Menier Chocolate Factory

CLOSE UP- TWIGGY Fantasic musical... great music and a stage full of brilliant actors 👏 taking on the Twiggy story 👍 there was nobody trying to outshine anybody....even at the end the leading cast members in the show just blended into the total cast to take a standing ovation from the audience. Great support from the musicians making the whole experience a theatre night to remember

Love the theatre. Always have. It is quite unique! Wish it were a bit bigger and a bit cooler. The musical show was about Twiggy. Written and directed by Ben Elton. Perfect balance of story with music of the time and some personal choices that are not of the era. The cast was excellent and the audience responded.

Cute theatre, always has interesting productions on and a nice atmosphere. Located not far from London Bridge Station. Seats are a bit uncomfortable after awhile, they are bench style but has good ranking for views of the stage. Shame the restaurant is no more, staff friendly and cute little bar for drinks.

It was lovely to see that this theatre has survived lockdown. Almost every production I've seen is memorable. I noticed that the bustling cafe is no more. I hope they're able to restart that in the future. The charging bar at the back is up and running. I visited to see The Third Man, which I found rather charming and lovely (contrary to some of the reviews). There is a large ensemble cast. The quality of the songwriting was very high. Accompanied by a live orchestra up in the gods. What's not to love. See it if you can a ticket, some of which are being heavily discounted to £10.

The Menier Chocolate Factory used to be a buzzy, zeitgeisty, award winning theatre with an art gallery and exellent pre theatre dining space. Coming here now is pleasant enough, but there's a sense things have moved on, and the Menier has been left behind. The dining space and art gallery are, alas, no more. The Menier is proud of its past - posters of theatre productions that have graced the stage here adorn the walls - but where is today's history in the making? I was at the Menier to see a new musical, "The Third Man," (based on Carol Reed's film noir classic) set in a shady post-WW2 Vienna where nothing is as it seems, not least the death of black marketeer, Harry Lime. Though Don Black's lyrics rarely rose above the mundane, the score, with its clever echos of Weimer cabaret, was a different matter entirely. Together with the staging and direction by Trevor Nunn - which was a minimalist, monochrome, delight - a wonderful sense of mood, time, and place was established. This was a seductive, 'come hither, come zither' production. Derek Griffiths, children's TV icon of (my) yesteryear, has a small role in this production. He stole every scene he was in. An act of light fingered larceny that was a joy to behold.

It is a bit of a different venue for a theatre. It feels like an abandoned warehouse with a theatre in one part and is less obviously a theatre from the outside due to the look of the building The seats are long padded benches that don't tip up which causes problems if you need to pass others in the row, but they are reasonably comfy and well-tiered.