Thursday, November 17, 2022
Theatre Royal BathGeorge Bernard Shaw’s discomfiting play finds a commanding lead in Quentin, playing alongside her real-life daughter Rose
It is clear to see why George Bernard Shaw’s 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, November 16, 2022
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonThere’s tension in Terry Johnson’s tale of four couples meeting for sex and nibbles but the unruly debate isn’t deep enough
At first, The Sex Party look…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMMonday, November 14, 2022
Omnibus theatre, LondonAnna Coombs strips out two-thirds of the characters to deliver an intimate and intense adaptation of Shakespeare’s play
There is no sign of courtly pomp or ceremony…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PMFriday, November 11, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonJoe White’s romantic tragedy is a brave and original depiction of the hedonistic excess and inner battles of a co-dependent couple struggling with alcoholism
The c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, November 10, 2022
White Bear theatre, LondonInspired by real-life accounts, Jules Chan’s play returns the audience to the early months of the pandemic but doesn’t create enough drama
This part-verbatim dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMIn the first of a series of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we consider the view from the Watermill theatre, Welsh National Opera and Pai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, November 9, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonExploring the agent’s life after she fell into Nazi hands, this beguilingly played story reflects on bravery and culpability
Not enough is known of Noor Inayat K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMSunday, November 6, 2022
The Pit, Barbican, London With live music, video and spoken word testimony, a dramatic rap subculture energetically seizes the chance to present its own complicated story on stage
Seven bala…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMFriday, November 4, 2022
Royal Court theatre, LondonMartin Crimp’s show uses AI and deep-fake technology to question the definition of drama – and what it is to be human
There are circles within circles of inqui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMThursday, November 3, 2022
North Wall Arts Centre, OxfordDeborah Pugh delivers a brilliantly intense take on the ancient tales, foregrounding the heroism of women
‘This is the story of my severed head.” As first l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMAvailable onlineEffectively filmed for streaming audiences in a sharply told adaptation, this adventure stars Luke Barton as the bumptious master detective
“If this is to be our final adve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMTuesday, November 1, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonRona Munro’s engaging debate drama has some thrilling exchanges as three characters argue the case for and against Mary Queen of Scots
The Mary of the title refers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMSunday, October 30, 2022
Wilton’s Music Hall, LondonSet in the New Mexico desert, David Farr’s unusual play dips into virtual reality in order to raise questions of love, life and what constitutes the human esse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMFriday, October 28, 2022
Seven Dials Playhouse, LondonA distressed woman unravels after her father’s suicide in a play that strikes the wrong balance between humour and sorrow
Daddy Issues sets itself a tall order…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMThursday, October 27, 2022
They have suffered vicious abuse and ugly trolling, but the team behind the Globe’s Shakespeare and Race festival tell our writer why their work feels more urgent than ever
When Farah Kari…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMAlmeida, London Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMTuesday, October 25, 2022
Park theatre, LondonExcellent performances enhance this story of three young boys hurtling towards gang culture
King Hamlin begins with a teenager’s funeral. We learn of the boy’s stabbi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMMonday, October 24, 2022
Park theatre, LondonThis adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel about a gay man grieving for his lover lacks the depth of Tom Ford’s movie version
Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 nov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMThursday, October 20, 2022
Bristol Old VicWith inky backdrops, jagged sound and frenzied violence, John Haidar’s production stars Billy Howle as a prince emanating unhinged anger
The opening scene suggests that this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMWednesday, October 19, 2022
Barbican, LondonThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact
How to adapt an iconic film made by the creative giants at Stud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49AMTuesday, October 18, 2022
Minerva theatre, ChichesterIn spite of a nifty set and new songs, this story of an oil-man trying to buy a Highlands village never quite comes alive
This adaptation of Bill Forsyth’s 1983 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMSunday, October 16, 2022
The Hope theatre, LondonThe characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMFriday, October 14, 2022
Reading Rep theatrePlaywright Gary McNair turns the gothic novel into a brilliantly bewitching show performed by Audrey Brisson
The small square stage looks more fitted up for a standup gig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMThursday, October 13, 2022
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonRevived with a superb cast, CP Taylor’s play about a professor embracing nazism is fascinating psychological theatre with the feel of a fever dream
There is an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMWednesday, October 12, 2022
Available onlineA virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter
This virtual conversation between Samuel …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMTuesday, October 11, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJenna Fincken’s one-woman play, inspired by real stories, gets inside the head of a young woman in a toxic relationship
Jenna Fincken’s one-woman play anatomis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMMonday, October 10, 2022
Half Moon theatre, LondonElayne Ogbeta’s play explores intergenerational love as a man struggles to tell his granddaughter that he is leaving Britain
I have not told my nieces what Grandad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMSunday, October 9, 2022
Duke of York’s Theatre, LondonRobert Icke’s combative 2019 play about medical ethics, identity politics and antisemitism returns to the West End to divide and challenge audiences
The ret…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49PMFriday, October 7, 2022
Rodreguez King-Dorset takes the stage as three protagonists in a coruscating drama about the Windrush scandal
Rodreguez King-Dorset’s drama about racism and the Windrush scandal first took…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMTuesday, October 4, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonGeorgina Burns’ debut play about an overburdened counselling unit presents perceptive insights and no easy answers
A therapist at an NHS counselling unit jokes dar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMMonday, October 3, 2022
Available onlineWriter Jessica Walker sings strongly but this tale of family dysfunction and abuse doesn’t hang together
It is reassuring to see online shows being made beyond pandemic nec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PM 
