Ought To Be Clowns

1 month ago | oughttobeclowns.com | Ian Foster

Roy Grace returns to Richmond Theatre as part of a major UK tour of Picture You Dead“Whatever you do, don’t scrub at it”There’s an interesting tension that comes with adapting a massive successful franchise to a new medium.

1 month ago | oughttobeclowns.com | Ian Foster

There’s a lot to love in Sam Normington’s Mixed Sex, at the Lion & Unicorn Theatre, even if you weren’t a fan of Eternal back in the day“Your pashmina’s on fire”I know a little about growing up gay as a kid in the UK in the mid-1990s but there’s an eerie amount of chiming going on with Sam Normington’s Mixed Sex.

1 month ago | oughttobeclowns.com | Ian Foster

Somewhere between party and play, Plied and Prejudice is an often entertaining experience at The Vaults, depending on where you sit“Sorry I’m wet”Billed as equal parts performance and party, Plied and Prejudice is in truth part comic adaptation, part cocktail-selling operation. Occupying part of The Vaults complex underneath Waterloo Station, one of its longest, thinnest rooms has been converted into a catwalk-like stage that must be 50 metres long, with seating either side in traverse.

1 month ago | oughttobeclowns.com | Ian Foster

Jay Miller’s re-interpretation of The Glass Menagerie is near-perfection at the Yard Theatre“How beautiful it is, and how easily it can be broken”We’re rarely lacking for productions of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie but Jay Miller’s interpretation of this gorgeous play – the last to be performed in the Yard Theatre in its current state, before a major rebuild – is tenderly felt and quite the re-envisioning.

1 month ago | oughttobeclowns.com | Ian Foster

13th Night Theatre Company Middleton’s Women Beware Women at the Golden Goose Theatre“O the deadly snares that women set for women…”It’s a bold move for 13th Night Theatre Company to tackle Thomas Middleton’s Jacobean tragedy Women Beware Women, its labyrinthine complexities and chaotic plotting meaning it is rarely seen on major stages, never mind the fringe theatres of Camberwell. And directed by Mya Grace Kelln, it certainly has its moments, performed here by a fresh-faced company of 11.