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Tag Archives: horror
All My Sons leads April’s Top 10 new London shows
From Arthur Miller and Caryl Churchill to Don Quixote and zombie gore. Read my full BroadwayWorld article here
Posted in Dance, Journalism, Theatre
Tagged aint misbehavin, all my sons, almeida theatre, anne-marie duff, april, arthur darvill, arthur miller, ballet, best, Bill Pullman, book tickets, brexit, broadwayworld, cheap tickets, colin morgan, coliseum, comedy, dance, donmar warehouse, drama, enb, george a romero, horror, Jenna Coleman, kelsey grammer, london, man of la mancha, musical, national theatre, nigel slater, night of the living dead live, old vic, oti mabuse, play, pleasance theatre, recommend, sadlers wells, sale, sally field, scary bikers, she persisted, southwark playhouse, strictly, sweet charity, the other palace, theatre, three sisters, ticket deal, toast, top 10, top girls, trafalgar studios, visit london, west end, zombie
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Little Shop of Horrors, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre
The resplendent partnership of Alan Menken and Howard Ashman – which produced Disney hits Aladdin, Beauty and the Beast and The Little Mermaid – first took root with this 1982 Off-Broadway musical, based on a low-budget Sixties film, about a man seeking love and fortune via a … Continue reading
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Tagged alan menken, book tickets, comedy, drag queen, horror, howard ashman, Jemima Rooper, little shop of horrors, london, love, marc antolin, maria aberg, musical, plant, regents park open air, review, romance, sci fi, theatre, vicky vox
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John, National Theatre
Pulitzer-winning American playwright Annie Baker returns to the National – where The Flick was a quiet triumph in 2016 – with another work that is epic in form (three hours and change), but similarly spellbinding in its ability to draw an audience close. Though … Continue reading
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Tagged annie baker, broadwayworld, gettsburg, ghost, haunting, horror, james macdonald, john, june watson, london, love, national theatre, play, relationship, review, theatre
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The Homecoming, Trafalgar Studios
Welcome to the hellmouth. In Jamie Lloyd’s startling 50th anniversary revival, the seething, primal hinterland of Pinter’s domestic conflict is made flesh: the metal cage surrounding an innocuous living room glows a devilish red, sulphur-like smoke belches from the ether, … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, Theatre
Tagged 60s, brother, drama, family, father, gary kemp, gemma chan, gender, hackney, horror, jamie lloyd, john simm, keith allen, london, mother, pinter, play, review, ron cook, sex, sixties, the arts desk, the homecoming, theartsdesk, theatre, trafalgar studios, violence, west end, wife
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Downton Abbey, ITV: Alien vs. Dowager
It’s been the most heavily signposted illness in drama history. A twinge here. An “Oof” there. Chekhov’s roiling guts. And tonight, His Lordship’s mystery complaint finally took centre stage, in a scene that led one to wonder exactly how to … Continue reading
Posted in Journalism, TV
Tagged alien, blood, downton, downton abbey, film, gothic, horror, hospital, hugh bonneville, illness, itv, john hurt, movie, neville chamberlain, review, shocking, sick, the arts desk, theartsdesk, tv
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Pomona, National Theatre
Last year, new Orange Tree artistic director Paul Miller electrified his theatre by programming Alistair McDowall’s brilliant and brutal dystopian thriller. Now it occupies the National’s Temporary space, with most of its excellent original cast intact. Read my full Ham & … Continue reading
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Tagged alistair mcdowall, contemporary, crime, drama, dystopian, fantasy, game, ham and high, horror, island, lovecraft, manchester, national theatre, orange tree theatre, organ harvesting, pomona, prostitution, quest, review, rpg, sci fi, temporary space, theatre
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Mouthful, Trafalgar Studios
Metta Theatre’s didactic short plays evening takes a rigorously Poppins approach: a spoonful of drama to help the medicine go down. The sobering facts – “We need to produce more food globally by 2050 than we have done in the whole … Continue reading
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Tagged africa, bola agbaje, chocolate, clare bayley, colombia, crisis, drama, drink, dystopian, eat, eating, fair trade, farm, farming, food, future, global, horror, inua ellams, mouthful, neil labute, nigeria, play, production, review, science, scientist, theatre, trafalgar studios, tunisia, war, water, world
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Little Light, Orange Tree Theatre
The Orange Tree’s renaissance continues with this searing piece from playwright of the moment Alice Birch, who will shortly follow up last year’s subversive Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again with an interrogation of the porn industry for Rufus Norris’s debut … Continue reading
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Tagged alice birch, baby, blame, child, comedy, death, die, domestic, drama, family, grief, guilt, horror, little light, london, loss, memory, missing, national theatre, nostalgia, orange tree, parent, play, porn, pregnant, remember, review, richmond, rufus norris, sibling, sister, the arts desk, theartsdesk, theatre
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