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★★Beware The Boline
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★★Beware The Boline
Simon Ward reviews The Boline Inn at the Hope Theatre For anyone who might be unaware, a boline is a white-handled ritual knife used in Wicca. So, much like The Slaughtered Lamb pub in the 1981 com…
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December 11, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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★★★★Savagely Funny
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★★★★Savagely Funny
Simon Ward reviews Wilder! at the Etcetera Theatre This barely categorisable play written by its leading actors Thomas Billiouw and Dany Van Brabant deserves to be seen by a wider audience than can…
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December 7, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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★★★★★Humbug Free Zone
Simon Ward reviews The Christmas Thing at the Seven Dials Playhouse This is an utterly gleeful slice of Christmas slapstick fun, irresistibly written, directed and hosted by double act Tom Clarkson…
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December 4, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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★★★Who Wants To Live Forever?
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★★★Who Wants To Live Forever?
Simon Ward reviews Continuity at The Cockpit Theatre As a technology entrepreneur, we can take it that the insights that David Sear shares in this dystopian satirical black comedy are based on conc…
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November 20, 2025 at 11:46 AM
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★★★★Murder By The Stage Door
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★★★★Murder By The Stage Door
Simon Ward reviews Kill For The Part at the Canal Cafe Theatre Written and directed by Lucy Blunt, who also plays Olivia/Eleanor Deluse, this is a witty and beguiling romp which interleaves a class…
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November 13, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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★★Dead End Street
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★★Dead End Street
Simon Ward reviews Old Fat F**k Up at the Riverside Studios Olly Hawes has set up camp at the Riverside Studios – as well as this show, in a week or so, he will be alternating performances wi…
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November 12, 2025 at 2:04 PM
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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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November 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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★★★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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November 2, 2025 at 11:21 AM
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★★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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October 16, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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★★★★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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October 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
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★★★★★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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October 1, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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★★★★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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October 1, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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★★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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September 18, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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★★★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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September 16, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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★★★★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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September 12, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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★★★★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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September 11, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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★★★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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September 1, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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★★★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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August 31, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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★★★★★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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August 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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★★★★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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August 25, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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★★★★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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August 17, 2025 at 11:43 AM
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★★★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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August 15, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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★★★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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August 13, 2025 at 4:14 PM
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★★★★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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August 9, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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★★★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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August 7, 2025 at 11:17 AM