Wednesday, October 26, 2011
New Diorama, LondonWhy would a young Swedish woman, Susanne (Jessica Claire), suddenly abandon her husband and one-year-old child, catch a flight to Israel and turn up at the offices of the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:50AMTuesday, October 25, 2011
Crucible Studio, SheffieldM and W – thirtysomething, educated, thoughtful and a little neurotic – are queuing at Ikea when he suggests they have a baby. She's so caught off guard – "It…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:10PMMonday, October 24, 2011
Rudry Parish Hall, WalesWith a winning disregard for elitism, "a good night out" was what John McGrath, the legendary founder of the 7:84 theatre company, aimed to give audiences – and his…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:35PMFriday, October 21, 2011
The next seven days could add up to any number of great new plays, from Mike Bartlett's 13 to Abi Morgan's 27, not forgetting Blake Morrison's We Are Three SistersClearly playwrights have a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:08PMThursday, October 20, 2011
Curve, LeicesterEllen Cairns's design is the real star of this revival of the well-worn but still serviceable stage adaptation of Ken Kesey's 1962 novel. The perspective on the day room in t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMWednesday, October 19, 2011
Ustinov, BathIphigenia is not a happy young woman. Who can blame her? Her father, the great hero Agamemnon, was prepared to sacrifice her to the gods to ensure a fair wind for his Troy-bound…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTuesday, October 18, 2011
Royal Exchange, ManchesterThe road to Auschwitz is paved with good intentions for John Halder. A university professor, he teaches Faust in Germany during Hitler's rise. He's a good father, a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMLee Hall's play about the miners who discovered the power of painting is as powerful as ever – but I doubt it could happen nowI saw Lee Hall's The Pitmen Painters again last week, and alth…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMMonday, October 17, 2011
Victoria & Albert Museum, LondonFrom the moment perky flight attendant, Miss Pat, tells us to "fasten your shackles" and insists that there must be "no drumming", it's clear it's going to be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMSunday, October 16, 2011
Soho theatre, LondonCasey (Katy Stephens) is a hard-nosed football agent who has managed to put together a deal to save the East End club she loves. She is smart enough to kno…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:30PMFriday, October 14, 2011
From the opening of the new Bush Theatre in London to Glasgow's Glasgay! festival, it's an exciting week aheadLondonThere's plenty to take your pick from over the coming week. If you didn't …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:02PMThursday, October 13, 2011
Ustinov, BathDon Juan is in love with Leonor, but their midnight trysts are discovered by her jealous sister, Beatriz. So Don Juan calls on the help of his love-'em-and-leave-'em friend, Don…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:17PMWednesday, October 12, 2011
Bradbury Studios, LondonMad has always been the word for performance artist Bobby Baker, and she would be the first to say it – and she has, in a string of shows as well as the extraordina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMTuesday, October 11, 2011
Duke of York's, LondonDoes London need another jukebox bio musical? No, and it doesn't get one either in this intelligent, multilayered and often touching account of the Beatles' early days …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:08PMMonday, October 10, 2011
The Irish capital has seen an explosion in edgy, new work – much of it inspired by the country's financial and spiritual tremorsOn Saturday, writing in the Irish Times, Fintan O'Toole sugg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:29AMGate theatre, DublinFor young Hanni, living in Ireland in the 1950s, childhood is more confusing than usual. His mother is German, his father Irish; he wears lederhosen, topped with an Aran …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AMSunday, October 9, 2011
Abbey, DublinJuno at the Abbey should be quite something. It was at the old Abbey that the second play in Sean O'Casey's Dublin trilogy premiered in 1924. It was a contemporary play respondi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMFriday, October 7, 2011
Peacock, DublinMarina Carr's plays are often dark and boggy, but this long evening attempts to shine a light on the life – though rather less the work – of Chekhov. He is played by Patri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMRose, KingstonWithout the actor, director and playwright Harley Granville-Barker we would not have today's theatre. He was a natural revolutionary who ran against the prevailing theatrical t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMSaved, Uprising and Blackbirds lead a busy week of theatre in London, while Bath, Bristol and Glasgow are no slouches eitherThe sun may have gone but theatre continues to shine, particularly…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:09PMThursday, October 6, 2011
Birmingham Old Rep / Rose, KingstonTo see one production of Oscar Wilde's most famous play may be regarded as excellent fortune; two in less than a week could be rather too much of a good th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:27PMWednesday, October 5, 2011
Lowry, SalfordThe Library theatre seems to be enjoying a new lease of artistic life since its enforced departure from its old premises, and Ayub Khan-Din's story of a dysfunctional family is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTuesday, October 4, 2011
Drum, PlymouthIt's not often that you hear mass sobbing in the theatre, but it's all sniffles during the latter stages of this new Frantic Assembly show. It's hardly surprising: Abi Morgan's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:00PMTheatre Royal, BathBig issues require big theatrical responses, and our plundering of the planet receives an epic treatment from playwright Mike Bartlett and an audacious production from dir…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:14AMMonday, October 3, 2011
Why is National Theatre Wales running a scheme to nurture new critical voices? Because theatre cannot flourish without critics – and vice versaTheatre criticism does not exist in a vacuum.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMFriday, September 30, 2011
Birmingham RepTom Stoppard's 1974 play is rarely revived, and it's not hard to see why. It's complicated – very. Mind you, it's as sharp as a fop's trouser crease and self-consciously cuck…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PMA spate of big openings might be grabbing the headlines but a number of smaller shows deserve your attention this weekConor McPherson's The Veil at the National, Marc Warren in Cool Hand Luk…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:50PMThursday, September 29, 2011
Greenwich theatre, LondonA romantic hero and a ge ntleman of the highway who danced with his victims in the moonlight? Or a petty thief and horse-stealer who raped and tortured his way acros…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:10PMWednesday, September 28, 2011
Bristol Old Vic StudioNatalie McGrath's three-hander, set in a dead-end seaside town in the late 1980s, begins with a great crash of waves and explodes in a dazzling firework shower of words…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMTuesday, September 27, 2011
Theatres are rushing to collaborate with new artists, but relationships need to be on an equal footing if they are to lastAnyone with half an eye on theatre over recent months will have noti…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMMonday, September 26, 2011
Point, EastleighWhen Jane and Victoria move into the seaside home on the Norfolk coast they intend to run as a B&B, the sea view is obscured by a row of bungalows. They joke how wonderful it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:57PM 
