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Friday, May 27, 2016

Review: Knife Edge, Pond Dalston by Holly O'Mahony

Knife Edge features chicken and chips, and big dreams for a girl who knows she deserves more from life than the abandonment and abuse she's received thus far. The play is produced by The Big…

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Review: A View From Islington North, Arts Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

Labour rebels, a bereaved mother of a blown-up soldier and a disconnected upper middle class couple all feature in the first half of Out of Joint's A View From Islington North. In the latter…

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Sunday, May 22, 2016

Review: This is Living, Trafalgar Studios by Holly O'Mahony

Alice is sprawled face down on the water-soaked tarpaulin. Her husband Michael sits cross-legged watching her. She’s dead, and Michael must move on, eventually. But what if he’s …

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Thursday, May 12, 2016

Bright Fringe Review: Aphrodite in Flippers, The Warren by Holly O'Mahony

Something's not right with Georgie. She's turning 40 and she's lost her heart, hope and other h's along the way. The post Bright Fringe Review: Aphrodite in Flippers, The Warren appeared fi…

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Wednesday, May 11, 2016

Brighton Festival Review: Dirt, The Warren by Holly O'Mahony

James Cairns' solo performance in Nick Warren's Dirt is a Brighton Fringe must see, with Cairns asserting his talent for physical comedy, characterisation, accents and dynamic facial express…

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Tuesday, May 10, 2016

Brighton Fringe Review: The Conscious Uncoupling, The Duke Box Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

"Have you ever been dumped?" Rosie Wilby asks the room of anonymous faces, coaxing us to open up before delving into her own five year relationship and subsequent breakup with an ex-girlfrie…

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Brighton Fringe Review: Garden, Sweet Waterfront 2 by Holly O'Mahony

Is the nine to five routine a mistake that's gone on so long it's now too embarrassing to fix? Lucy is an office manager at an asset management firm, by title that is. However she's not prep…

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Brighton Festival Review: Woman's Hour, Marlborough Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

Batting crumpets and punchy satire at their audience, fiery feminist duo Louise Mothersole and Rebecca Biscuit " aka Sh!t Theatre " bring their boot-stompingly fun show Women's Hour to the B…

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Brighton Festival Review: The Marked, The Warren by Holly O'Mahony

The Marked weaves fantasy and fairy-tale into a story set on the streets of modern day London. Jack (Samuel Fogell) is a prince-cum-man who has grown up in the grasps of a damaged queen, his…

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Sunday, May 8, 2016

Review: Dancing in the Dark, 41 Hollingbury Park Avenue by Holly O'Mahony

Wired Theatre's Dancing in the Dark takes us behind closed doors to tell a story of a dysfunctional, middle-class family consisting of a mother and her three grown-up children. Set in Bright…

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Review: Shit-faced Shakespeare, Leicester Square Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

You may well have heard of, or seen, a production of Shit-faced Shakespeare before. Well, it's back in time for Shakespeare 400 celebrations, and this time in the form of Magnificent Bastard…

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Sunday, April 24, 2016

Review: Down and Out in Paris and London, New Diorama Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

George Orwell, under his birth name Eric Blair, quit his middle-class life to live amongst the poor whilst writing his 1933 novel Down and Out in Paris and London. Nearly a hundred years lat…

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Saturday, April 23, 2016

Review: Blue on Blue, Tristan Bates Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

Who is the dependent: he whose legs have been physically blown off, or he who is mentally compelled to nick his legs with a knife over and over again? Blue on Blue, written by Chip Hardy (fa…

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Sunday, April 10, 2016

Review: The Caretaker, Old Vic by Holly O'Mahony

Matthew Warchus's new production of The Caretaker at the Old Vic theatre sees Harold Pinter's tragicomedy performed with an impressive set, humorous gusto and a cast including Timothy Spall …

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Thursday, April 7, 2016

Review: Cathedral, The Pleasance by Holly O'Mahony

Fye and Foul's Cathedral plunges its audience into near darkness, letting audio take the lead in their latest show which features fragments of tape recordings " the voices of two former love…

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Saturday, March 5, 2016

Review: Pedro and the Captain, Vault Festival by Holly O'Mahony

It's an uncomfortable truth that torture is taking place in silenced pockets of the world, as I write now and later as you read. Mario Benedetti's play Pedro and the Captain aims to tell the…

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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Review: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, Young Vic by Holly O'Mahony

A girl who is deemed inferior to the damaged and/or questionable men surrounding her is the subject of Eimear McBride's award-winning novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, now adapted for th…

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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Review: Crude Prospects, The Vault by Holly O'Mahony

"Can you maybe just tell me what is going on? I'm really spooked," says Brett (Norma Butikofer) in a statement which seems to capture the entire experience of watching Crude Prospects, th…

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Thursday, February 11, 2016

Review: Hamlet Peckham, CLF Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

Anthony Green's new production Hamlet Peckham splits Shakespeare's protagonist into three Hamlets, each played by a different actor. Hamlet one (Sharon Singh) is 'the problem', Hamlet two (M…

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Wednesday, February 3, 2016

Review: Romeo and Juliet, Orange Tree Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

Transporting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet from sixteenth century Verona to twenty-first century London, Shakespeare Up Close has modernised this great romantic tragedy to make it enjoyable…

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Saturday, January 30, 2016

Review: Gentle Tim, Vault Festival by Holly O'Mahony

There's something very enticing about watching theatre in the vaults at Waterloo: the dingy chambers filled with passionate pieces of up-and-coming theatre, the makeshift, bottom-numbing woo…

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Sunday, January 24, 2016

Review: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Trafalgar Studios by Holly O'Mahony

To today's liberal, British audience, the notion of being censored and jailed for writing a hedonistic and homoerotic text is an alien concept. However in 1891, when Oscar Wilde published hi…

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Review: Bears in Space, Soho Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

Told in a tone of light-hearted jest, through physical theatre and skilful puppetry, Bears in Space is exactly what it says on the tin: a play about bears in space. This comic production is …

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Thursday, December 10, 2015

Review: Hangmen, Wyndham's Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

After a sell-out stint at the Royal Court this autumn, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen continues to delight West End audiences at the Wyndham's Theatre with its illustrative set, punchy script and…

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Wednesday, November 11, 2015

Review: Time of Women, Young Vic by Holly O'Mahony

For the final chunk of the Staging a Revolution festival, Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) abandon their nomadic style, doing away with the practice of texting their audience a secret location at …

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Tuesday, November 10, 2015

Review: Trash Cuisine, Belarus Free Theatre (Secret Location) by Holly O'Mahony

Banned in their own country, Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) push their audience squeamishly towards the edge of their seats with Trash Cuisine, part of their Staging a Revolution festival taking…

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Thursday, October 29, 2015

Review: Husbands & Sons, National Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

Husbands & Sons simultaneously tells the stories from three of D.H. Lawrence's plays; chopped, re-ordered and enacted side-by-side on the Dorfman stage at the National Theatre. Lawrence'…

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Review: Crushed, King's Head Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

Crushed is set amidst the student protests of 2010, in which between 30-50,000 protesters marched against the Tory-Lib Dem government proposal to raise tuition fees from three to nine thousa…

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Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Review: Ovid's Metamorphoses, Earl Haig Hall by Holly O'Mahony

Blending Ovid's epic Roman poem into scenes of 1940s London, and peppering this concoction with slick moments of magical realism, Pants on Fire have created a theatrical masterpiece in Ovid'…

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Saturday, October 10, 2015

Review: Scarborough, Courtyard Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

A teacher-pupil love affair. The premise is not in itself original, however playwright Fiona Evans lays something new on the table that spices things up and shifts the focus to gender: do ou…

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Monday, October 5, 2015

Review: The Wars of the Roses, Rose Theatre by Holly O'Mahony

In what has been described by Robert O'Dowd, Chief Executive of the Rose Theatre, as their “biggest and most ambitious project to date”, Trevor Nunn's revival of The Wars of the …

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