RED BUS LONDINIUM Reviews

  • Review: Electra / Persona, National Theatre ★★★

    Review: Electra/Persona at the National Theatre is a showcase of its two stars’ talent, but does not sufficiently justify the union of the two pieces.

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  • Review: The Pass, Pearly Queen Theatre  ★★★½

    Review: The Pass at the new and intimate Pearly Queen Theatre immerses audiences in footballer Jason’s emotional journey, exploring sexuality and isolation.

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  • Review: Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater, Legacy, Sadler’s Wells ★★★★½

    Review: Currently at Sadler’s Wells, sixty-eight years old and Alvin Ailey’s Amercian Dance Theatre still feels relevant and fresh. Revelations proving a transcendent centrepiece.

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  • Review: Darkling, Bush Theatre ★★★★

    Review: Linnea Berthelsen is fiercely brave in Darkling, a devastating Bhopal disaster one-woman play by Titas Halder at Bush Theatre.

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  • Review: For Colored Girls who have considered suicide /  when the rainbow is enuf, Yard Theatre ★★★★

    Review: The Yard Theatre production is a welcome opportunity to see Ntozake Shange’s seminal For Colored Girls who have considered suicide /  when the rainbow is enuf

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  • Review: Tartuffe (remixed), Marylebone Theatre ★★★½

    Review: Tartuffe (Remixed) modernises Molière’s play, exploring faith and manipulation in a Nigerian/ Jamaican family context and showcasing talented new actors from the Intermission charity.

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  • Review: The Tempest, Golden Hinde ★★★★

    Review: The Tempest on the Golden Hinde (part of the Totally Thames Festival) is a genuine celebration of the boat, the area and Shakespeare.

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  • Review: Death Note, Barbican ★★★

    Review: Death Note at the Barbican is visually stunning but has lost some of the nuance and cultural specificity of the anime original

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  • Review: Cats, Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre, ★★★★

    Review: Cats at the Open Air Theatre is a piece of whimsical, light-hearted fun with a fiercely feline but also immensely vigorous ensemble

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  • Camden Fringe Review: How Do I Love thee? ★★★★

    Camden Fringe review: an accomplished debut by Aside Hustle using the words of Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning to tell their story

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  • Camden Fringe Review: Chicken Dropping ★★★½

    Camden Fringe Review: In Chicken Dropping, writer Dongmeng Chen uses chickens and eggs to expose wider questions about how we respond to war

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  • Camden Fringe Review: Your Favo(u)rite American Woman ★★★★

    Camden Fringe review: Ciarlene Coleman’s second solo show, Your Favo(u)rite American Woman capably tells a personal story and opens a wider lens on Western attitudes towards the Philippines

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  • Camden Fringe Review: Mates, ★★★★½

    Camden Fringe review: Mates is a fiercely well-constructed and agile comedy. Over an hour of mayhem and chaos, we really come to care.

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  • Review: How the Other half Loves, Old Vic ★★★★

    Review: How the Other half Loves at the Old Vic is a spritely, well-choreographed suburban comedy

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  • Camden Fringe Review: Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers, ★★★★

    Camden Fringe review: Love vs Fear and My Mother’s Prayers blends computer games into the story of 20-something Kike and her search for love

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  • Camden Fringe Review, TAPE ★★★½

    Camden Fringe Review: In a seedy hotel room, Tape asks deep questions about what is truth when we all remember things differently.

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  • Camden Fringe Review, Wilder! ★★★½

    Camden Fringe Review, Wilder! Mean Girls for the middle classes as murder and mayhem pile up.

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  • Camden Fringe Review: The Barber of Seville, Opera Kipling ★★★★

    Review: Opera Kipling bring a swinging sixties Barber of Seville to Camden Fringe, strongly sung and a real treat up close.

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