Pocket Size Theatre: Top 10 Best shows of 2018!

Theatre in 2018 has been incredible! We're ending the year in a strange place, lots of long running shows closing but also lots of exciting shows coming up! Click here to see a list of shows we're looking forward too. We reflect, with our incredible team, on some of the best shows of the year. Take a look!

Six at the Arts Theatre

"Hamilton may be in trouble, theres new girls on the block and they've come to steal your fans. The music will be stuck in your head for days and this has to be one of the hottest shows of 2018. Get your tickets now, however I suspect we’ll see the return of this show to London very soon."

Six returns to the Arts Theatre from the 16th January after completing a sold out run at the Arts Theatre and a successful UK tour.

Read our ★★★★★ review here!

Julius Caesar at The Bridge Theatre

"An absolute must-see for those who perhaps don't know Shakespeare as well as they should as it brings his historical text stampeding into the modern day and for those who know it like the back of their hand: it's new, vibrant and will be unlike any other retelling you've seen before. Shakespearean perfection."

Julius Caesar played the Bridge Theatre form January through to April with a National Theatre Live broadcast in March.

Read our ★★★★★ review here!

REVIEW: The White Rose at The Brockley Jack Theatre

Now in its fifth year, the Arrows & Traps Theatre Company is back with a heart breaking and grippingly human story of a group of young activists, The White Rose, led by Sophie Scholl and her brother Hans, who in 1943 published underground anti-Nazi leaflets calling for the peaceful overthrow of Hitler and paid for it with their lives after being discovered.

The show opens with images and words from Hitler laughing at how the English think the Germans will soon fold and are tired of war. This only makes his rage bigger and we watch how the war machine grows, how people become consumed with only one fatal aim: absolute war. This can’t help but set an uneasy feeling in the theatre, and soon after, we discover Sophie Scholl being interrogated by Robert Mohr. The interrogation is interspersed with scenes of friendship and fun with her sibling and friends with whom she studied philosophy and biology at university in Munich. While continuously bantering about Kant and Goethe, they are also organising the distribution of thousands of anti-Nazi leaflets around the country.