James Price

Like an entirely different play. @rosie sheehy is so watchable. Brilliant with an entirely different quicker pace to it. @Tim Crouch is genuinely a magician

Funny in places! Mixed level throughout and wouldn't rush back but well constructed and I can see why people would go multiple times.

A really interesting concept with a mix of contemporary America, fear of the unknown, radicalised, king lear and loads more plus just great to see a new piece of writing off-broadway. We saw first preview so that may have been the issue with the pacing. To me it just didn't seem…More

Didn't know what to expect from this show but so glad we went to see it. Camp, theatrical and a real love letter to Madge's father, who clearly played a huge role in helping Rob become who he is today. The recorded footage and supporting characters from Rob's family are as much…More

Great show! Went to see the WIP at the pleasance before their edinbugh run and it's roughly the same still - just a lot more rounded, bigger budget, funnier and with an ending! Some incredible moments in there. Slimothy has got to be one of the favourites. You can see these three…More

Very powerful and moving. Second half much better than the first. Not the best piece of narrative storytelling I've ever seen and feels like it gets through on emotion and ardent singing more than a well rounded and satisfying story. Some incredible singers on stage though with…More

So good. Particularly the dinner scene. @David Fynn as beetjuice and @Hannah Nordberg as lydia were both brilliant bringing so much energy and incredible vocals to their roles, respectively. The only thing that slightly lets it down is pacing and a couple of slightly forgettable…More

Absolutely brutal. As difficult a watch as I've had in the theatre but in a sort-of-good way. The blood, needles, nudity, senseless violence were appalling to see and very visceral and real but something about their movement and watching it all happening in the just over 90…More

Incredible feat of theatre. The acting, set design, costume, script, direction - all brilliant. It's a brutal watch but surprisingly funny in many places for a completely tense and captivating tragedy. Shame see the theatre with so many empty seats on a show that had a full…More

I loved the acting and the staging. We sat on stage and the revolve was a brilliant concept, bringing so much life to what can be quite a wordy play. I loved its ideas about head and heart, science and poetry, and whether either is more important or whether life is just life…More

A really good premise and a well-constructed play, but this production just wasn't for me. I found both male performances broad and unconvincing, with frantic energy and volume often standing in for something more believable. It also felt stiflingly middle class, right down to an…More

The music is still great and the performances were very good, but this time it felt too long and didn't have quite the energy I remembered from my first visit. There are brilliant sequences, particularly songs like Wait for It, where the music and staging come together…More

A playful take on Sense and Sensibility, following two feuding actors who are forced to perform the whole story themselves after the rest of their cast disappears. I didn't know the story, so I think I missed some of the in-jokes. Lots of character-switching, chaos and comedy…More

The characterisations were brilliant. Some of the songs were a bit strange, but others were genuinely moving. The story is silly, playful and just great fun. The cast were brand new and you could sense a little nervousness, but they were all excellent. Such a good premise and a…More

A brilliant premise that somehow became a dull evening. The idea of weaving magic into the set changes and transitions was clever and occasionally came close to working, but overall the production felt clunky and underwritten. Too many moments seemed to get lost rather than…More

Such a clever idea for a children's show: every child brings a toy with them and those toys are incorporated into the performance. Some of the ideas were brilliant, and the performances and live music were particularly good. Despite a quite complex story, the kids loved it and…More

I'd forgotten quite a lot since seeing it the first time, so it was fun rediscovering it. The singing and music were brilliant, although the chandelier wasn't quite as impressive as I remembered from seeing it from the stalls the first time around. Some of the staging now feels a…More

The puppetry was really impressive, especially the three different scales used for the BFG and the humans, and some of the performances were excellent. There were very funny moments with the two army generals, and the Queen was great. The story itself felt too disjointed, though…More

Absolutely brilliant. Every performance felt completely on point, and the whole thing worked as a true ensemble piece. The recording-studio setting made it wonderfully claustrophobic, while the story captured the sex, drugs and rock ’n’ roll atmosphere of a band starting to…More

Nicola Walker was very good, but I found the script quite disjointed and never really understood what the whole thing was trying to say. There were interesting moments and performances, but it didn’t quite come together for me and didn’t leave much of an impression afterwards.

The initial reveal was shocking and hilarious in equal measure and set the tone perfectly. From there, the whole thing just kept escalating into increasingly bizarre, disgusting and ridiculous territory. Garry Starr is an incredible physical performer, and the premise gives him…More

Good rather than great. The premise was strong and it delivered much of what you'd expect from Inside No. 9: strange characters, dark ideas and some very funny moments. Our guest appearance from Jimmy Tarbuck rather derailed things, though. Some of the audience clearly loved…More

Absolute chaos. Zach Zucker was brilliant and, if anything, I came away wishing I’d booked one of his solo shows so I could have had more of him. The mixed bill was very adult and inevitably a bit uneven, but there were some really good acts, including Rosie Jones. It felt like…More

I remember enjoying this more than I remember the specifics of it. An interesting subject with some very good performances, although the acting felt a little patchy overall. There was plenty to engage with, but the writing and storytelling could be clunky and I was never entirely…More

John Lithgow was excellent as Roald Dahl. I’d seen him years before in The Magistrate at the National and he was just as compelling here. The set was amazing, essentially splitting a full house in two across the stage, and the whole play was incredibly tense. It gave a…More

It felt like the play wanted to use the manhunt and murder trial as a way into a wider discussion about toxic masculinity, but for me it never really worked out what it wanted to say. There were several interesting ideas in there about the man at the centre of the story, the…More

One of the funniest things I’ve ever seen. Such a brilliant concept, taking the already camp, over-the-top world of Michael Ball and Alfie Boe and pushing it into complete absurdity, with these two old-school crooners utterly convinced that everybody adores them. What impressed…More

A decent enough premise, but for a play about passion and threesomes it was pretty boring. There were some good lines and the performances were fine, but for a play about desire and an unconventional relationship it felt strangely lacking in chemistry or intimacy.

An impressive production and entertaining enough, even if I never completely connected with it. Steve Coogan switching between roles was the main thing I remember, particularly the clever ways they got him on and off stage, and there was some brilliant stage trickery throughout…More

I went in excited but not really knowing what to expect and was completely caught up in the energy of it. Being close enough to properly see the choreography and all the movement across the stage made a huge difference. The music, performances and sheer pace of the production all…More