Bitch Boxer is a piece about a London teenage female boxer. She has fought many fights and with one more victory she can achieve the highest honour and compete at the Olympics in London 2012. The piece isn’t as much about boxing as it is about her adolescent circumstances, puppy love and the death of [...] Read more »
Lady Rizo at the Soho Theatre
I was excited to see Lady Rizo at the Soho Theatre, not because I knew of her work, but because of all the acclaim I had heard about her work. She is a cabaret singer who has quite an extensive track record in the US, her time at Soho Theatre is her London debut. Now, there [...] Read more »
Forbidden Review
‘Forbidden’ works on the premise that there are some subjects that are taboo in story telling, some notions better left unsaid, some fears that shouldn’t be woken. Unsurprisingly the show unearths incestual passion, precocious birth, starved madness, sexualised mutations and misdirected good intentions. The flighty ascent to Soho’s highest performance space prompted tuts and ‘not another [...] Read more »
A Clockwork Orange
The breathtaking all-male version of A Clockwork Orange makes its London debut following its five-star, sell-out Edinburgh run in. This electrifying and testosterone-filled physical theatre horrorshow exquisitely captures and transcends the spirit of Anthony Burgess’ original literary masterpiece, 50 years on from its publication. We have found this show reviewed on a number of websites and [...] Read more »
Sports Play Review
This particular representation of Jelinek’s iconic script was not a full production, it was a script reading. I did not know it was going to be a simple reading before going and I was kind of disappointed when I found out. When I entered the Soho Theatre’s upstairs space I was instantly smiling, there was a [...] Read more »
“Utopia” Review
Ah, “Utopia”: ‘An ideal community or society’. Such a shame the performance at the Soho Theatre didn’t follow suit. Such high hopes, such disappointment. I was desperate to see it purely because of the title. I like to think I know quite a bit about Utopias, Dystopias and even Hetrotopias. Just because I’m a bit of [...] Read more »
STOP!…. You’re killing me! Review
Stop!… You’re Killing Me! Is a bit like what would happen if an old fashioned Carry On Movie married a 1950s Hollywood Romance and then had an affair with Bertie Wooster. John Hewer’s script is rife with word play, sexual puns, satire, cliché and red herrings. There’s even a pantomime horse! All bunged together to tell [...] Read more »
A Song Cycle For Soho Review
I was a little disappointed by Song Cycle for Soho; a musical about the history of Soho that merges fiction with non-fiction. Stories about the area were told in songs that alternated between black comedy, sleazy cabaret and cheesy Disney-ish. Songs about love, loneliness, death, murder, drugs and crime. The singing was great and so were [...] Read more »
