Home Brewed Reviews

“A dark, heart-wrenching yet hopeful exploration of Britain’s slave trade”

Original West End Hamilton star Giles Terera and his company shook the audience to its core last Thursday night with a workshop performance of his new play “The Meaning of Zong”, the story of how a massacre of innocents on the slave ship Zong in 1781 affected the course of history for the nightmare that was the slave trade and helped bring about it’s eventual abolishment. Continue reading “The Meaning of Zong – Workshop Review”

“A deep, relevant and alternate exploration of teenage mental health and the effects of social media, led by an outstanding cast”

I first heard the jaw-dropping soundtrack of Broadway smash-hit Dear Evan Hansen as a randomly shuffled song on Spotify over a year ago, and after an endless search for any kind of YouTube snippet, cast interview or live performances just to get a glimpse at the ground-breaking musical was I finally able to see the show in person whilst on vacation to New York in August of 2018. And my god was it worth the wait. Continue reading “Dear Evan Hansen – Review”