Monday, November 16, 2015
There's more to Warren Mitchell than meets the eye, Lyn Gardner discovers.Warren Mitchell has made a career out of playing miserable old gits. Most famously there was racist bigot Alf Garne…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33AMBen-Hur with real sea battles, a children’s magic show gone wrong and more … here are the new shows opening and touring this weekIt’s your last chance for the strange and compelling Po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:56AMFriday, November 13, 2015
Trafalgar Studios, LondonJames Fritz confirms himself as a writer going places in this fascinatingly slippery play in which moral certainties collapse and relationships unravelJames Fritz ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:28AMThursday, November 12, 2015
Above the Arts, London The late Snoo Wilson let his imagination run wild in this rough and ready absurdist delve into the brilliant mind of the troubled codebreakerPlaywright Snoo Wilson had…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:22AMICT’s extraordinary Brainstorm, available on BBC iPlayer from Sunday, is part of a wave of shows in which teenagers are emerging as fully fledged artistsAt 9pm on Sunday 15 November, BBC F…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:09AMTuesday, November 10, 2015
Young Vic, LondonThe role of women in the opposition to the Belarus dictatorship is explored through the stories of three real-life political prisonersIn the work of Belarus Free Theatre the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMCaledonian Park, London"Today's the day," whispers a woman urgently. "We're building a new city. Follow the path." We do as we are told. A woman irons in a tree, a man pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:10AMMonday, November 9, 2015
Inextinguishable Fire, performed at the National Theatre as part of Spill festival, takes on the mantle of every violent act you have ever heard aboutOn Sunday evening, the Spill festival en…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:39AMSouthbank Centre, LondonLucy Bell’s two-hander about the pressures of being a parent with a drug habit is cunningly constructed and gloriously sungHannah (Kathleen Fitzpatrick-Milton) and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMThe Just Like a Woman season begins at Chelsea theatre, Radar festival starts at the Bush and Barney Norris’s Eventide is in BristolThe TEAM’s RoosevElvis continues to delight at the Roy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19AMFriday, November 6, 2015
Roundhouse, LondonA group of young people, neuroscientists and psychologists endeavour to resolve the age-old conundrum – with the help of a bacon sandwichFourteen-year-old Eden has been t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:43AMThursday, November 5, 2015
Park theatre, London George Brant’s hit US play gets an expressive, stylish revival incorporating British Sign Language, spoken word and visual storytellingGeorge Brant’s play about a fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMWednesday, November 4, 2015
It’s time for theatres to ask some hard questions about their impact on people who have never even seen one of their showsSome years ago I left the National Theatre having seen Fiona Shaw …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMTheatre 503, LondonJon Brittain’s play about identity politics and individuality is sharply observant yet gets a little shoutyRotterdam is a port city, a place people pass through, but Ali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AMTuesday, November 3, 2015
The Yard, London Pamela Carter’s thrilling drama follows the basic training of a bunch of army recruits who have no one to fight but themselves and each other What does it feel like to be …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:21AMMonday, November 2, 2015
Soho theatre, LondonRita Kalnejais’s startling, very funny interspecies romance features a grieving vixen, a fatalistic mole and some hilarious chickensThere are no fleas on the Australian…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMThe tabloids may be astonished by some of the offerings in this year’s Spill festival, such as Jackson’s Site, but they play on the possibility of art as a transforming experienceAnyone …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AMTop London productions such as Oresteia and Measure for Measure are coming to a close, but nationwide festivals like Emerge and Chrysalis are just beginningStaging a Revolution celebrates th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10AMThursday, October 29, 2015
The Pit, Barbican, LondonKaren Finley is like a medium, raising the 1980s ghosts of Aids and homophobia in a piece that seethes with angerIt is probably hard for those raised in an era of ci…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AMTuesday, October 27, 2015
Royal Court, London The TEAM’s two-hander takes a trip to Graceland with Elvis and Teddy Roosevelt in this ebullient dissection of gender identity and the American dreamFor a decade New Yo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMIn productions like Can I Start Again Please and Grounded, sign language is thrillingly folded into speech – but more needs to be done to encourage these hybridsFourteen years ago I went t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMMonday, October 26, 2015
Nuffield theatre, Southampton Design for Ultz turns Tennessee Williams’s memory play into a film being directed in the mind’s eye of its main character. But that leaves the audience at a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMLegendary US performance artist Karen Finley opens the Spill festival in London, Alistair McDowell’s creepy Pomona hits Manchester, and Dirty Protest are on tour in Wales Continue reading…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40AMSunday, October 25, 2015
National Theatre (temporary space), LondonBijan Sheibani’s production deflates the comedy’s emotional clout and sells its young audiences short, despite some engaging performancesRecent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:10PMThursday, October 22, 2015
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonPatrick Hamilton’s atmospheric melodrama, revived by Lucy Bailey, is creaky old tosh but hugely entertainingTara Fitzgerald may be the star of Lucy Bailey’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:40AMWednesday, October 21, 2015
A light touch and generous manner from the staff can turn an evening from good to great, affecting the way you feel about the show – and about returning to the venueWhen Scotland’s Grid …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PMCurve theatre, Leicester Tennessee Williams’s drama of faded dreams is told with a youthful cast, including Dakota Blue Richards. It’s just a shame you can’t hear them“I don’t want…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMPolka theatre, LondonParents and tiny tyrants alike will enjoy Theatre-Rites’ puppet show about a babe in the woodsIt takes real maturity and confidence to make a show like Theatre-Rites�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMTuesday, October 20, 2015
Soho theatre, LondonTanya Moodie impresses as society’s outsider – ignored by individuals, failed by institutions – in a quintet of monologuesJoanne is the young woman you glimpse slee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AMMonday, October 19, 2015
Regional theatres will thrive when they are democratic open spaces, where communities gather to share ideas about the lives they lead and aspire to“Money’s nice, but connections and conv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMWatford Palace theatreUnlovely Alan comes up against his Indian heritage in Neil D’Souza’s play, but even a magical realist tiger can’t keep all these big ideas in focusWhen middle-age…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AM 
