Drum roll please…(Cue a literal drum rolling across the stage.) The Lyric pantomime is one of traditions with the return of many well-loved jokes and skits. Costumes and sets are all made at the Lyric itself by Good Teeth, with set pieces being reused year on year. This year Cinderella gets the Hammersmith makeover, with … More CINDERELLA – REVIEW – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
God of Carnage was originally a French play titled, Le Dieu du Carnage by Yasmina Reza, the script was translated in 2008 by Christopher Hampton. Centred around two couples, Veronica and Michael (Freema Agyeman and Martin Hutson) and Annette and Alan (Dinita Gohil and Ariyon Bakare), who meet to discuss a playground incident between their … More GOD OF CARNAGE – REVIEW – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
Do you remember what it was like to be in school? Jocelyn Bioh’s School Girls; Or, The African Mean Girls Play, making its UK debut at the Lyric Hammersmith, will remind you. Queen bee Paulina is detested by the rest of the girls in her friendship group when she is absent, yet somehow her self-assurance … More SCHOOL GIRLS; OR, THE AFRICAN MEAN GIRLS PLAY – REVIEW – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
It is always exciting to see new writing by young voices, and Wasted is no exception. Winner of the Bill Cashmore award, Wasted originally started out as a 10 minute scratch and has developed into a professional hour long production. Writer Chanel Fernandes and co-creative Kane Feagan’s play accomplishes just what the award seeks to. … More WASTED – REVIEW – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
Tom Basden has updated this 20th Century political classic for 2023 and the result is nothing short of brilliant. Centred around Daniel Rigby’s excessively playful ‘Maniac’, the play dazzles from the off with an overload of quips, puns and gags whilst weaving a tale of police corruption around the investigation of a previous criminal’s suspected … More ACCIDENTAL DEATH OF AN ANARCHIST – REVIEW – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
This modern take on one of Shakespeare’s most famous plays hits you in the senses from the moment you enter the theatre. The space is immediately loud and brash: club music at club volume, making it actually quite hard to think as you first walk in. A simple bar is set up with pool table … More REVIEW – OTHELLO – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
Jill the fairy is on her final exam: three wishes to make a positive impact on the world – can she do it? The evil Fleshcreep is taxing the town into poverty and using the giant to strike fear in the townspeople. Can Jack, Simon, and Dame Trott save the day? Well, it is panto, … More REVIEW – JACK AND THE BEANSTALK – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
It’s baffling how a play can premiere many years ago, and yet a whole pandemic later, the play feels more timely than ever before. That’s exactly how Iphigenia in Splott feels. Gary Owen’s critically acclaimed play premiered in Cardiff at the Sherman Theatre in 2015. Owen wrote the monologue in response to David Cameron’s austerity … More REVIEW – IPHIGENIA IN SPLOTT – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
Patrick Marber’s Closer headed to Lyric Hammersmith, for its 25th-anniversary revival. The Olivier award-winning play explores love, sex, and desire and has been given a radical revival by the director, Clare Lizzimore. Set in 1990s London, Closer follows 4 strangers who meet, fall in love, and become embroiled in a complicated affair. Although the focal … More REVIEW – CLOSER – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
Although Nathaniel Curtis gave a good performance as Britannicus, the titular character was overshadowed by the fantastic portrayal of William Robinson as Nero. Robinson played the Emperor Nero as boy with a childlike innocence in one moment and as a brutal and tyrannical dictator in the next. Watching his mother Agrippina (Sirine Saba) and his … More REVIEW – BRITANNICUS – LYRIC HAMMERSMITH
