John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
John Cutler’s London Theatre Reviews.
Recent Reviews
The Hunger Artist. Etcetera Theatre.
Franz Kafka’s trademark absurdity, sense of alienation from society, and all-pervading tone of anxiety are omnipresent in his final published short [...]
Joe Carstairs. Omnibus Theatre.
The ninth annual 96 Festival, Omnibus Theatre’s month-long “celebration of queerness and theatre” kicks off with Joe Carstairs, a verbose, polemical [...]
The Work We Do. White Bear Theatre.
Cerys Jones agreeable comedy drama The Work We Do sees an odd-couple of voice actors meet for the first time at [...]
Houdini’s Greatest Escape. King’s Head Theatre.
Feargus Woods Dunlop’s spoof detective comedy Houdini’s Great Escape sees the famous escapologist and wife Bess on a pre-first world war [...]
So Help Me Dog. Hens and Chickens Theatre.
Writer Dean Stalham used to be a career criminal. In 2002 he was sentenced to three and a half years in [...]
That’s a Bit of Sheer Luck. Old Red Lion Theatre.
It is elementary to see why Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes attracts so many parody writers. Disney’s done it expertly with The [...]
Lie Low. Royal Court Theatre.
First seen at Dublin Fringe in 2022, Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s pitch dark and deeply unsettling absurdist comedy-drama Lie Low finally makes [...]
Don’t Take The Pith. Drayton Arms Theatre.
Husband and wife writer Peter Rae and director Helen Bang garnered solid reviews and a Best Comedy London Pub Theatre Awards [...]
Girls Really Listen to Me. Pleasance Theatre.
“It’s boring being hotter and smarter than all of your classmates” 16 year-old rich kid Maddie tells us between selfies and [...]