Written for What’s On Stage Two worlds collide at the Lyric Hammersmith this Christmas. Aladdin is an X Factor style mash-up of street hip-hop and traditional panto. It’s a rocky union but eventually, just like the Princess, you’ll be won over. Initially Steve Marmion, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm and Joel Horwood let the street vibe take over. Hip-hop stereotypes are thrust into our faces with [...]
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Review: Aladdin at the Lyric Hammersmith
Posted in Reviews, tagged Aladdin, Lyric Hammersmith, Panto on December 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Punk Rock at The Lyric Hammersmith
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged Lyric, Lyric Hammersmith, Punk Rock, Sarah Frankcom, Simon Stephens, Spring Awakening, The Public Reviews on September 11, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Like an open wound that is scratched and pressed in front of you, some moments of Punk Rock are unbearable to be put through and watch. The continual intensity, which simmers below the pithy surface of Simon Stephens’ new play, the sexual games, status plays and open bursts of bullying aggression, all add to a [...]
Exeunt Critics’ Picks of 2011
Posted in Comment, tagged Arcola, Barbican, Bishopsgate Institute Library, Bristol Old Vic Studio, Bush Theatre, Cambridge Theatre, Carmel Doohan, Chichester Festival Theatre, Clybourne Park, Daniel B Yates, Ectasy, Every Rendition on a Broken Machine, Exeunt, Fanta Orange, Finborough Theatre, Forest Fringe, Going Dark, Hamlet, Hampstead Theatre, Jay Miller, Jerusalem, Julia Rank, Landor Theatre, Landscape/Monologue, Lines, Lois Jeary, London Road, Lyric Hammersmith, Made In China, Matilda, Mission Drift, Much Ado About Nothing, Natasha Tripney, National Theatre, Neil Dowden, One Man Two Guvnors, Ragtime, Rosemary Branch Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Saved, Schaubuhne Berlin, She Loves Me, She She Pop and Their Fathers: Testament, Stationary Excess, Stewart Pringle, The Church of St Thomas The Martyr, The Guild of Cheesemakers, The Quiet Volume, The Seagull, The Village Bike, The Wild Bride, The Yard, this is where we got to when you came in, Tom Philips, Tracey Sinclair, Traverse Theatre, Ustinov Theatre, Young Vic on December 22, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
LOTS of fabulous picks here by some people who really know their stuff including some expected and not so expected pieces. Wish I could have mentioned London Road, wish I could have seen Mission Drift… Originally published on Exeunt Of course we are wary of the arbitrary nature of these things, the artificiality of seasons, [...]
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