Read more about the article REVIEW: Raya, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs (2021)
Claire Price as Alex (Photo: Robert Day)

REVIEW: Raya, Hampstead Theatre Downstairs (2021)

There are too few plays which mention the menopause.  Have I lost my male readers at this point?  Please stay. In Deborah Bruce's new play Raya, the central figure Alex (Claire Price) is 49 and has just attended a reunion at her university organised on Facebook.  Thirty years on from their October start.  She has gone specifically to meet Jason (Bo Poraj) with whom she had an affair when they were undergraduates. 

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Read more about the article REVIEW: Scaramouche Jones or the Seven White Masks, Wilton’s Music Hall (2021)
Justin Butcher as Scaramouche (Photo: Josh Pulman)

REVIEW: Scaramouche Jones or the Seven White Masks, Wilton’s Music Hall (2021)

We start not with the economical "I am born" but towards his death at aged 100 years old on December 31st 1999, where he describes his visceral birth in Port O' Spain Trinidad a century earlier.  This "little oyster" is a pale skinned baby born to a "swarthy" Gypsy whore in a place that is "a fishmonger's by day and knocking shop by night".   Crinkle your noses now!

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Read more about the article NEWS: HEATHERS the Musical is back. New Cast will include Christina Bennington, Jordan Luke Gage, Jodie Steele
Previous cast of Heathers (Photo: Pam Raith)

NEWS: HEATHERS the Musical is back. New Cast will include Christina Bennington, Jordan Luke Gage, Jodie Steele

THE GIRLS ARE BACK IN TOWN …AND ON TOUR The hit musical will be playing an 12-week season at the Theatre Royal Haymarket and simultaneously touring the UK Carrie Hope…

Continue ReadingNEWS: HEATHERS the Musical is back. New Cast will include Christina Bennington, Jordan Luke Gage, Jodie Steele