521 stories by "Shanine Salmon"
Essentially, Jack Stanley's Catastrophists is Abigail's Party with survivalists for neighbours. Raf and Harry are the upwardly mobile young couple whose aspirational lifestyle encompasses we…
Pageant is a revival of a musical first performed off-Broadway in 1991, and it’s telling that this drag satire on the culture of women as decoration still feels biting 26 years later. …
‘I ran as fast as I could. I ran and I ran and I ran until I couldn’t run anymore…’ Lonesome Schoolboy return to Theatre N16, after He(art), with Olympiads. A tale ab…
What a horrifying title but as Hair announces a one off ‘Clothes Optional’ performance on 11 November. Is there anything theatre won’t do to attract new and alternative aud…
Boom is a play unsure of itself. Is it a story of Adam and Eve in the time of Craigslist? Is it a biting satire on cultural and biological heritage when everyone is ignorant about where they…
Having never read a David Walliams book before I did not know what to expect from the stage adaptation, so I took along a young person who had. Here is what they had to say.
The Dark Side of Mime is an alarming prospect. I've always thought there was something slightly sinister about the traditional white-faced mime act, looking like some kind of anachronistic v…
Where King Kong really impresses is in its creative staging, with resourceful use of stage space by director Owen Lewis and designer Simon Scullion.
The slow reveal of Sonia's growing love for George is well played by Cressida Bonas, who by the end of this story seems like a woman who'd kill to protect her man. Peter Hamilton Dyer is als…
The Wasp is a play better plotted than it is written. The storyline kept me gripped and the acting was impressive, but the characterisation was far too broad and likely to fall into lazy ste…
Walking into the tiny Finborough theatre for this revived Edwardian play is very much like stepping back in time. Music hall classics play as the audience assembles, and the pub's own orname…
Two strangers have met for an internet-arranged one-night stand in Belfast. Janet is dressed as a mouse. Declan is married. In those awkward moments after the sex they talk and argue, exposi…
Bechdel Theatre is looking at the Bechdel Test in life. The test is usually associated with the screen following Alison Bechdel's 1985 comic strip looking at the failure of women to find a t…
Leaf is hard to categorise " part comedy play, part sketch show, part mess. Its publicity tag-line likens it to "the bastard child of Monty Python and the Mighty Boosh", which proved surpris…
I think like many British people of a certain age I know Lucy but lack of constant re-runs in the UK means I don't love her. I do know she paved the way for many female comics and was a graf…
Taking the form of a series of briefings to the US troops " that's us, the audience " and including cross dressing, slapstick and audience interaction, Instructions for American Servicemen i…
Kevin Elyot could quite possibly be a national treasure now, had he not died three years ago. His plays are instantly accessible, entertainingly written and have lots of lovely wordplay. ââ…
Pig and Runt were born within minutes of each other in the same Cork hospital ward. They grew up closer than siblings, closer that twins, an incestuous blood pact made amongst the sweat and …
The Witch's Mark, written and directed by Timothy N. Evers, draws inspiration from historical and contemporary accounts of the Scottish witch trials. Edinburgh in 1591, is in the middle of a…
Written as a response to George W Bush's Republican Party's war on terror following the attacks in September 2001 only 12 years after this play's premiere America seems to be run by a God of…
Guardian critic Michael Billington recently brought back his bizarre alter-ego, a young woman named Helena, for his review of Fatherland at the Manchester International Festival.
Helen Edmundson's play is a study in humanity's need for dominance, especially as much as it is a historical romp.
What sets Yank! apart is that this is more than a campy boy meets boy tale amongst the khakis and star and stripes but a no holds barred look at LGBT history, it even includes a bit of L.
The warnings of full frontal nudity shouldn't deter people from seeing this but nor should it be the only reason to see this (Naked Attraction is on All 4, everyone) because this play, about…
Theatre N16's small space isn't easy to navigate. Set design options are limited and plays with may locations and scenes should probably avoid this space but Monkhead Theatre have found a si…
