521 stories by "Shanine Salmon"
Unicorn Theatre's magical production of The Iron Man is simply oozing with creativity. Adapted from the Ted Hughes novel of the same name, the simple story follows an iron giant who befriend…
In a world of people singing along to musical theatre and drunkenly shouting to actors in passive productions (I've been to Rocky Horror so I am saying nothing) it is nice that there is an o…
After a sell-out run at the 2016 Edinburgh Comedy Festival, Britney comes to London as the part of the Vaults Festival. It is a sketch show with a difference, all the sketchs are about Britn…
Based on a true story this has been marketed as a look at British prison life, the issue is that Brown's two-hander, with Mark Wingett (Jim Carver in The Bill) as her jailbird father Terry d…
Almost five years after its award-winning run at Soho Theatre, Richard Marsh and Katie Bonna's autobiographical two-hander returns to London, now at the Arts Theatre on the West End. The pla…
Adrian Lukis and Jill Winternitz star in the UK premiere of Halley Feiffer's I'm Gonna Pray For You So Hard, opening at London's Finborough Theatre in February.
Writing about sex is never easy, staging sex harder still (no pun intended), and I'm not sure if trying to make all this sex comedic makes it better or worse. Sex is inherently funny (and I …
First published in 1928 (having been banned and rejected for its sheer filth) this adaptation embraces the rhythm of the Joseph Moncure March narrative poem and of the time but whilst Anna C…
Some theatre leaves an indelible mark on you, changes your perspective on life, art, politics or philosophy, or challenges your innermost perceptions of yourself and the world you live in. O…
Raising Martha is a production that has been hit by various casting changes, firstly Morgana Robinson was replaced by Game of Throne's Gwyneth Keyworth and in a less high profile change Jasp…
Andrew Maddock is one of my favourite new writers. He seems to focus on people, rather than characters and stories over storylines. His new play He(art), produced by Lonesome Schoolboy, is a…
Thick and Thin's comedy about a zombie outbreak and the pharma industry feels like an extended comedy sketch but it has a lot of potential to be a funny and clever look at healthcare in a ca…
Shiny Pin Productions, in partnership with the Park Theatre's The Albatross 3rd & Main is a gritty black comedy looking at US federal law, crime and golden eagles. Does it soar or is th…
Much like the play's own traumatised characters, Stuart Slade's BU21 feels precarious, but ultimately achieves great depth through cathartic honesty. The intimate six-hander, now playing at …
Veterans Day is appropriately timed revival that shows not much has changed when dealing with members of the armed services post-conflict.
The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, Tony Harrison's 1998 will either divide or conquer its audience with its intense performances and its rhyming couplets.
I failed to really research this produ…
An Inspector Calls is a haunting look at the gaps in society and this production is a timely and important reminder that not much has changed since its 1912 setting, its 1945 premiere or eve…
Much has, and will, be written about Riley's performance, specifically her vocals, and rightly so. But this is no one-woman show. Director Casey Nicholaw has assembled a supremely (geddit) t…
The trust that runs Edinburgh's Leith Theatre has announced best-selling Trainspotting author - and locally born - Irvine Welsh as its Patron. Welsh has issued a message of support for the t…
My blog has only been going since April 2016 so it isn't a comprehensive look at the hits and misses of the year. I saw 80 shows this year, across London and the South East of England.
Kiki's Delivery Service, based on Eiko Kadono's novel and adapted by Jessican Sian, owes a lot to Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time but it is a fun, and times moving, piece of th…
