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Monday, March 28, 2016

Oscar Wilde, Shaw Theatre, London by Elisabeth Mahoney

Shaw Theatre, LondonOn the opening night of former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read's musical about the Wilde one, there is a problem with the sound. The radio microphones, especially that of Peter Blak…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:21PM
Monday, May 25, 2015
Monday, July 23, 2012

Sports Play – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Chapter, CardiffThe week leading up to the opening ceremony of the Olympics is the perfect context for staging Elfriede Jelinek's epic play about the culture of sport. As excitement and grum…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:07PM
Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Short Shrifts – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Brewery, BristolTwelve short plays in less than two hours is always a tall order. How to avoid each play feeling like a sketch, merely the beginning of something? Peter Oswald's plays, which…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PM
Tuesday, July 3, 2012

Adain Avion – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Various venues, WalesWales's contribution to the Cultural Olympiad is nothing if not eye-catching. "I've just seen a plane on the Heads of the Valleys road!" one startled local tweeted on Su…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PM
Tuesday, May 29, 2012

My Life in CIA – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Cardiff city centreThis is fun. Give It a Name theatre company take audiences into the streets and hidden nooks of Cardiff at dusk as they recreate scenes from the 1970s spy thriller by Harr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PM
Monday, May 21, 2012

Bruised – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Clwyd Theatr Cymru, MoldIn his first play, actor Matthew Trevannion returns to his home town of Pontypool. That adage about writing what you know serves him well in this impre…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM
Thursday, May 17, 2012

In the Next Room, or The Vibrator Play – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Ustinov Studio, BathSarah Ruhl's extended title for her 2009 play – the last in the Ustinov's impressive season of contemporary American plays – is a nod to its two layers. Yes, it is ab…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:09PM
Monday, May 14, 2012

Barricade – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Pontadarwe Leisure CentreThere could hardly be a better, more resonant context for NoFit State's latest circus show than the current tumultuous events across Europe. "Everything's going…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:35PM
Sunday, May 13, 2012

Little Dogs – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Patti Pavilion, SwanseaDylan Thomas, whose short story Just Like Little Dogs inspired this collaboration between Frantic Assembly and National Theatre Wales, would like this show, you would …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PM
Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Pornography – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Chapter, CardiffWith their assured production of Caryl Churchill's Serious Money last year, Waking Exploits established themselves as a young Welsh theatre company to watch. In this exhilara…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM
Thursday, April 5, 2012

The Cherry Orchard – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Tobacco Factory, BristolAndrew Hilton's annual Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory season has done it again. This vivid, superlative production of Chekhov's last play, translated by Stephen M…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PM
Tuesday, March 27, 2012

Wasted review by Elisabeth Mahoney

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Tuesday, March 13, 2012

Red Light Winter – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Ustinov Studio, BathAdam Rapp's award-winning 2005 play about a love triangle shaped by double-unrequited love begins and ends with a desperate act. In the first, playwright Matt, in Amsterd…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:59PM
Thursday, March 8, 2012

A Provincial Life – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Sherman Cymru, CardiffIt is another coup, and a rather poignant one, for National Theatre Wales: bringing Peter Gill back to direct in his native city for the first time. He does so in a rev…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:30PM
Monday, February 27, 2012

The Crowstarver – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Northcott, ExeterThis adaptation of Dick King-Smith's novel set in a 1940s farming community is heart-gladdening theatre from the start. Lanterns hang in the trees over a barn where a farmer…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:15PM
Monday, November 7, 2011

Roots – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Theatr Clwyd, MoldThe look of this production of Arnold Wesker's 1959 play couldn't be more on–trend. Ruth Hall's design is all postwar 50s shabby chic: a gorgeous nostalgia-fest of retro …

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:33PM
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Schrödinger – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Arnolfini, BristolA performance piece stemming from the quantum theories of Erwin Schrödinger – he of the cat that is simultaneously dead and alive notion – sounds heavy enough. But a r…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AM
Wednesday, October 26, 2011

A Clockwork Orange – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Taliesin, SwanseaFew modern classics bring more challenges, in particular the burden of expectation, than Anthony Burgess's dystopian shocker. How do you stage it to give the full force of i…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PM
Monday, October 24, 2011

In pursuit of Bacchanalia in a Welsh village hall by Elisabeth Mahoney

National Theatre Wales's first musical, The Village Social, is a dark-comic cocktail of the Bacchae and the Vicar of Dibley. Elisabeth Mahoney joins its rural tourGiven the buzz about him at…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:57AM
Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Much Ado About Nothing – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Taliesin, SwanseaAfter the sexy energy of their production of Dangerous Liaisons last year, Mappa Mundi's take on Shakespeare's romcom, featuring bickering lovers and disgraced innocence, is…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PM
Monday, September 26, 2011

You're Not Doing It Right – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Brewery, BristolTwins, living on an island 99 metres off the coast of Bournemouth, greet the audience. They are standing in a fish tank. "I'm Peter," says the young woman, played by Susie Ri…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM
Wednesday, September 21, 2011

The Drowned World – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Chapter, CardiffIn the nine years since Gary Owen's ferociously bleak dystopian play premiered, its concerns have grown ever more pressing. This is a world divided into the beautiful and rep…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:34PM
Thursday, September 1, 2011

The Fair Maid of the West – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

New theatre, ExeterIt is not difficult to guess who Thomas Heywood was flattering with his 1599 swashbuckling play about a plucky maid called Bess who is chaste and true, and rules in a man'…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PM
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Discombobulated – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

The Brewery, BristolPart of the Bristol Ferment season dedicated to new and emerging theatrical work and talent, Discombobulated immediately lives up to its fine title. Performers Angus Barr…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:28AM
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

Chess – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Aberystwyth Arts CentreWhile most of theatreland beyond Edinburgh slows or closes in high summer, Aberystwyth Arts Centre puts on a musical, one of its biggest shows of the year. Last year's…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PM
Friday, July 1, 2011

Lifedeathlife – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Chapter, CardiffDanceWhat is it to be a woman right here, right now? How can you articulate through movement? And what can you say? Caroline Sabin isn't the only artist to pose these questio…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:59PM
Wednesday, June 22, 2011

The Container – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Chapter, CardiffClare Bayley's powerful 2007 play, performed in a 40ft shipping container and revived for Refugee Week, is one you are glad to flee when it ends. A deliberately gruelling and…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:30PM
Monday, June 6, 2011

Radio review: Flare Path by Elisabeth Mahoney

Radio 3's staging of Terence Rattigan's 1941 play provided a warm and moving introduction to the playwright's workThe Terence Rattigan season, which celebrates the centenary of the playwrigh…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AM
Sunday, May 22, 2011

The Taming of the Shrew - review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Clwyd Theatr Cymru, MoldSome productions of Shakespeare's comedy about the taming of a spirited young woman into happy obedience are an uneasy watch for anyone with even remotely feminist sy…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PM
Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Epic – review by Elisabeth Mahoney

Tobacco Factory, BristolHistory can be a slippery old business. It's not just the contrasting versions of the past, but a question of how we relate to the big events and key dates. These iss…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:44PM

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