Thursday, March 7, 2013
An event at the Young Vic examined the urgent need for people of East Asian heritage to become more visible in UK theatreWhen I started out as a theatre critic in the early 1980s, there were…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
Royal Court, LondonThere's no getting away from God or the Catholic church in Anna Wakulik's lively play: the whole theatre has been cleverly transformed into a church, complete with nave an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMAs Forced Entertainment prepares a longer, all-day-all-night version of its show at the Barbican, we look at what – in this age of short attention spans – makes durational theatre so sed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:14PMMonday, March 4, 2013
Butetown, CardiffThere are some places where you are acutely aware that you are walking over layers of human history. Butetown, close to Cardiff docks, is one of them, an area that has seen …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:41AMSunday, March 3, 2013
Theatre Royal, BathLenny Henry got away with murder playing Shakespeare's Othello, but he holds the stage as Troy Maxson, the grizzled anti-hero of August Wilson's 1987 drama about black Ame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMFriday, March 1, 2013
Royal Exchange, ManchesterBearing more than a passing resemblance to Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden, Janice Okoh's Bruntwood prize-winning play takes us to a flat on a south London estate wh…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:15PMNational Theatre Wales's first show of the year is the Somali poet-inspired De Gabay in Cardiff, plus Rachel Corrie in Edinburgh and Lenny Henry in BathScotland and Northern IrelandThe Seafa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMNational Theatre Wales's first show of the year is the Somali poet-inspired De Gabay in Cardiff, plus Rachel Corrie in Edinburgh and Lenny Henry in Bath Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMThursday, February 28, 2013
West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsHell isn't just other people: it's backstage in this new version of the story of the scholar who sold his soul to the devil. Here, the third and fourth acts of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:08AMAs London's Trafalgar Studios hosts James McAvoy playing Macbeth set in a futuristic Scotland, here are clips of some memorable productions, from Trevor Nunn at the RSC to BlackadderReading …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
New Vic, Newcastle under LymeThe facts are not in dispute. On 11 April 1955, Ruth Ellis shot and murdered her lover, David Blakely, outside a Hampstead pub. Ellis was found guilty and became…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMTron, Glasgow"How do they expect me to fight two wars at once?" asks Lily Litvak early in Peter Arnott's play. Not only is she the star pilot in a Red Army squadron of "lady bombers" facing …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PMOpen thread: A new ruling means that theatres have to be upfront about booking fees. But why should we pay them at all?Theatre-goers often put up with a great deal but they will forgive cram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Soho theatre, LondonCharlotte Josephine and Luke Barnes are two young writers who are going places. These monologues were both first seen at the Edinburgh fringe last summer, and while they …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40AMSunday, February 24, 2013
Every performer has a horror story about auditions – a bullying director, falling over, not having done their homework. But what's the secret of nailing that part?Last September, Alic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMFriday, February 22, 2013
DH Lawrence's The Daughter-in-Law sashays into Sheffield, The Book of Mormon previews in the West End and Bristol Old Vic stages a filthy puppet version of the DreamScotland and Northern Ire…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AMA new report shows that funding cuts are paralysing theatre programming and scuppering tours, which in turn could have a devastating effect on TV, film and radioJack Bradley has seen the fut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:35AMThursday, February 21, 2013
Tobacco Factory, BristolRichard III should probably thank Shakespeare. The playwright may have destroyed his reputation but, in doing so, he ensured the last Plantagenet lived on in the popu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMWednesday, February 20, 2013
Southbank centre, LondonEveryone knows the Queen wears a crown. But did you know that she also has a pair of knickers for every occasion? There are knickers to wear while riding, knickers fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Sheffield LyceumScreen-to-stage adaptations are two a penny (and often worth even less), but Simon Beaufoy's play, inspired by his own screenplay for the 1997 movie about a group of unemploy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMMonday, February 18, 2013
Unicorn, LondonWe are always told that we should tell the truth – but then it didn't do Cordelia in King Lear much good. Fourteen-year-old Grace (Danusia Samal) lives near the Olympic Park…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:43PMNew faces in leading institutions are a welcome sight – but we might need to redefine what we mean by mainstreamAndrew Dickson's feature today about the new generation of directors leading…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMSunday, February 17, 2013
Tom Thumb theatre, MargateIf Nancy Dell'Olio's vagina got dressed up, it would wear Harry Winston diamonds. At least, it would according to Eve Ensler's show, inspired by interviews with hun…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44PMFriday, February 15, 2013
Rose, KingstonNoël Coward didn't just have a talent to amuse: he had a talent to shock. This 1924 play was the Look Back in Anger of its day, a drama that dismayed the upper classes who saw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMLenny Henry straddles Fences in Bath, the story of Ruth Ellis, the last woman to be hanged in Britain, comes to Newcastle-under-Lyme, and Mike Bartlett's Bull charges into SheffieldScotland …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMThursday, February 14, 2013
An increasing number of shows are dispensing with the traditional midway break. Can our brains, and bladders, cope?Few of the reviews for Robert Lepage's disappointing Playing Cards 1: Spade…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AMTheatre 503, LondonOrlaith, almost 14, singlehandedly looks after her dad, who hears voices. Sive cares alone for her bedbound, crippled mother. On a young carers' respite outing to the seas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:27AMWednesday, February 13, 2013
Sheffield CrucibleNasty, brutish and short, Mike Bartlett's 55-minute three-hander, playing in the Crucible's studio space, can be seen as a companion piece to his 2009 Royal Court play, Coc…
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