Tezza's Theatre Place

For reasons associated with the “Day Job”, I was only able to get to 69 shows this year for London Theatre 1 and the Offies .  However, it has still been a pretty good year for me theatrically, with 24 productions receiving 5 stars. This either means I am getting softer in my old age, or there are some pretty impressive shows out there.  Let’s delve into the top 10 of these and see what we think. No 10 - Operation Black Antler at the Southbank Centre This is the first of two immersive theatre shows in the top 10, and was a real surprise.  To quote the blurb I received - “In Operation Black Antler you are given a new identity as part of a small team; you are briefed and then sent into an undercover operation. You must meet, build empathy with and ultimately try to win the trust of someone whose political and moral views may be the polar opposite of our own. What will you do when the power is in your hands?” - and they weren’t kidding.  Like most immersive th...

Games For Lovers – Photo by Geraint Lewis Back in the mists of time, relationships and love were two separate things. A match between and a boy and a girl would be arranged and terms agreed between the respective families and that was that. If the couple were lucky, they might, over the course of their life together, fall in love with each other but, if not, as long as the relationship was stable, everything was good. Nowadays, things are much more complicated. Singles bars, speed dating, apps and the various rules around dating, make finding the ‘right one’ more like work than fun. That’s the theory at the heart of Ryan Craig’s play  Games for Lovers , receiving its world premiere at The Vaults Theatre. In contemporary London, four millennials are searching for love, each using their own method to find what they seek. Radiologist Martha (Evanna Lynch) spends much of her time either pining over co-worker Dr Robert, or her best friend Logan (Calum Callaghan). For his part, PE t...