The Old Red Lion is currently housing Ffion Jones’debut play, Ugly Lovely, in which she also plays the lead role Shell, a 26-year-old Swansea girl with a 3 year old son living with his grandmother, and an absent promiscuous boyfriend. Presented by theatre company Velvet Trumpet, the play’s message is loud and clear, as it shines spotlight on the bleak futures of working class Swansea girls.
Theatre News and Reviews
06 Jul
Reviews 
Review: UGLY LOVELY at Old Red Lion
By Harriet Grenville Wednesday, July 6 2016, 07:15
05 Jul
Reviews
Review: Funny Girl at the Savoy Theatre
By Harriet Grenville Tuesday, July 5 2016, 12:51
With Sheridan Smith extending her time off from Funny Girl, it really is the year of the understudies, and Natasha J Barnes is no exception to the recent run of impressive cover performances.
Smith was definitely the star attraction for Funny Girl with the original run at the Menier Chocolate Factory selling out in just 24 hours.
05 Jul
Reviews 
Review: STRANGERS IN BETWEEN at The King's Head Theatre
By Nastazja Domaradzka Tuesday, July 5 2016, 10:08
The Australian playwright Tommy Murphy's STRANGERS IN BETWEEN had its British premiere this summer at The King's Head Theatre. Directed by Adam Spreadbury-Maher, the artistic director of the venue. STRANGERS IN BETWEEN is a beautifully written coming of age play which examines the issues of sexuality in both a funny and moving way.
04 Jul
Reviews 
Review: SAVAGE Above the Arts Theatre
By Phil Willmott Monday, July 4 2016, 13:23
I first encountered the work of Claudio Macor about twenty years ago when I directed his play VENETIAN HEAT. In this he told a story of gay love and oppression set in the Italian countryside of his grandparents, during the second world war.
Since then he has created a series of stage works which explore forgotten corners of gay history and culture. His lasts work SAVAGE is no exception and it shines a light on a horrific “cure” for homosexuality, pioneered in Denmark by Nazi doctor Carl Peter Vaernet which involved surgically inserting glands into the genitals of gay prisoners.
30 Jun
Reviews 
Review: THE SHADOW KING at the Barbican
By Andrew Bewley Thursday, June 30 2016, 12:26
Transposing the story of King Lear to Australia, Shadow King presents a Lear as the leader of an indigenous community based in the Northern Territory of Australia. Tommy E Lewis’s King Lear is a cheeky child-like, Del Boy figure who chooses to divide his land among his three daughters, with the amount that they are each to receive based upon how well they answer Lear’s question: “How much do you love me?”. Two out of three (Goneril and Regan) give splendidly sycophantic and deceitful answers whilst Cordelia - shocked by her father’s actions - refuses to participate. Subsequently, Lear banishes Cordelia for her lack of love setting in motion a series of events that lead to family feuding, territorial jealousy and we’re off on our tragic way.
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