Review: DAN TIERNAN: GOING UNDER, Soho TheatreJanuary 15, 2024'Going from being a dinner lady to a full-time comedian? It may be more likely than you think. Dan Tiernan: Going Under, gives the Edinburgh Comedy Award Best Newcomer-nominated comic a solid debut hour discussing how the past year of his life has gone. '
Review: TATTY MACLEOD: FUGUE, Soho TheatreJanuary 12, 2024'As soon as I saw the description of Tatty Macleod: Fugue, I knew that I wanted to see the show. Having lived in the United States, France and now England, I was interested in seeing how Macleod would take her online sketches discussing how English culture differs from French culture to the stage.'
Review: UROOJ ASHFAQ: OH NO!, Soho TheatreJanuary 12, 2024'Urooj Ashfaq, winner of Best Newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, has brought her show, Oh No!, to the Soho Theatre. She was originally a part of Soho Theatre through Soho Theatre India, which has introduced over 30 Indian acts to the UK.'
Review: HOW TO FLIRT: THE TED XXX-MAS EDITION, Soho TheatreDecember 18, 2023How to Flirt: The Ted XXX-mas Edition, written and performed by Daisy Doris May, is a drag king show that brings audience members into a university-style seminar on how to properly flirt with women. The teacher? Steven Porters, a “self-taught feminist” who has seen the error of his ways and is determined to show women that he is worthy of love.
Review: SPY MOVIE: THE PLAY!, The Hope TheatreDecember 13, 2023The “greatest spy movie never made” revolves around writer Ian Flemish and real-life spy, Jane Blonde. A group of villains known by EVIW is using the adventures of Flemish’s main character, spy Dick Hardwood, as inspiration for their own evil schemes, and Flemish and Blonde must stop them before they get their hands on his latest work.
Review: MAT EWINS: MR TIKTOK*, Soho TheatreDecember 8, 2023Mat Ewins: Mr. TikTok* is a fun hour of comedy that packs as many jokes as it possibly can into its running time, using a brilliant combination of technology, pranks, and a brilliant tech partner. Not including the strange ending, it may have been one of my favourite comedy shows of the year.
Review: DICK WHITTINGTON, The Arts Centre HounslowDecember 8, 2023As someone who moved to the UK last year, I’m still getting used to the tradition of pantomimes but have fallen in love with their boundless energy and cheesy jokes. Recently, I attended a 10:30 AM performance of Dick Whittington at the Arts Centre Hounslow, where I was one of two adults who was not there as part of a giant school group.
Review: JOSH GLANC: COLLECTIONS 2023, Soho TheatreDecember 5, 2023After a run at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Josh Glanc has brought Collections 2023 to Soho Theatre, showing off a collection of characters and silly sketches. It was quite a relief to be going to a show with no plot where I could simply sit and watch a comedian play a range of roles without the stereotypical “dark ending” found in Fringe shows.
Review: PETER PAN GOES WRONG, Lyric TheatreNovember 29, 2023Written by Mischief trio Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry Shields and directed by Adam Meggido, Peter Pan Goes Wrong brings the Cornley Polytechnic gang back to the West End, this time taking on the “traditional Christmas vignette,” definitely not a pantomime, as Director Chris Bean emphatically informs the audience.
Review: DAN LEES: THE VINYL COUNTDOWN, Soho TheatreNovember 27, 2023The Vinyl Countdown has a fascinating concept - Dan Lees has picked several vinyl records from a record shop and is going to recreate them for an audience in “a riotous night of musical mayhem and clowning.” If you had not read the summary of the show beforehand, you would have spent the first several minutes wondering exactly what was going on.
Review: NIAMH DENYER: GET BLESSED!, Pleasance TheatreNovember 27, 2023If you’ve ever wanted to learn how to properly deliver a funeral, look no further than “top celebrant Áine Reilly.” In Nimah Denyer: Get Blessed!, Denyer becomes Áine, presenting her course on funerals to a crowd of eager participants. The whole show is a part of Áine’s series on “how to become a generic spiritual celebrant.'