Index to Reviews and Posts
- Playing Jane
- A Feast in Time of Plague: a Morality Tale
- Caliban’s Lament: A Critique
- Swan Upping
- Wilde Weekend
- A Florentine Tragedy
- La Sainte Courtisane
- Mrs Langtry as Hester Grazebrook
- An Unequal Match
- De Profundis
- An Ideal Husband
- The Star Child
- Salome
- No Go Arias
- Sunshine After Rain
- Clapping for the Kids!
- Caliban’s Lament
- Forward from Dunkirk: a Critique
- The Ballad of Teddington’s Dunkirk Little Ships: a Critique
- Introducing Rhymes_n_Roses
- My Three Wheeler: A Critique
- Forward from Dunkirk
- my three wheeler is blue with some yellow too
- March 14: A Critique
- March 14
- Programmed to Receive: Part Two
- Food, Toys and Mock-a-Chino: a critique
- Food, Toys and Mock-a-Chino: Three Poems
- Programmed to Receive: Part One
- Colour VE Day: A Critique
- Colour VE Day
- Grenade Genie
- The Smell of Purple
- Mozart and Salieri, a Whodunit
- Shakespeare’s Lockdown Birthday
- Car Crash
- Requiem
- March
- Waiting for Godot, the Silence
- What Happened to Poor Mum?
- In Praise of Aposiopesis
- In Times of Pestilence
- Young Writers’ Festival 2020
- Cygnus Olor 2020
- The Marriage of Figaro
- The Night Titanic Sank
- The Kite Runner
- Madama Butterfly
- Cause Célèbre
- First Love is the Revolution
- Wolves
- Hairspray JR
- Madam Butterfly
- Round and Round the Garden
- The Revlon Girl
- Dream (a younger critic’s viewpoint)
- Dream
- Sky in the Pie
- Blithe Spirit
- Luisa Miller
- Blood Brothers
- The Duchess of Malfi
- Darling It’s Not About You
- Rough for Theatre II and Endgame
- My Cousin Rachel
- The Maestro’s Last Words
- Pride and Prejudice
- Carmen
- Amadeus
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Ten Times Table
- Long Day’s Journey into Night
- Dial M for Murder
- A Christmas Carol
- Once
- Le Corsaire
- Blast from the Past
- Cygnus Olor Added
- Cygnus Olor 2019
- The Wizard of Oz
- Fault Lines
- Treasure Island
- Cinderella
- The Snow Queen
- Robin Hood
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Cinderella
- Nutcracker
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Ravens: Spassky vs. Fischer
- A Christmas Carol
- King Arthur in Space
- Robin Hood and Babes in the Wood
- Rinaldo
- Meniscus at The Playground
- Living Memory
- Rigoletto
- The Entertainer
- The Lady Vanishes
- She–Merchants, Buccaneers and Gentlewomen
- Frankenstein
- The Night Watch
- Pornography
- Keeping Classics Alive
- Days of Significance
- Orphée
- Romeo and Juliet
- New Writing from Twickenham
- What’s in a Name?
- Buddy, the Buddy Holly Story
- George Orwell’s 1984
- Dead Women’s Poetry Society
- The King and the Catholics
- Things I Know To Be True
- Sex Cells
- The Night Watch
- Rewriting the Climate
- The Mikado
- The Pirates of Penzance
- Agatha Crusty and the Village Hall Murders
- Hamlet
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- Integrity
- Toast
- The Mask of Orpheus
- Sweeney Todd
- Prism
- Solaris
- Elemental
- The Sound of Music
- These Shining Lives
- A Taste of Honey
- Orpheus in the Underworld
- Orpheus and Eurydice
- Ghost Bell
- Daisy Pulls It Off
- Private Lives
- Enron
- Bright Stars Shone for Us
- Table
- Giselle
- A Woman of No Importance
- Marvin’s Room
- The Father
- My Name Is Cathy
- The Long Road
- Sense & Sensibility
- Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg
- Clara: Sex, Love and Classical Music
- Clara
- Marie Lloyd Stole My Life / Kemp’s Jig
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Bed 13
- Much Ado About Nothing
- Lunatic 19’s
- Delivery
- Remembering a Poet
- Summertime Soirée
- Blood, Sweat and Vaginas
- About Time
- Dance@TheGrange
- Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies
- The Magic Flute
- Belshazzar
- Hansel and Gretel
- Di and Viv and Rose
- The Lonesome West
- A Visit from Miss Prothero and An Englishman Abroad
- Falstaff
- Springing the Mine, 250 Years
- Le Nozze di Figaro
- Cinderella In-the-Round
- Goodnight Mr Tom
- King Charles III
- Nell Gwynn
- Don Giovanni
- joinedupwriting
- Handbagged
- Easter Anthems
- Admissions
- Frankie and Johnny at the Clair de Lune
- Blue/Orange
- Our House
- Edmond de Bergerac
- Baal
- English Song
- Kindly Leave the Stage
- King Charles III
- Captain Corelli’s Mandolin
- BU21
- The Picture of Dorian Gray
- Kemp’s Jig
- Glengarry Glen Ross
- The Importance of Being Earnest
- Annual Photography Exhibition
- Footloose
- The Cat in the Hat
- Copacabana
- The House on Cold Hill
- Fashion: Fads and Trends
- Them/Us
- She Persisted
- The Elephant in the Room
- Ellie and Starlight
- Murder on Cue
- Waiting for Dawn
- The Goat
- Future Conditional
- Aladdin Jr
- Wise Children
- Iolanta
- A Nice Dilemma
- All My Sons
- The 39 Steps
- The Dresser
- The Winter’s Tale
- Father Figurine
- 10
- Margo: Half Woman, Half Beast
- The Wedding Singer
- The Lady Vanishes
- Young Writers’ Festival 2019
- Dead End
- Three Ayckbourn Plays
- Lilies on the Land
- Art
- Jazz, Dances and Classics
- My Mother Said I Never Should
- Aladdin
- Rosmersholm
- Punk Rock and Bassett
- Closer
- Trial by Laughter
- Ondule
- Birthright
- Resolution 2019 (Triple Bill 18)
- The Girl on the Train
- Fury
- Rutherford and Son
- Anthropocene
- The Last Five Years
- The Sleeping Beauty
- Swan Lake
- Lord of the Flies
- The Winter’s Tale
- That Face
- Resolution 2019 (Triple Bill 10)
- C’est La Vie…
- Alice in Wonderland
- Piaf Remembered
- Resolution 2019 (Triple Bill 3)
- Manon
- Lies Low
- Resolution 2019 (Triple Bill 1)
- Dance Season
- Goodnight Mr Tom
- Swan Lake
- The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
- Absent Friends
- Sleeping Beauty
- Hansel and Gretel by a younger reviewer
- Hansel and Gretel
- Peter Pan
- Dispatches 3
- Festival of One Act Plays
- Dick Whittington
- Sleeping Beauty
- La Bohème
- The Messiah
- Cendrillon
- /Sylvia\
- Three Bags Full
- The Trial
- Things I Know to Be True
- The Queen Symphony
- / Sylvia \
- War Requiem
- Echoes of the War
- Star of Strait Street
- The Case of the Frightened Lady
- Armistice Centenary of the Great War
- Don Carlos
- Something to Hide
- Dear Chocolate Soldier
- Rain Man
- For Services Rendered
- Ruddigore
- High Society
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- The Centenary Walk
- The Merchant of Venice
- Vulcan 7
- Pink Mist
- Keepers
- The Habit of Art
- Multitudes
- Porgy and Bess
- Soiree for MTV
- The Regina Monologues and Ladies in Waiting
- Cosi Fan Tutte
- The Real Inspector Hound and An Actor’s Nightmare
- Hogarth’s Progress
- Salome
- The Heiress
- A Bunch of Amateurs
- L’Elisir d’Amore
- Rabbit Hole
- Still Alice
- Larkin With Women
- Jeeves and Wooster in Perfect Nonsense
- Shackleton’s Carpenter
- Salad Days
- Diana Dors, Her Story
- Bernard Wigginton
- A Winter’s Tale
- The Swans Are Flying
- EdFringe Opens
- Palace of Varieties
- Red Peppers
- Blue Stockings
- Edinburgh Fringe
- Summer Evensong
- Black Mountain
- The Matchgirls
- Space Doctor
- Party
- Eventide
- The Collector
- Meet Me at The Nightingale and Understudies
- 84 Charing Cross Road
- Il Barbiere di Siviglia
- Royal Weddings Come in Pairs
- Agrippina
- Oh What a Lovely War
- A Class Act
- Daisy Pulls It Off
- Tenancy
- Out of Order
- Monogamy
- 9 to 5, The Musical
- Peer Gynt
- Lidos Alive Exhibition
- All Male Iolanthe
- Sherlock Holmes, the Final Curtain
- The Ruling Class
- 20th Century Boy
- The Winslow Boy
- Animal Appetites
- Accidental Death of an Anarchist
- Love from a Stranger
- Ravenscroft
- Stones in His Pockets
- Tess of the d’Urbervilles
- Kindertransport
- The Bakewell Bake Off
- Quartet
- Sylvia
- Madama Butterfly
- Much Ado about Nothing
- Young Writers’ Festival
- Voices of America
- The Witches
- Quartet
- September in the Rain
- Stainer’s Crucifixion
- George’s Marvellous Medicine
- George’s Marvellous Medicine
- Banana Crabtree Simon
- Rose at Ten
- Alice in Wonderland
- La Traviata
- Pressure
- Windrush Square
- New Plays Festival
- A Month of Sundays
- Dispatches
- Timothy
- The Zoo
- Great Expectations
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em
- Say Something Happened
- After Electra
- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
- Reviews Live
- Treading Water
- Curtains
- Special Offer for Mark Aspen Readers
- The Weir
- Taking Sides
- Rumours
- Strangers on a Train
- Iolanthe
- Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde
- Tiger
- The Mozart Effect
- The Jungle Book
- Richard Cartmale and Opera Foundry
- Liberty Hall
- Say Something Happened
- Double Infemnity
- A View from the Bridge
- Sleepers in the Field
- Strawberry Starburst
- Fleur Barron and Julius Drake I
- La Sylphide
- Sleeping Beauty
- The Nutcracker
- Seven Letters
- Suff’ring
- BluesClub
- Marie
- Mark Aspen’s New Year Quiz
- Alice in Winterland (by our younger reviewers)
- Annie Jr
- Cinderella
- Jack and the Beanstalk
- Alice in Winterland
- Aladdin
- The Wind in the Willows
- Melissa’s Meeting with the Personalities of Pantomime
- Carmen
- Panto for the Perplexed
- Poetry at the Adelaide with David Russomano
- Geno Washington and the Yo-Yos
- The Matchgirls
- Marnie
- Arabian Nights
- Still Life and Red Peppers
- Hercules
- Big the Musical
- Picnic at Hanging Rock
- Death Trap
- Rules for Living
- As You Like It
- The Dramatic Exploits of Edmund Kean
- For Love or Money
- Made in Dagenham
- Rodelinda
- Lipstick and Scones
- The W.I. Blues
- Duet for One
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Around the World in Eighty Days
- How the Other Half Loves
- VOCES8: The Howard Greenwood Concert
- Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor® Dreamcoat
- Dial M for Murder
- The Real Thing
- Silken Spectacle of a Tragic Triangle: Aida
- Unnerving Prescience: The Best Man
- Unsettling Ambiguity: Turn of the Screw
- The Doric String Quartet
- Barren Barriers between Cultures: The Life to Come
- Keep Up the Offensive, Chaps! Wipers’ Times
- Kindertransport
- A Turn Around Town: Under Milk Wood
- New Notes: Mansfield Park
- Tasting the Edge of Darkness: Wait Until Dark
- Late Summer Verses: Poetry at the Adelaide
- Steaming On: The Railway Children
- The Juice Runs in Shakespeare’s Saucy Romp: The Merry Wives of Windsor
- Poetry Portraits, Wide and Varied: Poetry at the Adelaide
- Struggles, Political and Poetical: Datong, The Chinese Utopia
- Fly Me to the Moon: Millie’s Dream
- Water Flows, Petals Scatter, Memories Revive
- Soaring Beauty Only Dreamt About: German Opera
- Power, Passion and Precision: German Opera
- ‘And in ‘and, oo la la! : French Twist
- Not Fade Away: The Buddy Holly Story
- Virginity Lost, Nostalgia Gained: Albert Herring
- Absorbing, Reflective, Immaculate: Breadcrumbs
- Improvisation of Genius: Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria
- Butcher and Friends Hit Eel Pie for Six: The Boom Band
- Sincerity with Sensuality and Sinew: Carmen
- Dangerous Liaisons in Trying Times: The English Heart
- Striking in Simplicity as in Beauty: Jane Eyre
- Theatrical Marmite? Attempts on Her Life
- Discomforting Grasp of Holocaust Horrors: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
- Verse, Varied and Vigorous: Poetry at the Adelaide
- Roll Up! Roll Up! The Ultimate Feel-Good Barnum
- Mirrors of Adultery: This Was a Man
- Turbo-Charged Falsetto Fun! The Mikado
- Epitome of Charm: Dashing Dalby and his Bountiful Daughter
- Footloose and Fancy Free: Footloose the Musical
- A Modern English Myth with Heart: Jerusalem
- Eco-Warriors Round the AGA: Fracked!
- Unsettling, Mesmerising, Lyrical: The Pillowman
- Polished Revival: The Seagull
- Frustrated Ambitions: The Seagull
- Life in a Petri Dish: Abigail’s Party
- Sizzling with Creativity: Young Writer’s Festival 2016-17
- Chicago to Cabbage Patch: Joe Jammer
- Psychology Squandered: She Wears Scented Rose
- Hard-Edged Humanity: Junkyard
- Hidden Psychological Depths: Black Chiffon
- Living Bones! The Juniper Tree
- Something Unnatural? Black Chiffon
- Russian Around! Peter and the Wolf
- Yo Ho Ho-ing All the Way Home: Peter Pan Jr
- Fast and Fabled: The Government Inspector
- Friendship and Cooperation in Europe: Belgian Village on the Thames
- Drug Abuse? Prescription for Murder
- Grimmest Beauty: The Juniper Tree
- Peccadilloes and Pain: Talking Heads
- Comedy and Crime: Spring Revue
- Finding the Wry Humour and Heart of the Everyday: Talking Heads
- Shakespeare, Who? Collaborating on The History of Cardenio
- Fatal Attraction of the Garden Gnome: Neighbourhood Watch
- Deeply Complex and Layered: My Brilliant Friend
- Chicago Calling Twickenham: Cyril Davies Tribute Night
- Angel Cakes . . . or Cake Eating Angels? Choral Evensong
- A Step Back from Twickenham: Motown The Musical
- Exit, Pursued by a Flare. The Winter’s Tale
- Shakesmarleton Lives! UK Premiere of Shakespeare Comes to Twickenham
- They’re Behind You! Pantomime Season, 2016-17
- Haunting Humanity: The Snow Dragons
- His Old Man’s Old Man Was a Dustman: Peter Donegan
- Climax of Triumph: Silver Lining
- Ethereal Bleakness and Pristine Playfulness: The Piatti Quartet
- Soft Serenity and Powerful Passion: French Opera
- Fantasy, Friendships, and Feminism. Girls Like That
- A Rose by Any Other Name, Juliet Goes to the Theatre.
- Frippery, Frolics and Fantasy: Pinocchio, the Pantomime
- Songs That Came Out of the Cold: Ensemble 96
- Wowed by Sugar and Spice: The Nutcracker
- An Innocent Abroad this Christmas: Elf The Musical
- A Century On: Stille Nacht? Oh What a Lovely War.
- A Broad Canvas. Hinterland
- Belmont Comes to Richmond. The Merchant of Venice
- Reality in a Dangerous World.
- A New Leaf Turns the High Tempo: Leaf Hound
- Sliding Scales at Kew: Glorious!
- Out of the Dragon’s Den: The Magic Flute
- Yellow Roses Grow On Dark Water at Whitton Allotments. The Script Room
- Motherhood and Bitter Apple Pie: The Distance
- A Pound of Flesh in This Sandwich: Merchant of Venice
- Aching tragedy as U.S. ship come in. Madama Butterfly
- Soul-Searching, not Sinking. Titanic the Musical
- Eroticism and Expressionism. Lulu.
- Katherine wills: Lucy Worsley talks about Eliza Rose.
- Firework Night: The A to Z of Musicals
- Sappho leaves Ambridge: The Killing of Sister George
- Poignant Powerful Theatre: All My Sons, Rose Theatre, Kingston.
- Infectious and Delirious: The Mikado
- Deliciously Inappropriate: The Producers, BROS Theatre Company
- Lighten our Darkness or Vice -Versa
- Sparks, style, sincerity. The Importance of Being Ernest
- The world should learn. Conspiracy: the Wannsee Conference 1942.
- Streams of complexity: The River
- The big “if”: Family Circles
- Naked raw nerves: The God of Carnage
- Achill and Arran distilled: Riders to the Sea
- Generation gap becomes a canyon: The Graduate
- A Lady of Letters plus Follow Me: an extraordinary and unanticipated congruence.
- The Show
- The Seven Year Twitch: A Mini-Review
- Dead Funny
- Sauce for the Goose by Georges Feydeau Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond until 2nd February
- Amores
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