Have you seen the raft of rave reviews for our Featured Show? The European premiere of Harvey Fierstein‘s Casa Valentina, which is now running at London’s Southwark Playhouse, has wowed critics and has also been nominated for four OffWestEnd.com Awards, including Best Play. Scroll down for links and excerpts from some of our favourite reviews, plus some top-value Valentina videos…
DON’T MISS THIS SHOW! Casa Valentina continues until 10 October 2015 only. Special offer tickets are now available for you and your Mates, priced at just £15 (normally £18). Quote SUGARTIME when booking via Southwark Playhouse.
Reviews
BRITISH THEATRE – ★★★★★
Stephen Collins: ‘A very important and timely play. It places the microscope on notions of equalityin ways that are rarely discussed or contemplated. It’s funny, frivolous, serious and important all at once…
Mark Shenton: ‘Witty and gritty, warm-hearted and tough… A remarkable true story is given a poignant and deeply compassionate public airing, throwing a vivid human spotlight on a need that is deeply private yet yearns to be publicly expressed.’
Jo Caird: ‘Delightfully camp and high spirited… Moments of tenderness and truth regularly pierce the hilarity… Luke Sheppard has teased wonderfully subtle performances from his entire cast.’
David Clack: ‘A bright and engaging production about a politically conflicted transvestite colony… Sassy one-liners fly like spangles off a diamante earring… A smart, superbly funny take on queer politics’
Jody Tranter: ‘To say that Casa Valentina is about transvestites would be like saying Hamlet is about a Danish Prince: the piece explores otherness, prejudice and how readily even the most marginalised will marginalise others in their quest to be ‘normal’.’
Jonathan Baz: ‘Gareth Snook’s handbagged creation is every inch a woman whose shrewd and ruthless politics channel Margaret Thatcher crossed with Machiavelli. Perfectly poised and sensational without sensationalising’
Terri Paddock runs the Terri Paddock Group, which provides content and social media marketing services for theatre clients across channels including MyTheatreMates.com, StageFaves.com, Stage Talk and TerriPaddock.com. Previously,
Terri Paddock founded WhatsOnStage.com and the WhatsOnStage Awards, running the company and its events from 1996 to 2013. Terri is also the author of two novels, Come Clean and Beware the Dwarfs, and has previously written for the Evening Standard, Independent, The Times and other national publications. She is renowned for her 'legendary' post-show Q&As and also produces the annual Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and acts as a digital, content strategy and event consultant for theatre, producers and other clients. She tweets about theatre at @TerriPaddock.
Terri Paddock runs the Terri Paddock Group, which provides content and social media marketing services for theatre clients across channels including MyTheatreMates.com, StageFaves.com, Stage Talk and TerriPaddock.com. Previously,
Terri Paddock founded WhatsOnStage.com and the WhatsOnStage Awards, running the company and its events from 1996 to 2013. Terri is also the author of two novels, Come Clean and Beware the Dwarfs, and has previously written for the Evening Standard, Independent, The Times and other national publications. She is renowned for her 'legendary' post-show Q&As and also produces the annual Critics' Circle Theatre Awards and acts as a digital, content strategy and event consultant for theatre, producers and other clients. She tweets about theatre at @TerriPaddock.