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Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon post-show video and photos: What advice would you give your 13-year-old self?

By |2022-03-23T15:16:04+00:0016 February 2022|Tags: , , , , , , |

Rosie Day's wonderful rollercoaster ride of a debut play Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, which she also performs, ends with the by-then 16-year-old protagonist writing a letter of advice to her younger self (and younger stepsister). 

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon

By |2022-01-27T23:14:28+00:0015 February 2022|Tags: , , , , |

Instructions for a Teenage Armageddon, the sell-out solo show written and performed by Rosie Day that also spawned the non-fiction guide of the same name, returns to London for a limited run at Southwark Playhouse. 

Operation Mincemeat: Oh my god, this World War II escapade actually happened?

By |2022-02-13T23:27:43+00:0013 February 2022|Tags: , , , , |

I have a sneaking suspicion that we have not seen the last of this little musical gem, which is - incredibly - inspired by a real-life World War II espionage episode demonstrating British pluck and eccentricity in spades. 

The Last Five Years: The piano is the new star in Jason Robert Brown’s two-hander

By |2021-09-27T11:09:49+01:0027 September 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , , , , |

There's a line in The Last Five Years, Jason Robert Brown's semi-autobiographical musical two-hander about a relationship breakdown, that gets me every time.

Salome post-show video and photos: Revisiting Oscar Wilde’s once-banned erotic classic

By |2021-09-11T11:38:47+01:002 September 2021|Tags: , , , , , , , |

How far are you willing to go to get what you most desire? That’s the question at the bloody heart of Salome. And it’s a question that so fascinates Lazarus Theatre that they’re now having a third go at Oscar Wilde’s provocative 1891 tragedy.

John & Jen: Rachel Tucker is the only incentive musical theatre fans should need

By |2021-08-04T10:06:49+01:004 August 2021|Tags: , , , , , |

As much as I was looking for any excuse to return to Southwark, it was the show that lured me back. Or to be more precise, Rachel Tucker starring in the show, musical two-hander John & Jen.

COPS post-show video and photos: What is an “actor’s play” and why are there so few of them?

By |2020-01-26T19:54:16+00:0018 January 2020|Tags: , , , |

To me, COPS, set in 1950s Chicago, comes across as so authentically period that it feels like it must be a finely minted revival. But it’s not: it’s a new play. Even more surprising then that it’s written by an author I’d never heard of before.
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