521 stories by "Shanine Salmon"
Monolog at the Chickenshed Theatre presents several different monologues written by well-known and new writers, showcasing monologues in a variety of formats.
Monorogue's new show The Morning After provides us with an opportunity to eavesdrop on the comings and goings of 'The Love Clinic' on the day after Valentine's Day.
Catherine Lucie's's new play " The Moor at the Red Lion Theatre " pulls off the excellent trick, of giving the audience a denouement that resolves the mystery, while still maintaining the po…
Mad as Hell's greatest insight and piece of biographical excavation is that Peter Finch needed to feel his wife Eletha Barrett's absence to hit the mark of the tortured mad preacher of Paddy…
For a variety of all too female reasons, I wasn't much looking forward to going out to the theatre to see Bicycles & Fish at The Vaults. But I did. And I laughed, I cried, and at the en…
Think of England at the Vault Festival isn't a hopeless play, but it isn't ready yet. At present, it doesn't know what it wants to be. To succeed, the company needs to take it beyond the wor…
It's a bad idea, if your play's called The Boring Room (at The Vaults), to draw attention to how boring it is. It's an even worse mistake to bookend your play with the word "bullshit". It's …
NeverLand at the Vault Festival is admirably ambitious, but it's hard not to feel that a narrower focus would have stopped its reach from exceeding its grasp.
A charming and funny evening, then. We're indebted to the Finborough for plucking Cyril's Success from obscurity. See it while you can.
The problem is, this was a play as light and frothy as Lydia Bennet, while what I want is a Lizzie.
Brad Birch's Black Mountain and Sarah McDonald-Hughes' How To Be a Kid are two new plays being performed by Paines Plough at the Orange Tree Theatre.
There is no option of falling asleep because if you aren't being shoved around as if on a rush hour tube then gunfire is constantly going off. Being in the pit is an intensely exciting and q…
Terry Johnson's Ken serves as a nice introduction to Ken Campbell or for those that knew him it's a reminder of the impact his work had on many performers, writers and directors, but he dese…
But you'll have heard " Naomi Westerman's one-woman show Double Infemnity, at The Vaults, is more than a pun, it's a feminist take on a male genre.
Revolution is a Blockbusters-inspired game played in a suitably austere, bare brick environment; the kind of locale suited to an underground gathering of would-be revolutionaries.
Jennifer Maisel's play There or Here, at the Park Theatre, is a multi-layered narrative shot through with humour, some of it scathing, including a lot of witty one-liners.
Lanie Robertson's 2005 bio-monologue about Peggy Guggenheim could be just another 'poor rich girl' tale, but in Guggenheim and in the performance from Judy Rosenblatt we see not only a tale …
What is bizarre is that a lot of online bloggers found themselves on this 'banned' list despite having three press nights, with ample standing room.
Bunny at the Tristan Bates Theatre is a clever, ambitious, funny and scary piece of theatre, delivered with grit and integrity by a superb actor.
Overall, this play has a timely and well-delivered message particularly in the second half of the drama which held my attention throughout and brought new meaning to the phrase "death by Pow…
East is arguably a Hobbesian perspective of some white working-class East Enders whose lives are "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish and short" due to being marginalised from mainstream society.
I've never been to an immersive production that brings the audience into the drama quite as much as Keep Calm and Carry On.
Lobster is a tale of what happens when opposites attract and the compromises couples make to ensure the relationship survives. This looks rather sadly at what happens when those compromises …
Elizabeth Chan's performance as Iris Chang in Into the Numbers is a convincing portrayal of mental illness but the lack of background to her story doesn't give the gravitas this production d…
It's a tale about obsession, madness and paranoia. Charley comes to believe the egg is, in fact, a Martian surveillance device, with the 'canals' observed on Mars actually being the shadows …
