Vicky Featherstone Archives

Gay Soper as May, Nancy Allsop as Nicky and Gemma Whelan as Yvonne. (Photo: Mark Senior)

REVIEW: This Is My Family, Southwark Elephant (2025)

Post author:Malcolm Beckett
Post published:29 May 2025
Post category:London but not West End Musical Review

My Family's Ideal Holiday? "Show me a man who could not follow a diagram and I will show you a man who could never give a girl a good time"Sian…

Michelle Butterly as Carmel, Jodie McNee as Sarah, Sue Jenkins as Doreen and Emma Harrison as Megyn (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: Cuckoo, Royal Court (2023)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:16 July 2023
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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Texting but not communicating "We had to exclude two more pupils today. One brought in a meat cleaver . . . Both six”Sarah Michelle Butterly as Carmel, Jodie McNee as…

Ria Zimitrowicz as The Woman and Rakie Ayola as Mrs Lyall (Photo: Manuel Harlan)

REVIEW: The Glow, Royal Court (2022)

Post author:Lizzie Loveridge
Post published:29 January 2022
Post category:London but not West End Play Review
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In Alistair McDowell's new play, The Glow a mysterious woman (Ria Zmitrowicz) finds herself in different scenarios from Life with the Cavemen to the present day. We first meet her incarcerated in an asylum like Bedlam where Mrs Lyall (Rakie Ayola) a well known spiritualist will rescue her and train her as an assistant in her sessions as a medium.