Monday, October 15, 2012
Noisy coughing and spluttering seems to be more prevalent in the theatre than at the cinema – but why?Coughing at the theatre is a year-round British sport. As the theatre critic James Aga…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:39AMFriday, October 12, 2012
Gate, Dublin"Is it really that interesting, the past?" demands a teenager in Declan Hughes' time-slip play, which is set over two summers in Dalkey, not far from Dublin. Sadly, the answer is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMDermot Bolger stages Ulysses in Glasgow, Hugh Hughes returns to his roots with Stories from an Invisible Town, and there's European theatre galore in the Best of BE festival in LondonSouthTr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMThursday, October 11, 2012
Violence at the theatre is often at its most unbearable when left to the imagination. Which shows have made you want to avert your eyes and scream 'stop!'?The terror season is upon us in Bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMWednesday, October 10, 2012
Savoy, LondonThe final 20 minutes of Rufus Norris's revamped revival of Cabaret are shockingly good. The campy glamour of Berlin's pre-war Kit-Kat Club is gradually stripped away, just as t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMMost souvenir programmes for shows are over-priced, ill-designed and uninformative vehicles for the selling of advertising space. What do you want from yours?What do you really want from a t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Young Vic, LondonHow do you like your blackbirds? Flambéed? Kurt does. This is a boy who has clearly never heard what happened to Hilaire Belloc's Matilda when she played with matches. Kurt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:49PMSolidly rooted and distinctive, this event is a chance for the Irish capital to have an important conversation with itself and the world. Which arts festivals do you reckon achieve success?I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMMonday, October 8, 2012
Project Arts Centre, DublinThis is a love letter from one Irish émigré to another. The writer is Emma Donoghue, author of the bestselling novel Room; the subject is Maeve Brennan, the tale…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:15PMSunday, October 7, 2012
Abbey, Dublin"All art is quite useless," is the first line of Neil Bartlett's arresting adaptation that offers up Oscar Wilde's 1891 novel as a play within a play, one that is a cross betwee…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMFriday, October 5, 2012
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens at West Yorkshire Playhouse, the Abbey theatre brings The Plough and the Stars to Birmingham, while Circa display absurdly good circus in WalesScotland, Northern …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMO'Reilly, DublinOver every Hamlet looms the shadow of the Hamlets who came before. Richard Burton played the Dane on Broadway in 1964, in a production directed by John Gielgud, one of the mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:32PMThursday, October 4, 2012
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonParting is such sweet sorrow for the teenage Romeo and Juliet. But what if the lovers don't die, and grow old together? Will youthful passion survive thickening…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PMAs a new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens in Leeds, we're inviting you to join our project and review the production. But there's no right or wrong approachThe first rule is that th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:34AMAs a new production of Cat on a Hot Tin Roof opens in Leeds, we're inviting you to join our project and review the production. But there's no right or wrong approach Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:34AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Southwark Playhouse, LondonDesigner Simon Daw transforms the space into an enchanting, Narnia-style winter wonderland, but there is nothing magical about the Ukrainian forest where a deaf Ta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33PMTuesday, October 2, 2012
Bristol Old Vic's partnership with South Africa's Handspring Puppet Company is an example of international collaboration that needs to happen more oftenAt last month's ITC conference, Simon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PMMonday, October 1, 2012
Bike Shed, Exeter"This is a crocodile eating my wife," observes the artist Roger Hilton, referring to one of his paintings. Apparently his wife can't see the resemblance at all, and not ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:16AMAudience members have been leaving previews of the National theatre's Scenes from an Execution at the interval. Smart or short-sighted?At an art gallery, you can simply skip the works that d…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:35AMFriday, September 28, 2012
Adrian Howells asks audiences to don swimsuits at Govanhill Baths and Frantic Assembly tour with Beautiful Burnout but the big opening is Simon Stephens' double bill in SalisburyScotland an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMDrum, PlymouthLight bulbs shimmer like stars across the ceiling of the Drum theatre for Rona Munro's play about American women in the early days of the space race. Inspired by the real-life …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMWednesday, September 26, 2012
Shoreditch Town Hall, LondonLove is hard and the future uncertain in these three plays by Nick Payne, Duncan Macmillan and Penelope Skinner, making up Paines Plough's Roundabout season.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:45PMTuesday, September 25, 2012
Arts Depot, LondonWhen children play, they do so with complete concentration and total abandon. The circus and theatre company Ockham's Razor play with that intensity in their latest show. N…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMRising ticket prices mean an evening out for two at a West End show in London is now beyond the reach of all but the affluentWhen the New Covent Garden theatre opened in 1808, following a di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:53AMMonday, September 24, 2012
Royal Exchange, ManchesterSophie Lancaster was a 20-year-old goth with dreadlocked hair. On 11 August 2007, she and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, went to talk to a group of teenagers in Stub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMRoyal Exchange, Manchester Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMRoyal Exchange, ManchesterSophie Lancaster was a 20-year-old goth with dreadlocked hair. On 11 August 2007, she and her boyfriend, Robert Maltby, went to talk to a group of teenagers in Stub…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:28PMSunday, September 23, 2012
O2 Arena, London"Father, forgive them, for they know not what they do," cries an agonised Jesus on the cross. But it's the good lord, otherwise known as composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, who sho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:43AMFriday, September 21, 2012
Liverpool PlayhouseWhen the cat's away, the mice certainly do play in Ben Jonson's 1610 comedy – a play that, like theatre itself, revels in lies and illusions. With his master, Lovewit, s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:31AMMike Bartlett's new version of Medea sets out on a nationwide tour from Glasgow and Tim Minchin plays Judas in Jesus Christ Superstar at the O2 in LondonScotland The big news this week is th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:57AMThursday, September 20, 2012
Gate, LondonWhen you try to make revolution, who do you do it for, if not for your children? Kenyatta and his wife Ashanti X were involved in America's black revolutionary movements in the 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AM 
