aberfan before and after the disaster that killed 144 people, including 116 children. It’s an emotional coming-of-age tale of intersecting lives, family, love, and the shock of tragedy. With two vivid performances and strong characterisations, you feel immersed in 1960s http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/11/the-green-green-grass-of-home-mr-jones.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2669204785077520966Sat, 13 Sep 2025 14:35:00 +00002025-09-13T15:35:44.526+01:00Alexander MolochnikovDaniel BoydEli RareyIngeborga DapkunaiteMarylebone Theatrenew writingIt's not often that you see a play that tells you not so much a story but gives you a sense of how it feels to be in a situation, how it feels to be silenced, how it feels to be marginalised, how the dead hand of consensus stifles your creativity. However, in Seagull True Story, created and directed by Alexander Molochnikov and based on his own experiences fleeing Russia and trying to establish http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/09/a-man-for-all-seasons-seagull-true.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-4651665498503412640Wed, 13 Aug 2025 05:58:00 +00002025-08-13T06:58:00.127+01:00Bonnie LangthornEmma HainesKeenan HeinzelmannPaul McLaughlinRiverside StudiosIt’s a brave or maybe slightly provocative production to use Hammersmith Bridge on their artwork for a show called Collapse, which is about how everything collapses—poorly maintained bridges, relationships, and jobs. Nothing works. That’s probably too close to home for Hammersmith residents stuck with a magnificently listed and useless bridge on their front door. It gets even weirder when you http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/08/high-anxiety-collapse-riverside-studios.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-6351419617933757046Sun, 03 Aug 2025 05:59:00 +00002025-08-03T06:59:00.126+01:00Amy Ellen RichardsonCaroline SheenJack ButterworthJermyn Street Theatrenew musicalsPaul FosterRichard StirlingSarah TravisSophie Louise DannCompton Mackenzie’s novel about bed-hopping lesbians on Capri (here fictionalised as Sirene) and their escapades gets a musicalised treatment in this intimate show. It’s all a bit silly, really, and not much happens in the end. However, the musical succeeds in evoking a time, a place, and a mood with its sublime music and stellar cast. It’s currently playing at Jermyn Street Theatre.Set in the http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/08/extraordinary-shenanigans-extraordinary.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-3197193576627060643Sun, 20 Jul 2025 14:39:00 +00002025-07-20T15:39:18.483+01:00Alasdair BuchanDaniel SlaterJames InverneLisa-Anne Woodnew writingPark TheatreSebastian TorkiaIt’s hard to imagine that it’s only been 130 years since Puccini first premiered La Boheme. Nowadays, it’s a revered classic, and guaranteed to be on any opera company's annual programme if it needs to stay afloat. It’s a crowd pleaser with its melodrama of poor, impoverished artists loving, starving and dying in Paris. But Puccini’s La Boheme had a less auspicious beginning, with one of his http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/07/a-night-at-opera-that-bastard-puccini.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-8251758015696063347Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:00:00 +00002025-06-28T15:00:28.962+01:00Baden BurnsedfringeLucy Appletonnew writingWiltons Music HallZach Burns"I'm Potty the Plant," sings a potted plant in this odd little fringe concept of a show. It's hard not to get the tune out of your head, even if the show is brief. It's an earworm for a show that features a worm-like plant as a puppet. And given the show's brevity, running at only an hour, it's hard to get too annoyed by a lack of a coherent story, even if it still seems like the show could use ahttp://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/06/somewhere-thats-green-potty-plant-at.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-5774951911427189748Sun, 08 Jun 2025 04:30:00 +00002025-06-08T05:30:00.115+01:00Arches Lane TheatreEmily Swainnew writingRoger Steinmann What is it about the Madoff’s that writers can’t resist writing about? Sure, it may have been the largest Ponzi scheme to collapse (so far), but there isn’t much more to explore. Or is there? In Ruthless by writer Roger Steinmann, Ruth Madoff is imagined as a wronged, gun-toting woman anchored in the past while trying to move on with her life. It’s not entirely successful but a fascinating look http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/06/ruthless-people-ruthless-arches-lane.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-5002811486503151195Sat, 31 May 2025 16:00:00 +00002025-05-31T17:00:42.605+01:00Burt SheveloveDan BuckleyGeorgie RankcomKevin McHaleMatt NicholsonNathan LaneSouthwark PlayhouseStephen SondheimVictoria SconeYshani PerinpanayagamFor a show called The Frogs, there isn’t much amphibian activity in the piece. But being a show with music by Stephen Sondheim, you could be mistaken for thinking it’s a critical theatrical piece. But like Sondheim’s final musical playing at the National Theatre, while it may not be a musical that fills you with provocative thoughts, it’s a fast-paced romp through hell and back to save the world http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/05/wine-time-frogs-southwark-playhouse.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2463635902890403972Sun, 18 May 2025 15:18:00 +00002025-05-18T16:19:05.177+01:00Athena StevensChe WalkerFinboroughnew writingNobody likes Cassandra, and like the Trojan princess who was given the gift of being able to see the future but cursed so that nobody would believe her, the woman at the centre of this piece could see into the not-too-distant future. She can see that disaster is about to strike. But she’s dismissed as a vulnerable, crazy lady who maybe had a bit too much to drink. This is the premise of “http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/05/false-alarms-diagnosis-finborough.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-8343767740882821246Sat, 26 Apr 2025 15:22:00 +00002025-04-26T16:22:51.414+01:00Alexandre Costet-BarmadaAnastasia BunceAyesha OstlerCaroline TrowbridgeFinboroughGrace Joy HowarthLaura ManelaThe Inseparables brings Simone de Beauvoir’s posthumously published novel to life. It traces a lifelong friendship between Sylve and Andrée, two unconventional girls who grew up in a stifling world where being a woman meant getting married or entering a convent. With a quick pace and engaging performances from the two leads, it is a journey back into the 20th century that captures two http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/04/prayers-and-thoughts-inseparables.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-2418846722632936283Sat, 12 Apr 2025 15:11:00 +00002025-04-12T16:11:03.931+01:00Emma CallanderJulia GroganLucy Mangannew writingNina CassellsSoho TheatreSophie CoxThe funny thing about three girls growing up under a tree is that you never quite know when they're being serious or just messing about. One time, they might be talking about giving blow jobs on a tennis court at school and another, they might be yearning for a connection that they can't quite explain. That's what happens in Playfight, an Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2024 hit currently showing at http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/04/more-sex-and-violence-playfight.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5594079.post-8605713801600346051Sat, 05 Apr 2025 15:47:00 +00002025-04-05T16:47:39.944+01:00FinboroughJames McDermottKacey AinsworthLiam TobinPark TheatreScott Le CrassJab takes us back to five years ago when no theatres were open. Instead, it was staying at home watching endless television, clapping for the NHS, mask-wearing and hand washing. Against this backdrop, isolation from a married couple of 29 years slowly drives them apart and to the brink. But while it captures the period well, you want to know more about this couple on the edge. It's currently http://www.paulinlondon.com/2025/04/scenes-from-marriage-jab-parktheatre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (Paul In London)