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Jermyn Street Theatre

June 2024

  • Adrian Lukis in Being Mr Wickham.

    Being Mr Wickham review – Jane Austen’s cad meanders into old age

    Adrian Lukis’s self-penned one-man show revisits the character he played in Pride and Prejudice on TV in 1995, but doesn’t discover much

May 2024

  • Nina Hoss and Adeel Akhtar facing each other on stage

    The week in theatre: The Cherry Orchard; Minority Report; Laughing Boy – review

  • Alfie Friedman, centre, as Connor Sparrowhawk in Laughing Boy.

    Laughing Boy review – Connor Sparrowhawk’s story told with love and fury

March 2024

  • Michael Sheen (centre) in Nye.

    The week in theatre: Nye; The Lonely Londoners; Hadestown – review

  • Camaraderie … Gamba Cole (Moses), Gilbert Kyem Jr (Big City) and Romario Simpson (Galahad) in The Lonely Londoners.

    The Lonely Londoners review – supreme staging of Sam Selvon’s Windrush story

January 2024

  • Sabrina Wu and Amber Sylvia Edwards in The Good John Proctor at Jermyn Street Theatre, photo by Jack Sain

    The Good John Proctor review – Salem gears up for witch hunting

    Set in the year before the events of The Crucible, the volatile children’s games that seed the later hysteria are brilliantly played but the drama is missing

October 2023

  • Ortonesque double act … Mark Huckett and Tom Morley in Owners at Jermyn Street theatre, London.

    Owners review – Caryl Churchill’s 1970s housing comedy is still bleakly relevant

    Often outrageously funny, Churchill’s play grimly reveals the costs and risks involved in private renting

September 2023

  • Esh Alladi as Pipli and Giles Cooper as Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations.

    The week in theatre: Great Expectations; Infamous; That Face – review

  • Caroline Quentin (left) and Rose Quentin in Infamous.

    Infamous review – Caroline and Rose Quentin share Emma Hamilton’s scandal

June 2023

  • Yours Unfaithfully at Jermyn Street theatre.

    Yours Unfaithfully review – three’s a crowd in 1930s polyamory play

    Laughs give way to an interrogation of monogamy and jealousy as a couple open up their marriage in Miles Malleson’s play

April 2023

  • Patricia Allison, Alex Mugnaioni and Samuel Collings in Jules and Jim.

    Jules and Jim review – an affecting love triangle but no match for Truffaut

    While there is compassion and curiosity in Timberlake Wertenbaker’s adaptation, this production lacks the whirlwind quality of Roché’s novel and the film

February 2023

  • Fizzing facts … Left to right: Giles Taylor as Turgenev, Bob Barrett as Flaubert, Norma Atallah as George Sand, Rosalind Lailey as Caroline Commanville and Peter Hannah as Zola in The Oyster Problem.

    The Oyster Problem review – the struggle to save Flaubert from himself

    In historian Orlando Figes’ rather too formal first play, the passionate romantic’s friends try to persuade him to be a little more worldly

January 2023

  • (from left) Anya Murphy, Suzanne Ahmet and Carlie Diamond in In The Net at Jermyn Street theatre.

    In the Net review – a tangled, scattergun study of global crises

    Misha Levkov’s dystopian debut examines migration, climate and community action but the drama is lost amid bland philosophical arguments

November 2022

  • Pass the arsenic … Alistair Cope, Jennifer Kirby and Dennis Herdman in The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary!

    The Massive Tragedy of Madame Bovary! review – Flaubert farce flops

    The cast’s hard work can’t save a confused script that struggles to mine comedy from a desperately sad story

October 2022

  • Slipping through their fingers … Something in the Air.

    Something in the Air review – Peter Gill proves how brightly remembered lives can shine

    Gill weaves an intricate, poignant picture of London’s queer history as two elderly men ruminate on the long-gone loves of their youth

September 2022

  • Face-off … Emily Barber (as Lydia), Bethan Cullinane and Leah Whitaker (as Edith) in Love All.

    Love All review – Dorothy L Sayers’ battle-of-the-sexes comedy lacks bite

    A bestselling romance writer leaves his wife for a glamorous new partner in this 1940 play whose gender politics feel toothless now

July 2022

  • Scarlett Brookes as Dasha carries a bottle with a 'flame' (red paper sticking out of the next) like a molotov cocktail

    The Anarchist review – an innocent sense of humour amid political unrest

    The first winner of the Woven Voices prize for migrant playwrights is an open-hearted play that layers a Belarusian woman’s past and present

June 2022

  • Jonathan Hyde as Socrates in Cancelling Socrates at the Jermyn Street theatre, London.

    Cancelling Socrates review – Howard Brenton interrogates democracy in a rich play of ideas

    Fine acting and lively dialogue save this philosophical play from feeling static as it applies Athenian ideals to modern dilemmas

May 2022

  • Childlike spirit of make-believe … Tigger Blaize (Chorus), Skye Hallam (Sasha), Taylor McClaine (Orlando), Stanton Wright (Chorus) and Rosalind Lailey (Chorus) in Orlando.

    Orlando review – make a date for Virginia Woolf’s puckish time traveller

    Smart, funny adaptation of Woolf’s exploration of multiple selves is pint-sized but faithful, and Taylor McClaine is excellent as the titular lead

March 2022

  • Alyssa Simon and Natasha Byrne in The Marriage of Alice B Toklas and Gertrude Stein.

    The Marriage of Alice B Toklas by Gertrude Stein review – upstaged by wedding guests

    This fantasy ceremony for the modernist couple is too preoccupied with the famous men cavorting around them
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