Saturday, October 18, 2014
Dukes, LancasterLove, war and video cameras fight it out in Imitating the Dogs multimedia adaptation of Hemingways novel Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, October 11, 2014
Sherman Cymru, CardiffDespite fresh and lively performances, period language and modern behaviour clash to mixed effect Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, October 4, 2014
Lantern, LiverpoolThis play about the 1972 building workers pay dispute uses music, poems, puppets and dialogues to re-examine the history of a so-called conspiracy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 27, 2014
Victoria Baths, ManchesterStaging Shakespeares tragedy in a swimming baths might have seemed like a good idea, but the production quickly gets into deep water Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMRoyal Lyceum, EdinburghDC Jacksons comedy thriller is lively, deadly, wordy and seriously out of puff by its disappointing ending Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, September 20, 2014
Emma Adamss play, drawn from the experiences of older people, makes ageing look scary but fun Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, September 13, 2014
Stephen Joseph, ScarboroughAlan Ayckbourns experimental playlets are moving and hilarious but their fragmentary nature often hobbles the drama Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 6, 2014
Viaduct, Halifax and touringThis production of Oliver Goldsmith's 1773 comedy is absurdly funny but they need to turn down the volume a touch Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, August 30, 2014
Royal Lyceum; The Hub; King's theatreTwo takes on war employ different media and disciplines to connect with the past, while a noir tale of corruption scuppers itself with technical trickery…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMChichester festival theatreRichard Bean's new account of the Bounty's mutineers is vivid but untidy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMSaturday, August 16, 2014
Theatre Royal, BathA fine cast rescues a melodramatic new adaptation of Thérèse Raquin Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMUstinov Studio, BathAn emotional struggle between three cousins has more to it than meets the eye Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, July 26, 2014
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughAlan Ayckbourn's tale of fiction coming to life makes an inspiring leap from page to stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, July 19, 2014
Williamson Park, LancasterHilltop, woodland and lake are the perfect setting for Zosia Ward's vivid retelling of multiple fairytalesHansel and Gretel may get top billing at the Dukes' annual…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 28, 2014
Everyman, Liverpool; Great Llancayo Upper Wood, MonmouthshireAn updating of The Beggar's Opera and a retelling of a first world war battle are undone by dramatic formOne of the glories of th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMMonday, June 23, 2014
Theatre by the Lake, KeswickBrendan Murray's tale of family reunion makes dramatic capital from the premise that blood ties are often a mixed blessingA small kitchen and a cluttered sitting-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
Warwick Arts Centre and touringA celebration of people who experience synesthesia has 'the qualities of a Beethoven late quartet'Sometimes there are conundrums (conundra?). I loved this new …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 24, 2014
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsPanned on its release in 1980, this comedy of working-class northern life remains unconvincingAlan Bennett's play about a family in an about to be demolished b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 17, 2014
Royal Lyceum, EdinburghDavid Haig's play about wartime meteorologists studying the weather for D-day is witty and affectingAn enormous chart dominates the makeshift weather centre (design by…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMTron, GlasgowTimberlake Wertenbaker's exploration of oppression is full of good intentions but short on craftThis year, Mayfesto examines colonialism through a mixture of performances readin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 10, 2014
Curve, LeicesterBuoyant performances if not Richard E Grant's hologram brighten a messy remake of a favourite Victorian classicYou wouldn't expect a 21st-century adaptation of a 19th-centu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 26, 2014
Tamsin Oglesby reworks a classic farce into a loosely connected sequence of gagsGeorges Feydeau (1862-1921) has been described as "perhaps the most brilliantly adroit of all devisers of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 5, 2014
Crucible, SheffieldBarry Hines's classic Barnsley story gets an impressive makeover as part of the Yorkshire festivalYorkshire festival 2014 celebrates the arrival of the Grand Départ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 22, 2014
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe language is sizzling and the performances scorching, yet Vivienne Franzmann's tale of two trapped sisters has fatal flaws in the scriptJoanna Scotcher's forcefu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:05PMSaturday, March 8, 2014
This storming new production of John Waters' musical comedy has audiences at Leicester's Curve battling to stay stillIt's Baltimore, 1962. Penny Pingleton's mother (Sorelle Marsh – all ang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, March 1, 2014
Anya Reiss overlooks the wider context in her vivid reimagining of Chekhov at the LowryAnton Chekhov's plays are sometimes treated with an over-earnestness that turns them into museum pieces…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMInnovative design and a ponderous script are at odds in The Believers at Plymouth's Theatre RoyalIf looks were everything, what a great production this would be. Jon Bauser is a super-whiz a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 22, 2014
New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Crucible, Sheffield; Lyttelton, LondonDramatic irony proves deeply affecting as the domestic and the epic meet in the lives of Lancashire folk in August 1914An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMYork Theatre Royal This gutsy production reminds us why, 30 years after the miners' strike, being poor in Britain is still the pits"Over the last 10 years this bloody government has systemat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 8, 2014
Nottingham PlayhouseSally Ann-Triplett's heartstopping Judy overcomes any script shortcomings in this tale of fan and heroineWhen you read a book, you see through the eyes of the author. Whe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 1, 2014
Kilmardinny House Arts Centre, Bearsden, GlasgowThis bitty co-production exploring what it means to be Scottish is a missed opportunityRantin, we are told in the course of the performance, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PM 
