Thursday, 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 11:18AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsA full moon hangs like a teardrop over the junkyard home of Albert and Harold Steptoe in this Kneehigh show that does more than simply follow the current fashi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:18AMWednesday, September 19, 2012
Sheffield Crucible StudioBecky and John dream of the good life after a move to the country. But all is not pastoral bliss. Their new home has a plumbing problem, a fear of the future is play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:26PMA friendly welcome, well-run bar and clean loos can make a big difference to audiences – and we tend to love it when we find the artistic director is tearing ticketsYesterday I casually …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:14AMSunday, September 16, 2012
'It was an intense solo show and I was in the front row. Ten minutes in, she stopped the show, removed my notebook and pen, and carried on'I've had my embarrassments as a critic, when the fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40PMChichester Festival theatreAge may not wither her, but two years since Kim Catrall made her debut as the Queen of the Nile in Liverpool she arrives in Chichester with a new Antony in thrall:…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:46AMFriday, September 14, 2012
Rona Munro explores a giant leap for womankind, the Past Half Remembered returns to Cambridge fresh from NIE's festival tour to Japan and the Tiger Lillies tackle Hamlet at the SouthbankScot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:56AMThursday, September 13, 2012
Jacksons Lane, London"Once upon a time some were, and some were not," is a traditional Persian way of starting a story. The formula could not be more appropriate for this tale of the elusive…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMWednesday, September 12, 2012
Bristol Old VicAll the world's a stage in John O'Keeffe's good-natured 1791 comedy, which reopens Bristol's restored gem of a Georgian theatre. There are few plays that invoke the spirit of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:41AMUnion theatre, LondonWhen Zelda Sayre, who became the wife of F Scott Fitzgerald, was a girl, she called the fire brigade and told them a child was stranded on the roof of her house; she the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AMTuesday, September 11, 2012
Royal Court, LondonHistory and secret histories, the things that free us and the things that tie us to the past are all examined in this exhilarating, multi-layered new play from Tarell Alvi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMMonday, September 10, 2012
BAC, LondonThere's a moment halfway through Kate Tempest's spoken-word theatre show when the gloom intensifies and the vaulted ceiling is lit up by the glow from the streetlights outside, po…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMTime Out's recent coverage of a show produced by its 'event-producing arm' prompts the question: can a publication offer independent critical opinion when it is also behind a production?Ther…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMSunday, September 9, 2012
BAC, LondonDo you remember the feelings you had as a child when sitting in the back seat of the car at night, feeling a little drowsy? There would be the half-heard voices from a radio …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMFriday, September 7, 2012
Footsbarn's Indian Tempest comes to Cornwall, Polly Findlay directs The Country Wife in Manchester, and Golgol's A Government Inspector relocates to HarrogateNorthLee Mattinson's Chalet Line…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMThursday, September 6, 2012
Old Vic Tunnels, LondonMarisa Carnesky took audiences on an unsettling funfair ride in Carnesky's Ghost Train, and considered female bodies in the eerie Dystopian Wonders. Her latest piece, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:14PMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Jermyn Street, LondonCrystal (Charlotte McKinney) fantasises about Sean Connery appearing in her hotel room like a panther, and making love to her with consummate, silent skill. Instead she …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PMTuesday, September 4, 2012
Gilded Balloon, EdinburghEveryone loves a hellraiser – provided, of course, he's a man. Female hellraisers simply get dismissed as sad, bad and mad. Actor Oliver Reed, who wrestled naked w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMPleasance, EdinburghThe title is a mite deceptive because it is the male writer, not the female characters he created, who really dominates in this revival of Miriam Margolyes' Oli…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMWomen will take centre stage at the Donmar with Phyllida Lloyd's all-star, all-female revival of Julius Caesar – and not a moment too soonSarah Bernhardt played Hamlet, Fiona Shaw has pla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMMonday, September 3, 2012
Apollo, LondonDora has lost her teddy bear! There is no time for tears (and they wouldn't be possible anyway, because Dora's plastic moulded head is set in a permanent rictus) as Teddy and a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMWhen angels descended on London last night, they reminded us that large-scale spectacle can be a meaningful, magical and politically subversive art formIf the Olympics and Paralympics have g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:47PMPiccadilly CircusAngels paid London an unannounced visit last night. As dusk fell over the city, a pink flare was lit on top of the old HMV building, and a strange feathered creature ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMFriday, August 31, 2012
It's the last quiet week before theatres start to open their autumn seasons, but there are some potential gems – including things getting minty in Kendal ...ScotlandYou have until Saturday…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PMThursday, August 30, 2012
Shows such as Matilda and War Horse seem to make the case for subsidy. But if the money was used at the grassroots, how many more great shows might we produce?British arts funding is not a l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PMTheatre Royal, BathThe sublime and the ridiculous sit side by side in Adrian Noble's revival, a production modelled on one he staged at the Old Globe in San Diego in 2011. It's a mostly hand…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMWednesday, August 29, 2012
For years, a tick-box culture has paid lip service to diversity, but events at the Olympic Stadium could alter perceptions in a more meaningful and permanent wayTonight, something remarkable…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:11PMDuke of York's, LondonThe male mid-life crisis is a stage staple, yet the word menopause is barely whispered in the theatre – making April de Angelis's smart comedy a rare exception. At th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:29AMUnderbellyFans of the groundbreaking 1994 hit musical Rent, a show that reflected on the devastating effect of Aids in the New York artistic community, speaking directly to a generation…
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