Little Lark of London

Exploring the cultural world of London, one blog post at a time!

  • REVIEW: Second Best ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    “Funny how love makes itself known” Walking into Riverside Studios for Second Best, audience members are greeted by an all-white stage with a range of props and set pieces scattered across the stage – a small television, a hospital bed built into the wall, two shelves of crisps, empty frames, and even Asa Butterfield himself…

  • REVIEW – Taskmaster: The Experience ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    “He’s sitting under a tree, thinking of tasks and shit.” – Jamali Maddix, Taskmaster Season 11, Episode 6: “Absolute Casserole” Have you ever wanted to be the star of your favourite game show? Well, if Taskmaster is your favourite gameshow, then now is your chance. Taskmaster: The Live Experience allows audience members to participate in…

  • REVIEW: Cellino v. Barnes ⭐⭐⭐

    “All great advertising flows from the jingle” Written by Mike B. Breen and David Rafailedes and directed by Wesley Taylor and Alex Wyse, Cellino v. Barnes tells the story of Ross Cellino and Steve Barnes, two personal injury attorneys who formed a law firm in 1998, appropriately named Cellino & Barnes, which rose to fame…

  • REVIEW: Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    “Ale!” “And well met!” Walking into Dungeons & Dragons: The Twenty-Sided Tavern feels like walking into a Renaissance Faire (and that’s not just because someone from my local Faire is in the cast!), and I have never felt more at home. As someone who is only familiar with the game of D&D because of a…

  • INTERVIEW: Harry Bradley on The Mousetrap

    “When you’re part of something that’s bigger than yourself, it feels like an honour to be involved with that.” Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap has been on the West End for over seven decades, earning the title of “the world’s longest running play.” For years, audiences have flocked to Monkswell Manor to see if they can…

  • REVIEW: The Devil Wears Prada, Dominion Theatre ⭐⭐⭐

    “This is the House of Miranda” As someone who had not seen the film before watching the musical, I went in curious about The Devil Wears Prada. With music by Elton John, the show is an adaptation of the 2006 movie that follows aspiring journalist Andy Sachs (Anne Hathaway in the film) as she becomes…

  • INTERVIEW: Charlie Russell on Birdsong

    “It’s an incredible opportunity to play such a complicated, contradictory character who makes some extremely bold and brave choices amidst her oppression” Birdsong, Rachel Wagstaff’s stage version of the Sebastian Faulks novel of the same name, tells the story of Stephen Wraysford, a lieutenant in the British Army in World War I, and the relationship…

  • REVIEW – Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    It’s difficult to remain positive while the world seems to be breaking down around you, but that’s exactly what Harriet Kemsley: Everything Always Works Out For Me is about. Guided by the wise words of  “Guru Dave,” Kemsley tells the audience stories about what has happened in the past year of her life and how…

  • REVIEW: Dr. Stranglove ⭐⭐⭐

    “Peace is our profession” Directed by Sean Foley, Dr Strangelove is the stage adaptation by Armando Iannucci and Foley of the iconic Kubrick movie from 1964 in which an American general in the Cold War gives the command to launch nuclear weapons into the Soviet Union, leading to the President of the United States gathering…

  • REVIEW: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    “Time and tide behaved a little differently” The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, an adaptation of the short story by F. Scott Fitzgerald, tells the story of a man who is born at the age of seventy and ages backwards, focusing on the difficulties he faces being ostracised from society by his horrified parents. In…