Friday, February 7, 2020
National Theatre, LondonSpall is like a man possessed in Roy Williams’ and Clint Dyer’s hair-raising dramatic monologue about the grief and grievances of a working-class white male
In th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMThursday, February 6, 2020
Almeida, LondonRevived by Rupert Goold just over two years after its premiere, this subtle drama has grown with new meaning
In 2017, Rupert Goold directed a state-of-the-nation play by Mike …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMFriday, January 31, 2020
Pound Arts Centre, Corsham Luke Wright’s eloquent verse monologue pairs Brexit with the breakdown of a marriage
Luke Wright is a poet for our day and today in particular. This dramatic mon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, January 29, 2020
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonChris Bush’s female Faustus is original, ambitious and fantastically revisionist – but this bare-boned production fails to save its soul
Doctor Faustus, as we kn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMTuesday, January 28, 2020
Orange Tree, LondonOscar Toeman directs a striking revival of the 2003 play about the relationship between a teenage girl and a paedophile
Since Lucy Prebble’s award-winning first play pr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMMonday, January 27, 2020
KVS, BrusselsThe complicated legacy of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela is fearlessly transformed into a radical and rousing musical
When Winnie Madikizela-Mandela died in 2018, she was seen both a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMThursday, January 23, 2020
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonIan Rickson’s exquisite production is enlivened with expertly weighted humour and a modern beat
Last year, David Hare teamed up with Rupert Everett to stage an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12PMLyttelton, LondonTwelve bickering, bantering women must determine an accused murderer’s pregnancy claim in this admirable drama
The Welkin is a courtroom drama that sets itself up as a wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMWednesday, January 22, 2020
Boulevard theatre, LondonGary Beadle and Jasper Britton are excellent in this static and plotless existential treatise, but still can’t transcend its dramatic limitations
There is a flagra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AMTuesday, January 21, 2020
Belgrade theatre, CoventryThe story of Sarah Bonetta Davies, given to Queen Victoria, is contrasted with a modern black British woman in Janice Okoh’s play
The historian David Olusoga has …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18PMSunday, January 19, 2020
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonDavid Threlfall, James Hayes, Niall Buggy and Lisa Dwan star in Trevor Nunn’s atmospheric productions of Krapp’s Last Tape, Eh Joe and The Old Tune
Harold Pi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMFriday, January 17, 2020
Pleasance theatre, London Julie Tsang’s modern gothic fairytale is full of ideas and has some creepy moments but it never quite delivers
Fix opens with all the thrilling promise of a moder…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMWednesday, January 15, 2020
He gave up football after being racially abused on the terraces. Now the barrier-breaking writer, actor and director has turned his scars into a play about a bigoted white family
As a child,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMTuesday, January 14, 2020
Royal Exchange, ManchesterCharlene James’s 2016 play about female genital mutilation combines a powerful social message with bursts of humour
It’s a “messed-up tradition” says one o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMMonday, January 13, 2020
New Diorama, LondonSuperb performances by Annabel Baldwin and Rachel Hosker capture the intimacy and grief of this fearlessly revisionist retelling of Sophocles’ drama
This startling retel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMFriday, January 10, 2020
Finborough theatre, LondonAthena Stevens creates comedy and occasional danger from a real-life incident in this tricksy drama
‘Part of being a creative person who happens to have a disabil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PMWednesday, January 8, 2020
Hampstead theatre, LondonAlexandra Wood’s spirited story of modern womanhood reminds us that the blood-bond of sisterhood has hard edges
For 40 years, the photographer Nicholas Nixon took…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMMonday, January 6, 2020
Film reviewers sank their claws into Cats, but is it really so awful? Our stage reviewers steeled themselves for the caterwauling ... but ended up quite enjoying it
It can be very pleasurab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, January 2, 2020
Tom Stoppard gets personal, Cush Jumbo does Hamlet, Hollywood names bring everything from tragedy to comedy … plus dance confronts shame and there’s standup open heart surgery Continue r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMFriday, December 13, 2019
Belgrade theatre, CoventryCharacters including The Great Gatsby’s Daisy round on a Greek god in this bewildering Christmas show
The setting is a cabaret-style jazz club with saxophonist, d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12PMThursday, December 12, 2019
National Theatre, LondonGaiman’s novel turns into a dynamic and quirky stage spectacular, though at the expense of the more nuanced relationships
There are some hair-raising monsters in T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Almeida, LondonLydia Wilson is riveting as the strong-willed duchess in Rebecca Frecknall’s arresting update
When The Duchess of Malfi was revived in 1945 after falling out of fashion for …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, December 9, 2019
Bunker, LondonMatilda Ibini’s autobiographical coming-of-age play mixes serious scenes with underpowered comedy sketches
Little Miss Burden begins as a Jackanory-style story, narrated by t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48PMThis year, the tried-and-tested tale at London’s Old Vic is up against subversive surprises at Wilton’s Music Hall, where Scrooge’s sister takes the lead
Charles Dickens knew he had st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:18PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Royal Court, LondonSaturating the senses with sound, light and sign language, this imaginative experience explores whether the web can free us from our ‘glitching’ bodies
In Midnight Mov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMMonday, December 2, 2019
She needed police protection after her play about a rape in a Sikh temple was axed mid-run. The playwright talks about the extraordinary upbringing that drives her
Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti was a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMMonday, November 18, 2019
Park theatre, LondonAnna Akhmatova is forced to choose between artistic integrity and saving her son in Olivia Olsen’s play
In 1935, Anna Akhmatova began writing Requiem in Soviet Russia. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMFriday, November 8, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonSamuel Bailey’s moving play is carried along by its characters’ wisecracking – and reveals the anguish hidden underneath
The bored young men in Shook yearn t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMWednesday, November 6, 2019
Her musical Poet in da Corner brought raving to the Royal Court. Now the writer and performer is exploring first love. She talks Mormonism, trauma and teen dreams
Debris Stevenson’s first …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonVR headsets and a gender switch give National Youth Theatre’s exuberant production a modern twist, but the storytelling feels gimmicky
‘The human era is coming…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMThursday, October 31, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonIn his debut play, starring Alan Davies, David Baddiel gambles on a mash-up of physics and midlife crisis
Alan Davies emerges on stage to address the room, or so it seems…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM 
