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: 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…

  • 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: 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…

  • REVIEW: Mamma Mia! The Party ⭐⭐⭐⭐

    Ever wish that you could be on the set of Mamma Mia!? You might be surprised to hear this, but The O2 may be the closest you can get without taking a flight to Skopelos. Mamma Mia! The Party brings audience members, or “party-goers,” to the island where the hit ABBA jukebox movie musicals were…

  • INTERVIEW: Reca Oakley on SIX the Musical

    “I heard six powerful voices harmonising and instantly fell in love” Since it premiered at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2017, SIX the Musical has taken the world by storm, giving audiences a new perspective of Henry VIII’s infamous six wives – Catherine of Aragon, Anne Boleyn, Jane Seymour, Anna of Cleves, Katherine Howard and…

  • REVIEW: Fanboy ⭐⭐⭐

    Walking into the theatre for Fanboy feels like you are entering the room of a young child in the 1990s – there’s a cabinet with an old television set, several VHS tapes scattered around and a cabinet full of memorabilia from a range of different franchises. Written and performed by Joe Sellman-Leava, Fanboy begins with…

  • REVIEW: Gang Bang ⭐⭐⭐

    “The seagulls were circling, all lookin’ for the big chip” Written by Hughie Shepherd-Cross, Gang Bang tells the story of a Sicilian Mafia man, Don Lambrini (Fred Trenholme), who thinks he is on a boat going to America but actually ends up on an all-inclusive Thomas Cook cruise to Blackpool. It is here that “Big…