Chris Omaweng

London

Lead reviewer and FB group admin @londontheatre1. Office manager @AmChurchLondon rehearsal rooms. Xs personal. Live, laugh, love, but most importantly, eat.

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The Ministry of Lesbian Affairs - Kiln Theatre | Review

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

Such is the amount of tension and drama in “the only lesbian choir in the country” that, in some ways, it’s unsurprising there aren’t more. A schoolboy Google search revealed there are, indeed, very few choirs whose only prerequisite is being a lesbian, though there are many that focus on the LGBT+ community, with names like Spectrum Choir, Diversity Choir and Rainbow Chorus.
Frozen: The Hit Broadway Musical - Disney+ | Review

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

This is a great addition to Disney+. In London’s West End, where this pro-shot recording was filmed (despite its listing as ‘The Hit Broadway Musical’, as if Broadway never had any other hit musicals before and never will again), it was quite a long evening for younger members of the audience, as it was essentially a ninety-minute movie adapted into a musical stretching to two-and-a-quarter hours (there was an interval).
Dragging Your Heels - Studio at New Wimbledon Theatre | Review

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

Tammy Scowls (Dolly Diamond) steals the show in a narrative ostensibly about Ben (Terry Geo) and his journey to overcome the obstacles holding him back from doing what he really wants to do with his life and asserting his personal identity and sexual orientation in a way that both suits him and isn’t ‘in your face’.
A Streetcar Named Desire - National Theatre Live | Review

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

Seeing this screening on a warm summer’s evening (well, warm for England) went rather well with seeing a Tennessee Williams play. If you’ve ever seen one before, the characters aren’t exactly dressed in thermals and fleeces, drinking tea and hot chocolate to try to keep warm. National Theatre Live cinema screenings have much appeal – the prices are considerably less than they would be to see shows of a similar calibre at the theatre, and you also benefit from cinema seating.
Kieran Hodgson: Voice of America - Soho Theatre | Review

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

It is relatively easy, I would imagine, to shout and swear about everything wrong with the world for an hour – at the risk of blowing my own trumpet, I could probably do it myself. I don’t, ordinarily, like speaking for anyone else – it’s pompous, presumptuous and pathetic – but I suspect you could too.
Lovestuck: A New Comedy Musical - Stratford East | Review

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

Towards the end of Act One, there’s a musical number called “Shit!”. The very last number in the song list, at the end of Act Two, is called “Everybody’s Got Their Shit”. Not very much happens in between, aside from discussion about solid waste. In hindsight, I should have kept a tally of the number of times the s-word was used in the show.
Giffords Circus: Laguna Bay - Chiswick House & Gardens | Review

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

A fellow circusgoer observed, “It’s not exactly Cirque du Soleil!” Well, it isn’t, I agreed, before countering that performers – plural – have died whilst starring in Cirque du Soleil shows. Giffords Circus manages to combine two key aspects of a circus production, the performances being Very Fun and also Very Safe.
Bad Clowns: Long Live The King - New Wimbledon Studio | Review

1 week ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

Alas, this show has nothing to do with Elvis Presley. In some kingdoms, there is a clear line of succession to the throne – but in a world where anything is possible, where’s the fun in that? The show starts before the show starts, with the audience warmly greeted and the cast engaging in banter both between themselves and with those of us who had turned up early.
Steel - Park Theatre | Review

2 weeks ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

Suppose you were to come into money – a life-changing sum. What would you do? James (Jordan Tweddle) would move away from Workington, a coastal town in Cumbria. The main industries in the area used to be coal and steel, before the 1980s came along and cheaper production elsewhere in the world combined with Government policy and effectively turned places like Workington into areas of high unemployment. A generation later, the situation has, as this production would have it, only alleviated somewhat.
Green - Old Red Lion Theatre | Review

2 weeks ago | londontheatre1.com | Chris Omaweng

In some respects, this is a show that covers some well-trodden ground. Jude (Matthew Heywood) is a singer-songwriter who is on the cusp of success. It wasn’t made entirely clear what was meant by ‘success’, although the exposure he was about to get from being the support act for Ben, an unseen character, something of an international phenomenon in the English-speaking chart music world, is significant.