Modest London Reviews and Tickets
Show-Score Member Reviews (4)
See it if You like looking at history with a quirky modern lense
Don't see it if you dont like a play with some songs
See it if You’re really Into the cast.
Don't see it if You like proper musical theatre or shows that are easy to follow. Found it hard to get into, confusing at times.
See it if You want a clever but fun night out challenging gender
Don't see it if You can’t see outside the binary
See it if You are an Art lover and love modern narratives and musicals
Don't see it if You are afraid of drag shows
Critic Reviews (8)
"This show is animated by a delight in putting queer, trans and vaguely feminist themes in front of a receptive audience: but not much more than that."
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“ ‘Modest’ throws so much in the air that it cannot tackle all that it raises but then again, the fact that it leaves us with unresolved, sometimes contradictory questions around women and power, adds to its nuance. And the show bubbles over with charisma, which wins us over.”
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“There’s no denying that the play knows its audience and that its drag king-inflected playfulness is one way of putting across points of view that, in other hands, might seem merely a staged thesis. The climactic rallying cry prompts a cheer – and reminds us that the work of the revolutionary is never done.”
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“This is a play driven by polemic rather than realism or even incident, and at two hours plus interval that’s a testing amount of knowingly overstated satire.”
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“Taking inspiration from the Music Hall entertainment that would have been popular at the time, ’Modest,’ with its Drag King cast, succeeds in telling a second, and arguably just as important, story, and does much to promote representation on the stage. It also happens to be a whole lot of fun.”
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“ ‘Modest’ is distinctive in its acknowledgment of sexism across the centuries. And kudos to Fizz Sinclair - her performance is wondrous ecstasy as she lip-syncs and morphs from one character to the next. It might not be faultless - but ‘Modest’ is a quick-witted, bawdy, diamond in the rough.”
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"On storytelling, character development and nuance, it is two and a half hours that goes nowhere. On representation, audience appeal and addressing past injustices, well, the reaction in the house to this Middle Child and Milk Presents collaboration will confirm that the job is done."
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“The show’s real success is in portraying the lives of those she inspired but for whom existing is hard – the Bessies and Franceses. They are the real stars. And in today’s world, the ones still struggling.”
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