Marion Haque as Louie and Simon Robson as Sharp (Photo: Robert Day)
REVIEW: FOLK, Hampstead Theatre (2022)
The Origins of Folk Music "When I was a girl I used to walk up the lanes and listen to the birds and I'd make tunes from their cries. And…
Tamsin Greig as Peggy Ramsay and Jos Vantyler as Philip (Photo: Helen Maybanks)
REVIEW: Peggy For You, Hampstead Theatre (2021)
She liked difference and edginess: hence her taking on Caryl Churchill, Edward Bond and Joe Orton. She famously fell out with Prick Up Your Ears playwright John Lahr about Orton. In the opening scene she has been up all night to go to a police station, where she obtained bail for one of her authors.
Laurie Kynaston as Melchior (Photo: Marc Brenner)
REVIEW: Spring Awakening, Almeida (2021)
The score is alternative rock by Duncan Sheik with the book and lyrics by Steven Sater. There is a beautiful clarity to the sung words. It is pretty raunchy stuff with scenes of sado-masochism and masturbation but it has an honesty lacking in society then, and to a lesser extent, now.