Archive for September, 2008
Piaf: Sex, Drugs and Little Sparrow
Pour moi, the Donmar Warehouse has done to London theatre what Louis XVI did to the French in 1789 – sparked a revolution. Messieurs Adelphi, Lyceum, and Dominion, bless them, have taken one look at London’s booming tourism industry and seen £££s. And from a business perspective, your Joseph’s and We Will Rock You’s, are [...]
Theatretrain at the Royal Albert Hall
Theatretrain’s Sunday performance at the Royal Albert Hall would have set the toes of any theatre or music enthusiast tapping. With approximately 1400 eager children, from as far a field as Isle of Wight, Nottingham and even Slovenia, the stage was filled with an abundance of colour, movement, energy and most of all fun!
Inamo Soho: Futuristic Dining
Entering Inamo, tucked away as it is on a side street in Soho, is like stepping into a futuristic dining portal – a vision of what eating out will be like in the year 3000, when (if you’ll humour my crude technological predictions) our children’s children’s children’s children will be using microchip mobile phones and [...]
Kids to Take Over Royal Albert Hall This Sunday
Directing 1400 performers at the Royal Albert Hall would be a daunting task for any director, but for Kevin Dowsett it’s all about the kids. This Sunday he showcases his most spectacular and ambitious show to date, I Don’t Feel Like Dancing! at one of London’s most treasured and prestigious venues. He’s excited, if a [...]
Who Was Spring Heeled Jack?
Fifty years before Jack the Ripper’s grisly slayings rocked Whitechapel, Victorian London was terrorised by another darkly adorned phantom of the night. Although this particular assailant was never believed to have killed anyone, his antics were still as frightfully ghoulish, and his identity, just like the Ripper, remains unknown to this day, despite countless theories [...]
Tamarai Restaurant: Black and Shining
Described as London’s best Pan Asian fusion restaurant, as well as a nightclub and cocktail bar, Tamarai is definitely a fusion of something; it’s just not sure what.
London Fashion Week Finale
When I rocked up to the Natural History Museum for the last day of London Fashion Week yesterday I knew I was fully indoctrinated into the fashion massive when I was caught bitching in the queue for Ashish.
Credit Crunch London - What a Week!
If Carlsberg did credit crunches, the markets would be based on units of alcohol consumed by Londoners, Lehman Brothers would be an action thriller starring Bruce Willis and Mel Gibson, and liquid (the city’s new buzz word) would be served chilled in a pint glass.
All About Her Mother: ‘Well’ at Trafalgar Studios
I’m not going to beat about the bush, because there simply isn’t a need to pad out this review with clever sentences and a waffling intro. Well is quite simply outstanding; a revelation of innovative, delicious theatre. I honestly don’t think that I have seen something so funny, and so touching for a very long [...]
Nicole Farhi’s Quintessentially British Tea Party
Taking place in the salubrious setting of the Paul Hamlyn Hall at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, this show was the most auspicious of my London Fashion Week outings thus far. I was off to see the coveted collection of Nicole Farhi. My eyes were peeled for celebs and my chest accessible for autographs.
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