Phil Willmott
10 Jun
Reviews 
Review: THE WAR OF THE WORLDS IMMERSIVE EXPERIENCE at 56 Leadenhall Street
By Phil Willmott Monday, June 10 2019, 16:23
So called “immersive theatre” has become very popular in London over the past few years. Instead of taking your seat to watch events you’re usually taken, on foot, through a maze of rooms providing a series of experiences.
10 Jun
Reviews
Review: BRONX GOTHIC at the Young Vic
By Phil Willmott Monday, June 10 2019, 16:09
In this one hour twenty piece of performance art in the stuffy Maria studio of the Young Vic, New York’s Okwui Okpokwsili, alone on stage, is twerking as we take our seats.
03 Jun
Reviews
Review: THIS ISLAND’S MINE at The Kings Head Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, June 3 2019, 10:50
Remarkably this is the first ever revival of Philip Osment’s beautiful play, a seminal work from a now defunct theatre company called Gay Sweatshop.
These days there’s an openly gay agenda to huge swathes of UK Theatre (TV too) but back in the late 1980s the LGBT community was so marginalised that this Arts Council funded organisation was necessary to make work for and about us. (I'm very proud to say I also wrote a hit play for them some years later)
30 May
Reviews
Review: RUTHERFORD AND SON at the National Theatre
By Phil Willmott Thursday, May 30 2019, 20:53
I must confess to feeling seriously conflicted by the National Theatre under the current Artistic Directorship of Rufus Norris. I’m a political animal and it’s been a thrill to find artists from underrepresented groups fast tracked on to its high profile stages, even if they’re not quite ready. But there’s another part of me that just wants to see great actors of any background in beautifully presented great plays, as you could when I first came to London.
13 May
Reviews
Review: AMOUR at the Charing Cross Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, May 13 2019, 13:34
If, like me, you have a sweet tooth you’d do well to escape the Brexit and climate change blues and head to the Charing Cross Theatre where they’re serving a two hour theatrical confection as light and insubstantial as spun icing sugar.
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