Friday, June 25, 2021
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonTanika Gupta sends Gandhi overseas, Simon Stephens sees devastation in locked-down London and Roy Williams lightens the mood with a local hero story
The monologue be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, June 24, 2021
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIn Yasmin Joseph’s play, three girls wind their way through the streets, guided by the spirit of the activist who founded the carnival
J’Ouvert evokes the sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54PMWednesday, June 23, 2021
National Theatre, LondonLyndsey Turner’s production is a charming albeit emotionally distanced retreat into nostalgia
Dylan Thomas’s drama, broadcast on radio in 1954 , has been recited …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMTuesday, June 22, 2021
Almeida, LondonYomi Ṣode’s startling play about death, mourning and young masculinity is intensified by its weight of emotion and sensational stagecraft
This is a strange and startling …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMSunday, June 20, 2021
The creator of the hit play Seven Methods of Killing Kylie Jenner on the power of comedy and why Instagram is almost like cosplay
Jasmine Lee-Jones, 22, is a writer and actor from London. In…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMFriday, June 18, 2021
Riverside Studios, LondonTrevor Nunn’s production of Samuel Beckett’s classic play is stronger on music-hall comedy than bleakness
When Peggy Ashcroft played Winnie at the National Theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMWednesday, June 16, 2021
Theatre Royal BathUncertainty reigns supreme in a fast and fluid revival of Michael Frayn’s resonant, if sometimes impenetrable, play
Rehearsals for this revival of Michael Frayn’s award…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, June 15, 2021
Theatre Peckham, LondonIn Shaan Sahota’s audio play, which is touring theatres, a junior doctor tries to navigate the early days of the pandemic
A junior doctor’s first nervous day at wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:12PMThursday, June 10, 2021
The actor had a great lockdown: she learned to cook, took up cello – and fell in love. Now six months pregnant, Dwan’s about to be buried up to her neck in Happy Days. Is she worried?
Li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMSunday, June 6, 2021
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London
Kibong Tanji is outstanding as the sister of the victim in Dipo Baruwa-Etti’s play which is dynamic and gripping but lacks tonal variety
The Sun, the M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42AMFriday, June 4, 2021
Hampstead theatre, LondonDepravity takes hold of a pair of young black entrepreneurs in 1970s London in this revival of Alfred Fagon’s idea-filled play
It has taken almost half a century f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMThursday, June 3, 2021
Theatre Royal Bath Fiennes imbues Eliot’s last great poem with all the drama of a Shakespearean soliloquy in a magnificent, intimate theatrical experience
By the time TS Eliot wrote his l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMSaturday, May 29, 2021
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonArterton plays a former Nasa employee whose astronaut twin descends on her wilderness retreat in Amy Berryman’s intelligent, soulful drama
Twin sisters with a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMThursday, May 27, 2021
Kiln theatre, LondonStarring in her play about friendship, romance and spina bifida, Amy Trigg is enormously entertaining
There are several good reasons to love Amy Trigg’s debut play abou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PMMonday, May 24, 2021
Available onlineTwo gritty audio dramas, one about homelessness and sex work, the other about county lines drug dealing, find hope in the power of female friendships
Blis-ta and Cunch are tw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:54PMBush theatre, LondonPhoebe Eclair-Powell’s intoxicating social media drama, starring Kelly Gough as a lonely estate agent, exceeds even the brilliance of the BBC’s recent version
During …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMFriday, May 21, 2021
Barn theatre, CirencesterRachel Redford shines as a student recruited to mess with British heads, in a joint production with the Arcola theatre
‘Who owns your data?” asks Masha, the tort…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMThursday, May 20, 2021
Bridge theatre, LondonStunning visual effects light up this installation about two orphaned Afghan boys who embark on an epic journey
Getting into the auditorium for Flight involves a labori…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMAs his new play The Spank opens in Italy, the writer talks about the power of ludicrous ideas, the crisis facing the middle class – and why he can’t get white liberals off his phone
Hani…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMWednesday, May 19, 2021
Jermyn Street theatre, London Biyi Bandele’s daring and surreal play, set against some unspoken outside threat, pitches its characters into a whirl of confusion
Two men stew in the confine…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMIn the last of our series profiling rising theatre talents, the director of The Ocean at the End of the Lane shares her excitement at the return of live performance
Everyone wanted to be inv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, May 7, 2021
Frances de la Tour plays another of the playwright’s fascinating women in a three-minute sketch for Nottingham Playhouse’s digital series
If Covid-secure theatre accidentally sparked a r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMWednesday, May 5, 2021
The rising star’s rich career is built on a determination to widen diversity in theatre – and bring a true voice to his roles
Eben Figueiredo remembers a voice lesson at drama school in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMTuesday, May 4, 2021
As The Death of a Black Man returns to Hampstead theatre, it’s time to remember and revive Fagon’s other confounding and ambitious dramas
Alfred Fagon was many things before becoming a p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:24PMMonday, May 3, 2021
Available onlineTyger Drew-Honey and Kirsten Foster star in Shaun McKenna’s noirish tale of crime and punishment
Apartment blocks can make convenient backdrops for noirish thrillers with d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMFriday, April 30, 2021
Available onlineIn a twist on John Byrne’s debut Writer’s Cramp, this is a fast-paced spoof hagiography of pulpy romance author Pamela Crichton Capers
In 1977, John Byrne staged his deb…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, April 28, 2021
Available onlineThis moreish serial drama finds new terrain with excellent performances from Rachael Stirling and Alec Newman
“You’re on mute,” says Emilia to Giovanni, minutes into th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMSunday, April 25, 2021
BBC iPlayer
Covid-postponed production moves the play to the 1950s but lacks the inventiveness of the National’s recent Romeo and Juliet
This RSC production opens in a 20th-century Sicilia…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PMWednesday, April 21, 2021
After embarking accidentally on his career, Pappenheim has created innovative soundscapes for theatre, opera and radio
Max Pappenheim’s journey into sound design comprises a series of happ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54AMMonday, April 19, 2021
Available onlineThis set of 15 monologues – from writers including Lemn Sissay, Jodi Gray and Juno Dawson – is heartfelt but feels underpowered
In one of the 15 monologues here, Juno Daw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMThursday, April 15, 2021
Available online A meeting between the writer and the double agent, once colleagues at MI6, is strong on friendship and betrayal – but takes us no closer to the heart of either man
In Febr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PM 
