Andrew Bewley is producer, playwright and director and a recent graduate of York University where he created notable work for the National Student Drama Festival and the Edinburgh Festival. Since graduating he has produced a season of cabaret at the Union Theatre, directed at the RADA studio and is currently a creative assistant at the Open Air Theatre, Regents Park.
By Andrew Bewley Monday, March 20 2017, 09:01
La Cage Aux Folles is a ground breaking piece of work. Written in 1983 the show is based around the relationship of female impersonator Albin and businessman Georges (played by John Partridge and Adrian Zmed) a gay couple who have been living together for twenty years, run the cabaret nightclub which gives the show its title and where Albin stars in drag as Zaza, and they've brought up George’s heterosexual son.
By Andrew Bewley Saturday, March 4 2017, 16:36
Killer is essential, dirty, horrible, necessary, original, spine-tinglingly delicate and brutal in equal measure, irrevocably stained upon your mind for hours after, and wholly inspiring.
This is going to be a five star review.
By Andrew Bewley Friday, January 20 2017, 09:36
Based on the best-selling novel by Khaled Hasseini, this Nottingham Playhouse production of The Kite Runner comes 13 years after the original book and 9 years after the film-adaptation — both of which were huge successes in their own right. Hasseini’s extraordinary, darkly beautiful, shocking story is one that should be enjoyed with as little pre-tense as possible so it’s important to speak sparingly about the plot.
By Andrew Bewley Sunday, December 4 2016, 12:00
Robin and Hazel are two retired nuclear scientists living on the edge of an exclusion zone set up in light of a cataclysmic event that occurred at the nuclear plant where they used to work — leaving the surrounding area with dangerous levels of radiation. Rose an old friend and colleague turns up having apparently not visited for years with frightening intentions: she is going back to the power plant to “clean up the mess” that she and her contemporaries created.
By Andrew Bewley Tuesday, November 22 2016, 12:16
Gripping for its entirety, lingering in your thoughts for days after and doing a fine job of lulling the audience into thinking it is something that a plot twist brilliantly reveals it is not. Great show.
There’s a cracking twist in the Royal Court’s SEWING GROUP by E.V. Crow and it's important to not go anywhere near revealing it, but what can be said is that Crow shines an uncomfortably bright light upon the impact the digital age has had upon the development of humans.
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