Monday, January 6, 2020
In 2019, Told by an Idiot launched the Naomi Wilkinson Award for female stage designers. Winner Ioana Curelea tells Kate Wyver about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMFriday, December 13, 2019
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonA missed opportunity to satirise modern politics, this show resorts to panto for its obvious parodies and easy laughs
We get it: dictators are bad. Roughly assimi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMSoho theatre, LondonEll Potter and Mary Higgins radically push on from previous show Hotter, in this fantastic, sexy, athletic examination of male identity
Hilarious, sincere, sexy and bruta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMTuesday, December 10, 2019
New Diorama theatre, LondonBreach Theatre’s hilariously heretical satire of medieval mystery plays is a celebration of queer voices and a fine alternative Christmas show
Breach Theatre wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMFriday, November 29, 2019
Secret location, LondonIn this immersive show we are promised a globetrotting night of drugs and sex … but are left loitering in a living room
The best immersive theatre makes its audience…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMThursday, November 28, 2019
Pleasance theatre, LondonGroan-worthily unfunny jokes litter this blooper reel of a show about the last people left on Earth
The second show of Sink the Pink’s queer Christmas trilogy is m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMTuesday, November 26, 2019
Dominion theatre, LondonWith firecracker performance and singalong sounds, this version of the Bing Crosby classic glistens with sexy razzmatazz, but tenderness lies beneath the shiny surfac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, November 22, 2019
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe winter of our discontent gets an ungrounded production that even scene-stealing performances by the Globe ensemble can’t make glorious
Fickle, brittle he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMMonday, November 18, 2019
Thursford Collection, NorfolkA fever-dream of outrageous talent and suffocating joy, this extravaganza must be seen to be believed, albeit just the once
I close my eyes and can see only sequ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMTuesday, November 12, 2019
Transgressive, intimidating and smeared with ketchup, the performer loves to give audiences more than they’ve bargained for – from an X-rated Jesus to a bare Boudicca
Lucy McCormick pull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMMonday, November 11, 2019
Pleasance, LondonTheir tongues firmly in their cheeks, Figs in Wigs’ boisterous parody ranges from pun-filled comedy skits to cocktail-making in hazmat suits
You probably won’t remember…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, November 5, 2019
Union theatre, LondonCliche-drenched lyrics and a lightweight storyline put a cork in the emotional reckoning at this unremarkable story’s heart
Empty bottles dangle from the ceiling in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMThursday, October 31, 2019
Boulevard theatre, LondonOn a set that looks like an abandoned attic, four characters sing of love, loss and bears, in Dave Malloy’s unearthly song cycle
Working its way through myth, magi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMWednesday, October 30, 2019
The Kiln, LondonFor all its good intentions, Anupama Chandrasekhar’s play about patriarchal violence against women in India relies too heavily on shock
I want to shed my skin and scoop out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMMonday, October 28, 2019
Tobacco Factory, BristolA party feel in the first half of Elizabeth Freestone’s production slumps like a hangover when Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Geoffrey Lumb are off-stage
Dorothea Myer-B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMThursday, October 24, 2019
Bristol Old VicA strong poetic lead and fine support can’t make this meandering new adaptation anything more than a slog
‘That was mercifully short,” one actor jokingly sneers, after t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Leeds PlayhouseThe murderer is never named in Charley Miles’s furious, funny play about women in Leeds between 1975-80
With a panoramic sense of empathy, Charley Miles’ heated play sees …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMMonday, October 14, 2019
Southbank Centre, LondonOur era of buffoonish leadership is brilliantly skewered in Forced Entertainment’s mimed maelstrom of aggression
Sweaty, sad and stupidly funny, Forced Entertainmen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSunday, October 6, 2019
New Oxford Street, LondonIn an elaborate game of hide and seek, you have to avoid the marauding undead – but the fear and the fun soon fizzle out
A hand grabs my ankle and a veiny arm slip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PMThursday, October 3, 2019
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonTalking over each other, getting the audience to choose the ending: Bert and Nasi’s new show may look scrappy but it’s highly relevant
Maybe it’s a state-o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
Crucible, SheffieldTobi Bamtefa gives a swaggering, thundering performance as the dictator Idi Amin, but this adaptation of Giles Foden’s novel is stodgy and plodding
Swaggering and lumber…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMSunday, September 22, 2019
Wiltons Music Hall, London The affecting tale of Jews escaping persecution to find new beginnings in Canada a century ago is a rollicking piece of folk music theatre
Old Stock is a pleasantl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Dominion theatre, LondonJay McGuiness and Kimberley Walsh have chemistry in the lead roles but this revival is flat and insipid, and the story’s sexual politics are still a problem
For a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMMonday, September 16, 2019
Surrey House, Goldsmiths College, LondonA two-night stay in a simulated care home, recreated with exceptional intricacy, probes the line between care and control
I urinate into the cup and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMFriday, September 6, 2019
Minerva theatre, ChichesterA woman’s withering agency is examined through nostalgia and regret, in Cordelia Lynn’s rewrite of the tragedy
Cordelia Lynn’s bleak, modern-day rewrite of H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PMWednesday, September 4, 2019
When the curtain falls on a marionette’s show, they’re put out to pasture, given a facelift – or turned into burglar deterrents
‘This thing is alive, this thing is alive, this thing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24AMThursday, August 29, 2019
Six years after its debut, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s monologue is back in the theatre after its tearaway success on TV. We sent three millennial critics to watch it
Related: Sexy, subversive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AMTuesday, August 27, 2019
The festival is over for another year but plenty of its theatre, comedy and dance hits have announced dates around the UK
CollapsibleBreffni Holahan gives a searing performance as Essie in M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AMTuesday, August 20, 2019
Underbelly Cowgate, EdinburghIn a thrilling piece of theatre, a grieving woman immerses herself in quotidian distractions oblivious to three dancers who invade her space
Complex, raw and ins…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMMonday, August 19, 2019
Summerhall, EdinburghBert and Nasi’s ramshackle duet explores the end of the world and of their relationship in tender, silly, heart-rending style
As doomsday draws near, this impossibly b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:36PMSunday, August 18, 2019
Assembly Roxy, EdinburghTeddy Lamb untangles the difficulties of relationships in a bold monologue that is bursting with love
The ache of lost time is contained in this delicate monologue gr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54PM 
