PRESS REVIEWS
Angie Le Mar has been entertaining audiences for 25 years on stage and TV and has directed and written successful shows including, The Brothers, Funny Black Women on The Edge, Do You Know Where Your Daughter Is and Forty. On this page you will find some of the reviews written by theatre critics, the press and video footage of comments by the public at large. We coudn't find negative ones, we tried honest.
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Celebrities and members of the public comment on the show, Angie Le Mar, Celebrating 25 Years, at the Barbican, and her contribution to the entertainment industry. |
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| An Audience With Angie Le Mar - CELEBRATING 25 Years - The Barbican | ||
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Afrodiziac Theatre News Tales of when her siblings were sent for from Jamaica and how that transformed her family life to how Roots affected her relationship with her white school friends. more.... |
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The Voice online I WAS recently invited to An Audience With Angie Le Mar at the Barbican Theatre, where Angie performed in front of a celeb-packed audience that included actors Chucky Venice, Jason Barret, Michelle Gayle and many others more.... |
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| THE BROTHERS - Various Theatres & MTV Base (Television) | ||
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Afrodiziac Theatre News Angie Le Mar’s acclaimed play, The Brothers is coming to the small screen courtesy of ‘Straight To Audience Productions’ a company owned by Angie Le Mar, author and director of this sell-out play more.... |
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Blues & Soul The Brother first ran as a soap on Angie Le Mars popular Choice FM show and then transferred to the stage at the Hackney Empire in October 2005. Angies brilliantly scripted and entertaining play became a phenominal success and became the fastest selling show at the theatre in 10 years More... |
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The New Black Magazine The first thing that struck me when I walked into the main theatre of the Hackney Empire on the opening night of The Brothers is that it was packed from the stall right up to the upper circle there wasn’t a single free seat. You couldn’t help but be drawn into the atmosphere. I was excited! More... |
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| FUNNY BLACK WOMEN - Various Theatres, including the Edinburgh Festival 1994 | ||
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The Independent - Arts & Entertainment The first word of the title Funny Black Women is the most enormous hostage to fortune for a comedy revue, but luckily the women lived up to their name in performing sketches about everything from Aswad to absentee fathers. More... |
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Ethnic Now - Entertainment News And with an endless amount of sketches to choose from, including The Lovers Rock Musical, The Black Vagina Stories, Slavery – The Musical, Ah Who Dem Favour (Stars In Their Eyes), and the hilarious American singer Falushla Falashilay (who is out of rehab but still carrying a lot of More... |
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Edinburgh Festival - Various Reviews But what marks her out from the pack is that her observation is shrewd, her writing sharp and tangy and, above all, unblinkered, good natured and generous. (Peter Whitebrook, The Scotsman) more.... |
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| DO YOU KNOW WHERE YOUR DAUGHTER IS - Various Theatres & Edinburgh Festival 2010 | ||
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Fringe Review - Edinburgh Festival Just by that title, there is a fair chance that you can guess the story, the twists and even the ending of this production. And maybe you can, but this is less about the story but more about those who tell it and the words they use. More... |
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The Stage - What's on reviews The themes of parent/child disharmoney, peer pressure and the consequences of unprotected sex are addressed without much subtlety - its left to the actors to deliver the realism, and the do that with varying degrees of success. More... |
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