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With a single dessert and just two glasses of wine our bill was kept in check - but the effort of doing so was not much fun
Babbo
Film
This is a film with beautiful performances and a visual style that urges you towards reflection
Bright Star
Theatre
Although the first half of Kwei-Armah’s production is pacy, funny and intelligent, the energy level then drops off
Seize The Day
I loved this film from start to finish. Take the girlfriend, tell your mum - I'd see it again tomorrow and will buy the dvd.
I saw this last night and can't remember the last time I was so moved in the theatre.
I have been to many of London's so-called best Japanese restaurants and none have been as good as the food that I've had at Aqua Kyoto
London,
Fiona Mountford's rating
Reader rating
Dir: Ellie Jones.
Cast: Southwark Playhouse
Description: A contemporary drama by Fin Kennedy which follows a young executive's desire to buck the system and find himself.
Trains: Tube: London Bridge 
Phone: 0207407 0324
Website: www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
Email: admin@southwarkplayhouse.co.uk
It’s not difficult to see why Fin Kennedy’s How to Disappear Completely... won the John Whiting Award for new writing. Kennedy takes the intriguing topic of identity (do we amount to any more than the data that is stored on us?) slots it into a sophisticated structure that uses a split time-frame and blends everything into a narrative that is crying out to be described as Kafkaesque.
Even so, there are times when Ellie Jones’s production makes all these promising elements seem mundane rather than compelling.
Advertising executive Charlie (Luke Norris) has been driven to drink and drugs by a grinding corporate culture. Burdened by debt, he escapes to Southend to do as the title says, yet a pathologist insists he is already dead. We just about care enough to want to discover why.
Until 1 November. (020 7407 0234, www.southwarkplayhouse.co.uk).
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
