Theatre and Mark Petrie

Following Wendy

Unconventional take on the Peter Pan story

27 Aug 2010

When a young girl Wendy disappears from a house party she has thrown in the absence of her parents, (through an upstairs window and accompanied by a boy with no shadow apparently!?) her friend Sebastian is arrested in connection. Following an argument…

The Diary of a Sentimental Killer

27 Aug 2010

The setting is simple: one man, one chair and one extraordinary story to be told. In the close nit environment of the small venue it is not difficult to become engrossed in the poetic retelling of life as an international hit man. Nearing the end of a…

Alcatraz

27 Aug 2010

On the surface of things, this play sets itself as an exploration of the comings and goings of a lonely hotel bedroom which is doused with minute traces of those who have spent the night; set across the city of Alcatraz, of course, nothing is as it…

Winner By Submission

Self destructive ethos

25 Aug 2010

A play based on the self destructive ethos which seems to be felt by many of the current generation of American youth. With little to no direction in life, including no signifying rituals as right of passage to adult hood, many are finding solace in…

His Name Is Tim

A melancholy understanding of first love, lust and desire

25 Aug 2010

The story of the affable young man Tim is a compelling one; we are taken through his early teen years of fantasising about school teachers and falling in love with girls at the supermarket, smartly incorporating this to explain how he now sits at his…

Allsopp and Henderson’s The Jinglists

Refreshingly outrageous jingle-based show

23 Aug 2010

Top quality radio jingles are hard to come by, when written well they will stubbornly refuse to leave your immediate head space, you may often find yourself uncontrollably singing along without even realising you knew the words. The two thirty-something…

Of Women and Horses I Have Known

A life in English eccentricity through comedy, theatre and music

23 Aug 2010

The true tale of the formidable Jean Hislop, a true eccentric from the English upper classes. The story charts her life living through the First World War to her days as a prize winning breeder on the horse racing circuit, causing controversy along the…

Mrs. Bang: A Series of Seductions in 55 minutes

An arrogant persona backed up by a powerful and diverse voice

23 Aug 2010

After theatrically conveniently being stood up by her band, Mrs Bang is forced to fly solo and rely on audience participation to make it through her debut cabaret/comedy performance at the Fringe. Playing the part of the slightly bitter performer whose…

An Evening with Dementia

Solo show raises big questions of our future with intelligence and understated humour

19 Aug 2010

With an ever increasing portion of the British population living longer lives, the unfortunate condition of dementia is an issue which more and more families, as well as society at large, are faced with. Complex, often life altering changes are required…

Find Love Make Love Die

Young cast show maturity but fail to avoid cliche

16 Aug 2010

The set up of this production is not altogether original one; 4 schools kids comprising of the popular girl, the outcast unpopular boy, a well off swatty kid and the rebellious girl with a chip on her shoulder find themselves trapped in each others…

Stuck in a rut

Utter nonsense

17 Sep 2009

For many of those students graduating in the centre of recession, the prospect of unemployment and mountains of debt to repay is a very real and current problem. This show is very loosely based on the dire situation much of the class of '09 are facing…

Catch

Finding love is not as easy as buying it on the internet

1 Sep 2009

A show surrounding the upsurge in the mail order bride industry is, if nothing else, an bizarrely original concept. The show incorporates comedy, dance, acting and,ahem, simulating oral sex with a suitcase, in an attempt to understand why people resort…

Tim: Against All Odds

Truly entertaining and adventurous show

1 Sep 2009

Having reached the conclusion that the Tim's of the world tend to be a little boring, unnaturally unlucky and generally have little to boast about; our hapless hero Tim is relentlessly determined to buck the trend and make a credible name for himself…

The Other Side

Hefty political issues and rational solutions

27 Aug 2009

Tackling some of the hefty political issues surrounding Israel and Palestine is no easy task when we consider the immense and often brutal circumstances of the conflict between the two nations. This is done very cleverly however by The Other Side, which…

6.0: How Heap and Pebble Took on the World and Won

When sport, movement, poetry and comedy collide

13 Aug 2009

Heap and Pebble are two would-be ice-skating champions, were it not for an inconvenient change in climate which has made ice dancing as they knew it obsolete. And so our innovative champions make the switch to dancing off ice, but retain the outfits…

Janis

Challenging the legend behind the music

13 Aug 2009

A one-woman show charting the rise and demise of Janis Joplin, one of the greatest blues singers and most personally troubled stars of the 1960s. The scene is a hotel room in Hollywood, where the singer is believed to have died from a heroin overdose.

The Devoured

A harrowing tale of the Holocaust from one family’s point of view

11 Aug 2009

From the Badac Theatre Company, whose work is usually centred around issues of human rights, comes this one-man show that aims to highlight the pain and suffering endured by a normal Jewish family during the Holocaust. From the moment their city is…

Hangover

The morning after the night before

11 Aug 2009

A play based on a hangover is something that many people could relate to. While at first appearing to follow some generic conventions relating to alcohol abuse (one-night stands and donor kebabs feature heavily), it becomes clear after a while that this…

Graceless

Five women’s stories collide

11 Aug 2009

Issues of female empowerment, identity and the ability to teeter in impossibly high heels are worked through in this powerful show doused in symbolism and metaphor. Seeking to understand the female position in society, the play looks at how women think…

Patti Plinko and Her Boy

Husky vocals from an endearing songstress

11 Aug 2009

What strikes hardest about Patti Plinko as she unravels herself from the snakelike coil in the centre of the stage is the profound huskiness and charm in her voice as she seductively cackles and howls her way through opening track ‘Sway’. Her band…

Your Number’s Up

A gritty tale of north London knife crime

11 Aug 2009

Malcolm collapses on a Camden street following a suspected drug overdose. Gradually nine other teenagers gather around him, and it becomes clear that there is more to this assembled crows than meets the eye. Did fate bring them together or is it just a…