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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: Josie Rourke.
Cast: The Bush Theatre
Description: A new play by Anthony Weigh, performed in near or total darkness. Directed by Josie Rourke.
Trains: Tube: Shepherds Bush 
Phone: 0208743 5050
Website: www.bushtheatre.co.uk
Terror in the twilight: John Ramm in The Flooded Grave, the ghost story that ends the evening of three short plays at the Bush
“The lights are off but everyone’s home” is the apt tag-line for this enterprising mini-season. A series of leaks in the Bush’s increasingly unfit-for-purpose building means the stage lights cannot be used but, although the electrics are failing, the new writing policy is still going strong.
Ever-enterprising Artistic Director Josie Rourke has commissioned short pieces from 10 playwrights on the loose theme of darkness and light, and the results are promising.
This continually surprising evening is divided into three parts. Still to come in the Falling Light strand are works from Neil LaBute and Bryony Lavery. Currently playing is Sea Wall, a superb monologue from Simon Stephens. The engaging Andrew Scott is Alex, an uxorious young man with an eccentric father-in-law, who finds his contented family life torn apart. Stephens packs more into these 25 minutes than most writers manage in a full-length drama.
Declan Feenan’s St Petersburg is the only work that runs every night and while it’s never less than watchable, it’s meandering, inconsequential stuff. Mairead McKinley excels as a hard-pressed, good-natured Irish woman grappling with a profound shift in her family’s dynamic, as her housebound elderly father increasingly necessitates the sort of babying treatment she would give to her children.
What the Dark Feels Like ends the evening with a ghost story. Sadly the press night offering, The Flooded Grave by Anthony Weigh, was disappointingly free of chills in its account of extreme Christianity out on the Fens. Still, the space might be broken but the spirit is undoubtedly intact.
Until 25 Oct (020 7610 4224)
Details are correct at the time of publication - please check with venue before booking.
