REVIEW RATE SCALES (PINNED)
A brief explanation of how the reviews are rated...
DON QUIXOTE (Royal Ballet)
A spectacular treat of precise dancing and artistic expression...
OUR VOICES (English National Ballet)
Beautiful dancing coupled with choreography that's not always as clear as you'd like it to be...
KING STAKH’S WILD HUNT
A spectacular feast for the eyes with a cohesive plot weaved from an engaging story...
FRANK AND PERCY
A hysterically funny, if sometimes touchingly sad, take on loss, getting old, and finding oneself...
PYGMALION
A part-period part-modern piece that doesn't quite settle on one or the other...
GOD OF CARNAGE
Good acting hampered by terrible sightlines and bland script about adults acting like children...
VANYA
A streamlined and modernised adaptation that begs the question of why it needed to be written...
A MIRROR
A provocative piece about writers and the stories they create, slightly let down by a wobbly middle...
THE ARC: A TRILOGY OF NEW JEWISH PLAYS
A trilogy of funny, quirky, and entertaining short plays meant to showcase the Jewish outlook on things...
THE EFFECT
A fluffy play masquerading as a deep analysis of human relationships...
JEWELS (The Australian Ballet)
A beautiful, if slightly uneven, performance of Balanchine's classic...
THE ROYAL BALLET SCHOOL SUMMER PERFORMANCE (Royal Ballet)
A spectacular evening of joyous ballet performances...
CUCKOO
Cluky, muddled, and largely pointless script about pitfalls of modern technology dragged along by excellent cast...
DEAR ENGLAND
The story of the England's football team that's full of inside jokes and cheap laughs, most of which aren't funny unless you're a massive football fan...
DR SEMMELWEIS
A surprisingly engaging, if somewhat fictionalised, retelling of the life story of the 19th century Hungarian pioneer of antiseptic procedures on obstetrics...
A REPORT TO AN ACADEMY (Berlin)
A crazy evening of laughs and nudity that's part-Kafka, part-Johanna Höhmann's imagination...
LONELY LIVES (Berlin)
Creatively staged story of loneliness slightly marred by unnecessary comedic injections...
THE SEAGULL (Berlin)
An emotionally charged and visually sumptuous production of this classic...
THE PILLOWMAN
Strong revival of this clever dark comedy hampered by the unnecessary gender recast...
THE SUICIDE
A capable cast let down by a joyless script and dreadful direction...
UNTITLED, 2023 / CORYBANTIC GAMES / ANASTASIA ACT III (Royal Ballet)
A fresh and exciting second act trapped in a boredom sandwich with a muddled piece of modern dance and a mediocre playacting...
DEDICATION
A touching tribute to family history and tragedy told through music...
ROSE
A brilliantly told story of a woman's journey to find her identity, heritage, and purpose...
PATRIOTS (Redux)
A captivating story of Russian oligarchs, political patsies, principled martyrs, all of whom see themselves as "patriots"...
WHEN WINSTON WENT TO WAR WITH THE WIRELESS
A historical play that lulls you into thinking it might be about Churchill, but it really isn't and suffers for it...
THE VORTEX
A play that has aged well, yet lost some of its shock value, wonderfully executed by a talented cast...
4000 MILES
A mediocre play bolstered by a masterclass in acting ends up a very enjoyable take on different generations coping with life...
A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE
A minimalistic staging of the classic that has a lot of hype but doesn't feel subtle enough to truly captivate...
PLAYAI
A bizarre production of a mediocre ChatGPT-written play that is not helped by a lacklustre cast...
THE MOTIVE AND THE CUE
A cleverly-written and mostly well-acted story of clashing egos set against the backdrop of Hamlet...