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★★★★★Anything But Grim Up North
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★★★★★Anything But Grim Up North
Simon Ward reviews Gwenda’s Garage:The Musical at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Following a successful run at the Tanya Moiseiwitsch Playhouse in Sheffield, this is the London premiere of a…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · 4d
★★★Grindr's Not A Dating App
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★★★Grindr’s Not A Dating App
Simon Ward reviews Daddy’s First Gay Date at the Seven Dials Playhouse Rather touchingly listed on the venue’s website as ‘Writer, Producer and Ben’ this show is clearly Sam…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · 20d
★★Ye Gods
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★★Ye Gods
Simon Ward reviews We’ll burn that bridge when we get to it: and I guess that’s now at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre Sometimes playwrights decide to lean into the idea of Fringe and give…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · 27d
★★★★Waiting for God
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★★★★Waiting for God
Simon Ward reviews God Don’t Live On A Council Estate at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Dean Stalham’s 2010 play, God Don’t Live On A Council Estate, directed here by Jonathan Linsl…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Oct 1
★★★★★Who Is Afraid of Kayleigh Grey?
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★★★★★Who Is Afraid of Kayleigh Grey?
Simon Ward reviews Monster at the Seven Dials Playhouse Abigail Hood’s play, Monster, is set over a twenty year period in Glasgow. It centres on the lives of two girls, teenagers when we firs…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Oct 1
★★★★Whose Game Is It Anyway?
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★★★★Whose Game Is It Anyway?
Simon Ward reviews The Pitch at Theatre503 Philip Catherwood’s new play, directed by Thea Mayeux, is not the first to investigate the thorny issue of land and its use on the island of Ireland…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Sep 18
★★Not With A Buzz But A Whimper
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★★Not With A Buzz But A Whimper
Simon Ward reviews BuzzFest at the Wanstead Curtain Theatre As chestnuts are falling from the trees and an autumnal chill is in the air, writer-director Marissa Landy’s ode to the summer musi…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Sep 16
★★★Blue Sunday
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★★★Blue Sunday
Simon Ward reviews Dagmarr’s Dimanche at the Crazy Coqs The louche 1930s glamour of the Crazy Coqs in the Brasserie Zédel is arguably the best place in London to experience a real cabaret experienc…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Sep 12
★★★★A Sepia-Tinged Dream
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★★★★A Sepia-Tinged Dream
Simon Ward reviews A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Since the turn of the millennium, Southwark Playhouse has been re-imagining the great works of the Shakespearea…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Sep 11
★★★★Where the laughter never stops
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★★★★Where the laughter never stops
Simon Ward reviews Lorna Rose Treen: 24 Hour Diner People at the Soho Theatre As the autumnal gloom envelops tube strike-ridden London, it is an absolute delight to escape into the garish world of …
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Sep 1
★★★Where Two Worlds Collide
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★★★Where Two Worlds Collide
Simon Ward reviews Tango in Silk at the Etcetera Theatre The first thing to note about Xi Liu’s Tango in Silk dance piece is that it is very short, perhaps ten minutes long. It is perhaps bes…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Aug 31
★★★Star-Crossed Comic Caper
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★★★Star-Crossed Comic Caper
Simon Ward reviews Romeo and Juliet – The Hate Story at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Directed by Annie Araba, this is the debut play of Brazilian writer-performer-producer Lucas Luan Lima. He…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Aug 28
★★★★★Time Gentlemen Please
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★★★★★Time Gentlemen Please
Simon Ward reviews TWO at the Greenwich Theatre For this revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1989 play, the Greenwich Theatre has been transformed into a pub of that era, The Clock and Compass, with …
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Aug 25
★★★★Zany Zombie Delirium
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★★★★Zany Zombie Delirium
Simon Ward reviews Improv The Dead at The Bridewell Theatre One of the joys of a Fringe festival is, of course, to move out of one’s comfort zone and try out something a bit different. I conf…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Aug 17
★★★★The Long Goodbye
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★★★★The Long Goodbye
Simon Ward reviews Fickle Eulogy at the Hope Theatre, 207 Upper Street, London N1 1RL Debuting at the Edinburgh Fringe last year, Nikol Kollars’s devastating solo show, directed by Javier Gal…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Aug 15
★★★Return To Sender
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★★★Return To Sender
Simon Ward reviews Don’t Shoot The Messenger at the Lion and Unicorn Theatre Co-writers Daniel Camou and Sam Plumbe have billed their new Camden Fringe show as ‘an office comedy of Shak…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Aug 13
★★★Too Many Years of Hurt
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★★★Too Many Years of Hurt
Simon Ward reviews Coming Home at The Hope Theatre As we enter the soundtrack swells with the now-familiar England football anthems – Three Lions, of course, along with Vindaloo and Sweet Car…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Aug 9
★★★★Soft Underbelly
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★★★★Soft Underbelly
Simon Ward reviews TURTLE: A Story About Christ, Cancer, Kinks, and Christmas at the Aces & Eights Theatre Although the bread-and-butter review circuit consists of rooms above pubs, there are a…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Aug 7
★★★Love in Shakespeare
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★★★Love in Shakespeare
Simon Ward reviews LIV:Sapphic Shakespeare at the Old Red Lion Theatre Showing as part of the Camden Fringe, which is running at various venues around London until 24th August, this is clearly a la…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Jul 30
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★★Lost on the Trail
Simon Ward reviews Bloody Bloody Kansas at the Hen and Chickens Theatre Photo credit – Central Standard Theatre Conceived, written and directed by Heidi Van, who also plays the roles of Ma Be…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Jul 29
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★★★Healing Powers
Simon Ward reviews All These Pretty Things at the Etcetera Theatre As we enter the small room above the Oxford Arms, Tracey Yarad is already in meditational pose, wrapped in a blanket and with Om S…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Jul 27
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★★★★Climb Every Mountain
Simon Ward reviews in defence of adventurous mothers at The Glitch As we descend into the underground world of the Glitch we find ourselves in a climbing centre – two large pillars with the t…
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Jul 26
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Jul 26
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★★★★Call of the Wild
Simon Ward reviews Brixton Calling at the Southwark Playhouse Borough Just over ten years ago, Simon Parkes wrote his memoir Live At The Brixton Academy describing the incredible true story of how …
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The Peg Review @thepegreview.bsky.social · Jul 18
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★★★★Friendship, Interrupted
Simon Ward reviews 1.17am, or Until The Words Run Out at Theatre503 Running as part of the Summer Shorts season currently playing at Theatre503, Zoe Hunter Gordon’s new play is an utterly com…
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