Monday, December 9, 2019
Bush theatre, LondonRagevan Vasan and Emily Stott star as a couple pulled apart by their backgrounds in this play by slam poet Zia Ahmed
The question of how to build intimacy across the div…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:18PMWednesday, November 27, 2019
National Theatre, LondonNiamh Cusack and Catherine McCormack perform the central roles with magnetic force in this frenetically comic adaptation of Ferrante’s Neapolitan quartet
At the sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMMonday, September 9, 2019
Forget trying to saw Debbie McGee in half – some conjurers are using their skills to help surgeons, refugee children and even imagine a better future
What image does the word “magic” c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48PMFriday, August 2, 2019
As she prepares to direct an unstaged script by the late pirate queen of counterculture, theatre-maker Kate Valk recalls how they met – and how she dealt with Acker’s challenging attitud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMSunday, July 21, 2019
Stoller Hall, Manchester; The Lowry, SalfordMaxine Peake is a woman possessed in The Nico Project, while Ivo van Hove adapts Ayn Rand’s controversial novelHow can The Nico Project excavate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMWednesday, May 8, 2019
Survivors of addiction have taken over a shop in Bournemouth to stage Secret Voices. Their raw and harrowing stories show the holiday town in a new light
Two men circle each other in a salt-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12AMSunday, April 7, 2019
Phoenix, LondonMaking a song and dance of how Newfoundland took in thousands of diverted passengers after the World Trade Center attack is fun up to a point
There’s a lot to love about Com…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMSunday, March 10, 2019
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse; Bridge; Royal Court, LondonAdjoa Andoh leads a powerfully resonant Richard II; Harriet Lane’s bestseller thrills less on stage; and jolts mix with jollity in a wom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, September 6, 2018
Why was Ben Okri so keen to adapt L’Étranger, Albert Camus’s dark novel about the killing of an Arab, for the stage? He talks about his battle with the French writer’s daughter, his d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMFriday, June 22, 2018
Barbican, LondonThe 1971 debate on feminism is deconstructed in an almost pitch-perfect Wooster Group productionOn 30 April 1971, Norman Mailer squared up to feminism in a public debate at N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMMonday, May 28, 2018
The Swan Hotel, Hay-on-WyeOwen Sheers’ evocative one-hander paints a fascinating picture of Keith Douglas and places his breathtaking prose centre-stageSince playing Wilfred Owen in a 20th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24AMTuesday, May 15, 2018
From the RSC to the ROH, Britain’s most prestigious arts institutions are all by royal appointment. But as Prince Harry marries Meghan Markle, is it goodbye Royal Variety Show and hello Ro…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36PMFriday, April 20, 2018
The Other Palace, LondonThe showbiz veteran recovers from a shaky start to deliver a heartrending solo cabaret that melds the personal and politicalNever has a show been more aptly named. Ka…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, March 1, 2018
Barbican, LondonThe history of eastern Europe weighs heavily in this period piece in which three old Jewish men rage against life and GodA stonecutter, a water carrier and a bankrupt grocer …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:11AMSunday, December 31, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonBristol OId Vic’s bewitching musical adaptation of Victor Hugo’s L’Homme qui rit makes a witty West End transferVictor Hugo was one of the great myth-makers of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMPark theatre, LondonJethro Compton’s take on Jack London’s fable conjures up the snowswept Yukon but fails to focus on the central relationship between girl and wolfAn improvisation on J…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMSunday, December 17, 2017
The Site, Royal Court, LondonVictims, cops and robbers all come out to play in Julia Jarcho’s thrilling, chilling three-handerAround the side of the Royal Court, through a yard filled with…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMSunday, December 3, 2017
Will Eno offers a telling vision of suburban horror as a nuclear family goes criticalWill Eno’s bleakly comic reflection on the nuclear family, The Open House, is set in the impeccably bei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMThis collaboration with writers from Syria and Lebanon offers no glib solutions to atrocities, and little hope eitherFathers are having a hard time of it at the Royal Court, where a generati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMOld Vic, LondonRhys Ifans stars in a joyous, psychoanalytical reading of Dickens that celebrates the redeeming power of theatreSince its publication as a novella in 1843, Charles Dickens’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AMTuesday, November 28, 2017
Denise Deegan had a West End hit with her parody of 1920s boarding-school novels. Now, Paulette Randall is staging an age-blind revival with a crack cast of actors. They share their teenage …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, October 5, 2017
Like Kate Tempest and Inua Ellams, the Nigerian-born performer is breaking new ground with Coat, his tale of two cultures, told while he cooks up a stew on stage‘It’s amazing how not-so-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
The star of Jez Butterworth’s acclaimed play grew up thinking her uncle had died in a car crash. Then one day she was told the truth: he had been ‘disappeared’ by the IRAOn New Year’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:05AMMonday, May 22, 2017
From Miller’s Crossing to Fifty Shades of Grey, Marcia Gay Harden has always played hard-boiled women. Her UK stage debut, in Sweet Bird of Youth, is no exceptionMarcia Gay Harden is a for…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06AMTuesday, August 12, 2014
Edinburgh international book festivalChimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Kamila Shamsie and other authors push the theatrical boundaries of narrative Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMSunday, March 3, 2013
Dunstan Playhouse, AdelaideAll over Adelaide whispered half-conversations have been taking place: how did you … ? What was it … ? So strong was the consensus against revealing what happ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16PMFriday, March 1, 2013
Norwood Concert Hall, Adelaide FestivalHow do you dramatise an event so indescribably terrible as losing both legs in an underground bomb attack? In telling the story of Gill Hicks, an Austr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:02AMThursday, January 24, 2013
The RSC is set to stage Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. But who should play the ruthless master politician at the novels' core?So the deal is done and the Cromwellian bandwagon has embark…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AM 
