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Southwark Playhouse

July 2024

  • The Children's Inquiry at Southwark Playhouse Elephant.

    The Children’s Inquiry review – exhilarating political musical about kids in care

    Soulful anthems with hard-knock lyrics cover 150 years of British care system history in a sophisticated show from Lung theatre company

June 2024

  • Alfie Friedman in rehearsal for Dorian: the Musical

    Fame, lust and drugs: Dorian Gray staged as a genderfluid rock musical

  • A Child of Science at Bristol Old Vic

    The week in theatre: A Child of Science; Wedding Band; No Love Songs – review

May 2024

  • A dancing vision … left, Georgie Fellows as Sappho, and Eleanor Kane as Adore, in Sappho.

    Sappho review – the poet’s passions, from ancient Lesbos to spangly clubland

    A mix of songs, dance, glitter and camp, this ancient-modern mashup is derailed by bland debates and a convoluted script

February 2024

  • Soaring … Sha Dessi, centre, as Mairead in Cable Street at Southwark Playhouse.

    Cable Street review – dazzling musical portrait of a community against fascism

  • Grace Mouat and Jacob Fowler in Before After at Southwark Playhouse.

    Before After review – artist’s life becomes a blank canvas in amnesiac musical

January 2024

  • Phillip John Jones and Shannon Smith in Blood on Your Hands at Southwark Playhouse.

    Blood on Your Hands review – abattoir drama never gets to the meat of the issue

  • Shawna Hamic in Unfortunate.

    Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch review – a chaotic camp delight

November 2023

  • Antony Bunsee as Jai in Phantasmagoria at Southwark Playhouse.

    Phantasmagoria review – scary story forgets the fear factor

  • Lauren Drew in the title role in Lizzie, Southwark Playhouse

    Lizzie review – ferocious rock opera revisits 1892 double murder case

July 2023

  • people sitting on the ground in a circle in the dark, a few lanterns glowing

    The week in theatre: Alter; Word-Play; Ride – review

    Catalan company Kamchàtka create an enticing piece of site-specific theatre in the unlikeliest of places; a dinner party turns nasty at the Royal Court; and around the world in bloomers

May 2023

  • Easy to like … Marta Vella (left) and Davinia Hamilton in Blanket Ban at Southwark Playhouse.

    Blanket Ban review – startling account of abortion laws in Malta

    Maltese duo use firsthand interviews – and warm humour – to highlight the lack of reproductive rights on the island

April 2023

  • Aoife Boyle as Customer (left), Chloe O'Reilly as Mary and Paul Carroll as Brendan in Strike!

    Strike! review – Dublin shop-workers stage an anti-apartheid protest

  • Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, at the Barbican with Amanda Hadingue in the role of Janina.

    The week in theatre: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead; Accidental Death of an Anarchist; Berlusconi – review

March 2023

  • Guys & Dolls at the Bridge.

    The week in theatre: five stars for Guys & Dolls, plus Marjorie Prime and The Tragedy of Macbeth – review

    The audience is swept along with the action in Nicholas Hytner’s thrillingly immersive new Guys and Dolls; Nancy Carroll and Anne Reid surf memory and identity; and Shakespeare’s witches multitask

February 2023

  • Emmet Byrne, Killian Coyle and Dan Skinner in The Walworth Farce at Southwark Playhouse Elephant, London.

    The Walworth Farce review – tyranny and fantasy at the Elephant and Castle

    There is comical swagger and escalating threat but Nicky Allpress’s revival of Enda Walsh’s play is strongest in its fragile moments

November 2022

  • Silvio Berlusconi attends a session of the upper house of parliament  in Rome last month.

    Fleabag producer brings Berlusconi musical to London stage

    ‘Fierce, feminist’ show from Francesca Moody is written by former Grange Hill actors Ricky Simmonds and Simon Vaughan and tells an ‘almost true’ story
  • Lucy Benjamin and Sam Baker-Jones in Here, by Clive Judd, at Southwark Playhouse.

    Here review – creepy and captivating kitchen-sink gothic

    Clive Judd’s Papatango-winning play about a West Midlands family haunted by the past is unorthodox and invigorating
  • Chris Porter (Kieffer) and Annice Boparai (Noor) in Noor by Azma Dar at Southwark Playhouse.

    Noor review – compelling story of wartime spy Noor Inayat Khan

    Exploring the agent’s life after she fell into Nazi hands, this beguilingly played story reflects on bravery and culpability

October 2022

  • Ruckus - Ali Wright-26

    Ruckus review – chilling countdown of coercive control

    Jenna Fincken’s one-woman play, inspired by real stories, gets inside the head of a young woman in a toxic relationship
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