Friday, December 3, 2010
It's battle of the pantos this week, but if you're looking for something darker, head down into the Old Vic TunnelsIt's a busy old week, not least in the seasonal shows department. Hackney E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:52AMThursday, December 2, 2010
BAC, LondonMary Norton's much-loved novel The Borrowers, about the small people who live under the floorboards in the homes of "human beans" and "borrow" whatever they need, is the inspirati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMWednesday, December 1, 2010
Birmingham RepHearty but a little bit stodgy, playwright Garry Lyons and composer Tim Sutton's ambitious musical never quite persuades that this Edwardian tale is in need of 23 songs. With i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:29PMAward-winning shows like You Me Bum Bum Train don't arrive fully formed, but require time and money to developIt's good to see a piece of non-traditional theatre triumph in the London Evenin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01AMSunday, November 28, 2010
Arcola, LondonIdiosyncratic, defiant and distinctive are all words that apply to this agit-prop musical, and they might also be used to describe the Arcola and director Mehmet Ergen, who sta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMFriday, November 26, 2010
New End, LondonThe week draws to a close with the earliest significant snow for some years, and the first Christmas turkey, appropriately American, crash-landing in Hampstead on Thanksgiving…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:15PMWith the panto period yet to kick off, there's a Scottish invasion in London and plenty of non-Christmas-related shows elsewhereIf I were you, I'd go to Bristol this week for the brilliant I…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:25AMThursday, November 25, 2010
Theatre503, LondonTheatre503's Coalition season brings together 10 playwrights with other artists – among them musicians, choreographers, dancers and illustrators – in a programme of wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:16PMWednesday, November 24, 2010
Union, LondonBrought to you by the same team who created the award winning, all-male The Pirates of Penzance, this absurdly silly but sweetly touching version of Iolanthe is a comic pleasure…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:30PMMonday, November 22, 2010
Roundhouse Studio, LondonPhilip Osment's brave, funny and helter skelter of a play, Inside, offers a glimpse of young men in prison, all of them fathers. Cleverly staged by Osment and his co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMSunday, November 21, 2010
Darlington Arts CentreBreaking the unwritten rule that theatre for the over-sevens has to send young audiences out on an upbeat note, Noël Greig's final play is an engaging and often dark p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMFriday, November 19, 2010
Print Room, LondonLike an overripe cheese that's been left out too long, Pier Paolo Pasolini's play about a father's obsession with his teenage son's penis is a maggoty old thing, writhing w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:59PMIt's last-chance week for a string of excellent productions, from Blasted to Punk Rocks. Bring on the Christmas season!There's plenty to see this week, though not much that's brand new. Neve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMThursday, November 18, 2010
Royal Exchange, ManchesterDon't mess with the gods: good advice, seldom heeded by humans in Greek tragedy. Enter Pentheus, King of Thebes, who laughs when his cousin Dionysus returns home wi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PMWednesday, November 17, 2010
Gate, LondonThings are looking good for banker Joseph K. A promotion is in the offing and he's in control of his life. But on his 30th birthday, a takeaway order of sushi arrives with two me…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:45PMTuesday, November 16, 2010
Drum, PlymouthImagine you could see the world afresh through the eyes of someone else, perhaps someone from another century or a faraway place. Anton Chekhov, in Dan Rebellato's sharply sati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMSlashing the Darlington arts budget will not only hit culture, but hurt wider society – especially when it comes to young peopleLast Thursday I had the rare pleasure of meeting a happy tax…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMMonday, November 15, 2010
For the Best, an award-winning play created by kidney dialysis patients couldn't be more poignant, finds Lyn GardnerOn the fourth floor of the landmark Gostin Building on Liverpool's Hanover…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:00PMSunday, November 14, 2010
Riverfront, Newport"A great big, sad, beautiful joke," was how Welsh writer Gwyn Thomas viewed Valleys' life, and it's exactly what Told by an Idiot deliver in this theatrical patchwork quil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:01PMFriday, November 12, 2010
From Euripides in Manchester to Mark Storor on Merseyside, the north-west is leading the build-up to the Christmas show seasonTheatre seems to be taking a deep breath this week and next befo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:21PMThursday, November 11, 2010
Nottingham PlayhouseEsme is a middle-aged West End actor, and a successful one. She has long left the classics behind and makes a nice living starring in boulevard comedies. Despite the earl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:30PMTuesday, July 6, 2010
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Young Vic, London"Something big and meaningful condensed into small space," is how the coxswain describes a haiku towards the end of Kursk, a remarkable piece of theatre inspired by the disa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:20PMSaturday, May 9, 2009
What makes an actor truly great? The actor's job is to bring a scripted character to life. RADA's Dee Cannon outlines 10 questions that must be addressed in order to create a fully-realised …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMMonday, February 16, 2009
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMThursday, April 17, 2008
Increasingly, the technology has become the show, rather than in service of the showBack in the 1980s as new technologies began to make their mark in theatre we still marvelled at West End s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMThursday, January 31, 2008
Plenty of plays have been set in hotels, and now Sarah Kane's Blasted is being staged in oneA couple of years ago, I stayed at the Adelphi hotel in Liverpool. The lifts were broken, and leav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AMTuesday, September 11, 2007
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Unicorn, LondonSam is a know-it-all teenager who dreams of the celebrity and big wage packets of professional football as he kicks a ball around the local park and boasts that he has been si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:17AMFriday, April 20, 2007
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