Sunday, May 13, 2012
Does sleeping in mid-air make your dreams more exciting? Lyn Gardner joins a surreal project in the Norfolk woodsOn a rainy night last week, I climbed gingerly up a ladder and stepped …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:46PMFriday, May 11, 2012
With the Donmar also run by a woman for the first time, Featherstone's tenure may signal a change of cultureNews that Vicky Featherstone has been appointed to succeed Dominic Cooke as the ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:47PMCaledonian 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 plays a piano under a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PMDreamthinkspeak's 'meditation on Hamlet' triumphs at the Brighton festival and there's a last chance to see Swallows and Amazons in CardiffNorth and WalesPhilip Ridley's Tender Napalm heads …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:49AMTuesday, May 8, 2012
The public and creators are often at odds when picking favourite plays – plus the mobile phone menace reaches new heightsDoes parental love blind playwrights?For all writers the plays and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:31PMThe Cut, HalesworthA night of thoughtless petty criminal activity turns dark, then darker still, in this exhilarating three-hander focusing on three Essex teenagers hiding out from the polic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMArcola, LondonMartin really does seem like a nice young man; such a caring smile, and beautiful manners, too. "You speak so beautifully, Martin," says Amy Bates, "almost as if you were Patie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMSunday, May 6, 2012
Chariots of Fire is hitting the stage – with nine races on an indoor athletics track. Lyn Gardner finds out what happens when performers are pushed to the limitWhen actors James McArdle an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00PMGlobe, LondonA play of pulsating poetry and politics, performed in 1601 on the eve of the Earl of Essex's attempted coup against Elizabeth I to some of those actually involved in the plot, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMReview: The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs, The Cut, Halesworth"How often do we wish that more things were handmade?" asks American monologist Mike Daisey. He stares us in the eye. "Now…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:17AMFriday, May 4, 2012
From Manchester to Merthyr, there are festivals everywhere this week. Oh, and check out the Antarctic Zoo in EdinburghScotland and Northern IrelandThe new MAC in Belfast has a hit with Titan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:51AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Some works are of their time, some are for all time, and others find their time. It's not always obvious which are whichLooking back over old awards can be fascinating. The best new play of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMUnicorn, London★★★★/★★★Decisions, decisions! Hard to make, and their consequences often prove hard to take in these Sophocles plays reimagined for young audiences. In Nancy Har…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:02AMTuesday, May 1, 2012
Arcola, LondonIt is often in the tiniest moments that hope is found. At the end of Edward Bond's play Saved, a chair is picked up to be mended. In Manfred Karge's The Conquest of the South P…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:45AMMonday, April 30, 2012
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonRecognisably Gatsby, but certainly not great, this stage version of F Scott Fitzgerald's story aches with promise unfulfilled. The audience is encouraged to dress …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMPlaywrights were in the spotlight last week as Dennis Kelley and Philip Ridley encouraged them to tear up the conventional mapPassion, not pitchingLast week I took part in a roundtable discu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:31AMShakespeare's Globe, LondonGiven that it features so many productions, one of the best ways of coming to terms with the Globe to Globe season might be less in measuring the success of each i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AMSunday, April 29, 2012
How should I review improvised shows or those that evolve over time?Tonight at 8.10pm, on numerous stages across the country, exactly the same events will take place at the same time as they…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:47PMFriday, April 27, 2012
It's a busy week across the nation, with Mayfesto kicking off at the Tron and Andrew Hilton's Cherry Orchard continuing at the Tobacco FactoryScotlandI'm looking forward to reading the revie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMRoundhouse, LondonA great idea, but one that's largely thrown away, the final show in the Roundhouse's CircusFest2012 takes us back to the sideshows of the early 20th century. Between the 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30AMTuesday, April 24, 2012
Lyric Studio, LondonEdward Bond has seen the future and it isn't working. Perhaps it's no surprise that one of our greatest living playwrights is back in fashion. Bond, whose masterpiece Sav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PMThe best of the weekend's theatrical activity saw theatre walk tall on the streets of Liverpool, spread its wings on YouTube and go global for Shakespeare's birthdayYou'll never walk alone w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:41AMSunday, April 22, 2012
LiverpoolLondon had its Sultan's Elephant in 2006, and Liverpool had its spider, La Machine, in 2008. Merseyside has clearly developed a taste for street theatre and decided that outsized pu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50AMFriday, April 20, 2012
There's lots going on in theatre this week, from Royal de Luxe's giant puppets in Liverpool to a global, UK-wide Shakespeare-festScotlandThe big news here is Enquirer, the new verbatim prome…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMThursday, April 19, 2012
Drum, PlymouthThe world ends with a bang not a whimper in this latest show from the Belgian experimental theatremakers Ontroerend Goed, which succeeds in squeezing billions of years into jus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PMMonday, April 16, 2012
Matilda may have cleaned up commercially and at the Oliviers, but it would have been nowhere without subsidised theatre. Plus: a marathon year on stage, and acting as an Olympic sportTalent …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:50AMSunday, April 15, 2012
Cottesloe, LondonBrothers torn apart is becoming a recurrent theme in the work of Inua Ellams, the poet and spoken-theatre performer with a quiet, compelling presence and a tripping tongue. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMFriday, April 13, 2012
Plenty of action this week, from Bernstein's Wonderful Town in Salford to Stan's Café's Of All the People in All the World in StratfordNorthLots of action here this week, including the revi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AMWednesday, April 11, 2012
Soho Theatre, LondonThe title says it all. Cartoon de Salvo's latest show comes freshly minted every night using the long-form improvisation that the engaging company previously utilised in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMFriday, April 6, 2012
Lots to watch out for this week as Swallows and Amazons comes to Sheffield, and the CircusFest continues with Cirkus Cirkör at the Roundhouse in LondonScotlandNational Theatre of Scotland g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:59AMThursday, April 5, 2012
It's not enough for theatres to rely on the same old programming, even the same old buildings. Which is why what's happening at Exeter is so exciting"We're stuck with them," said a leading i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:41AM 
