I reviewed theatre in London for just over a year. In that time I wrote 58 reviews, which averaged out about one a week. In truth, the volume of plays came in waves.
It started with a surreal cabaret that involved cross-dressing Rasputin with a wooly willy and ended in the joke "Campanology is a great way to hang out at the weekend with big dongs."
Highs along the way included a tight horror story, a moving tale of a piano, a court masque and a three person Dickens show.
Low points included a repeated question about a mouse, a badly rehearsed thing in a tower block and tiring relationship drama with not enough aliens.
Now I am a long way away from the bright(ish) lights and pub backrooms and, to be honest, I miss it a little. However, I am in a play - and every time I sat to review a piece of theatre, I had a yearning to be in one.
However, for my own use more than anything else, here is a clickable list of everything I reviewed in that time.
- Thick & Tight: Tits & Teeth: A Retrospective of a Dazzling Career
- I Fucked You in My Spaceship
- David Copperfield
- Home X
- Healing King Herod
- Caligula and the Sea
- Clementine
- The Blue Pool of Questions
- How To Be a Pirate
- The Black Cat
- Creature
- Sasha Ellen: Character Building Experience
- Quality Street
- The Rotting Hart
- Sweeney Todd
- Glory Ride
- Candy Gigi: Friday Night Sinner
- Venus and Adonis
- Stuart Michael: Psychic Medium
- Frankie & Beausy
- Hope Has a Happy Meal
- Lost in Music
- Mrs Doubtfire
- Cheesy Cheesy Catchy Mousey
- Touch Miracle
- Tarantino Live
- Sh!t-Faced Shakespeare: Much Ado About Nothing
- Illusionaries Presents: Memoirs of a Dead Poet
- 80s Live
- Defective Inspector: A Stitch in Time
- King Stakh's Wild Hunt
- Compositor E
- Oubliette
- Trompe-L'oeil
- Amendments - A Play on Words
- Elephant
- Guy Fawkes It Up
- Monster Show
- The Devil's Passion
- To Have and to Hold
- A Brief History of Chairs
- Cinderella
- Odyssey: A Heroic Pantomime
- Moth
- Macbeth
- Fire, Embers, Ash
- Dear Adult
- DIY
- Frank Skinner: 30 Years of Dirt
- The Life and Death of Richard III
- Slush Pile
- Puddles Pity Party
- Company Wayne McGregor: Universe: A Dark Crystal Odyssey
- Mind Mangler: Member of the Tragic Circle
- Deaf as a Post
- Agathe
- The Fairy Queen
- Clinton Baptiste: Roller Ghoster
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