Wednesday, June 1, 2016
Sherman, CardiffPatrick Jones’s play is as messy as life can be, but its honest, unsentimental approach and terrific cast ensure it strikes directly at the heartTo be honest, Patrick Jones…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20AMTuesday, May 31, 2016
Young Vic, LondonTwo outwardly confident school friends share a secret in Charlene James’s drama exploring the betrayal involved in UK female genital mutilationIt all begins so innocently …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AMMonday, May 30, 2016
Joseph Fiennes is in Adrian Noble’s Rattigan revival in Chichester, the Verbatim piece Chilcot opens at Battersea Arts Centre and you can go Into the Woods at the West Yorkshire Playhouse …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:21AMFriday, May 27, 2016
Barbican, LondonMitchell, playwright Duncan Macmillan, video artist Leo Warner and a band of onstage camera operators deliver a close-up view of wartime dilemmasIn The Forbidden Zone, the wo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:44AMLes Blancs | Hamlet | The James Plays | A Midsummer Night’s Dream | Funny GirlLorraine Hansberry is best known for her play A Raisin In The Sun and for inspiring Nina Simone’s To Be Youn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:37AMThursday, May 26, 2016
Arcola, LondonMike Poulton’s play evokes a postwar Britain of curtain-twitching homophobia as it explores Rattigan’s relationships through references to The Deep Blue SeaThe actor Kenny …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AMIn Lola Arias’s new theatre piece, those who fought on opposing sides of the conflict explore their memories togetherLater this week, Lou Armour, a special needs teacher, and Gabriel Sagas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:48AMPleasance Courtyard, EdinburghJess Thom's condition lends her show an absurdist edge Samuel Beckett would be proud of in an hour that demonstrates unpredictability can be a real spur for cre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:34AMWednesday, May 25, 2016
Royal and Derngate, NorthamptonThe singer’s life and death are recast as a Greek tragedy in a play that curiously neglects his influential musicOn 1 April, 1984, one day before his 45th bi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44AMTuesday, May 24, 2016
The plays of Ibsen and Shaw have extensive stage directions but are they a constraint to creativity or an invitation to imagine?At a recent workshop, as part of the excellent Mousetrap Theat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14PMShe’s a rapper, playwright, poet, novelist – and much more. In her restless, relentless creativity, this unique talent hops freely from one artform to anotherKate Tempest was in Australi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PMMonday, May 23, 2016
Ophelias Zimmer presents Hamlet from the perspective of its tragic heroine. There are plenty of other supporting characters I’d like to know more aboutIt’s said that Shakespeare wrote Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:30PMCamden People’s theatre, LondonWill Adamsdale, Lloyd Hutchinson and Brian Logan find themselves trapped inside a gag in a piece that pays homage to the theatrical imaginationThe way humour…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01AMCurious Directive combine science and storytelling in Norwich, Katie Mitchell and Duncan Macmillan collaborate at the Barbican, and the world premiere of Edward Bond’s Dea is in SuttonMade…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:45AMSunday, May 22, 2016
Regent’s Park Open Air theatreAn elephant which saves a girl from the 2004 tsunami is the real draw – alongside orangutans and the wave itself – of Samuel Adamson’s spectacleIf you h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMFriday, May 20, 2016
Wrecking Ball | Tonight I’m Gonna Be The New Me | Boy | People, Places And Things | Matilda The Musical Action Hero’s latest show is a clever and coolly manipulative look at what is real…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:46AMThursday, May 19, 2016
The Regional Theatre Young Director Scheme has played a role in growing the careers of many established artistic directors. Now, the scheme is focusing on how its participants can stay embed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:08PMRose theatre, KingstonDespite terrific performances from Jamie Ballard as the sad, silly king and Maggie Steed as his mother, this production feels dated and drawn outKing John is the 36th o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMWednesday, May 18, 2016
Royal Court, LondonMitchell, Alice Birch and Chloe Lamford deliver a forensic study of an imprisoned Ophelia, stalked by the Prince of DenmarkVirginia Woolf knew the importance of having a r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04AMTuesday, May 17, 2016
Sherman Cymru, CardiffKatherine Chandler’s award-winning play about two girls living in a care home takes flight under the superb direction of Rachel O’RiordanAva (Georgia Henshaw) has b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09PMMonday, May 16, 2016
Battersea Arts Centre, LondonShannon Yee’s clever and moving story of her rocky road to recovery from a rare infection places the audience right in the wardIn 2008, the playwright Shannon …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMLeicester’s victorious tour bus will be greeted by jubilant football fans as it passes the Curve theatre, which has also earned the pride and passion of locals“Why can’t theatre be mor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48AMA show featuring three and a half tonnes of coal opens in Cardiff, Katie Mitchell frees Ophelia from Hamlet at the Royal Court, and Daniel Evans makes his directorial swansong in SheffieldWi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40AMFriday, May 13, 2016
O No! | King Lear | Our Ladies Of Perpetual Succour | The Strange Undoing Of Prudencia Hart | Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom If you have an aversion to audience participation and theatre about t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:51AMThursday, May 12, 2016
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 11:28PMSome audience members seem to think their ticket guarantees an autograph too, but actors are well within their rights to miss the late-evening salutationsWhen the Duke of York’s theatre fl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMWyndham’s theatre, London Mark Strong, Nicola Walker and Phoebe Fox star in a menacing, meticulously conceived production. It’s like watching a runaway train hurtle towards youThere have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:16AMWednesday, May 11, 2016
Branagh channels Olivier, Isabelle Huppert lusts after her stepson and Ralph Fiennes gets the royal hump. Meanwhile there’s magic in the air as Harry Potter grows up – and Groundhog Day …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonRice’s opening production as artistic director is a modern mash-up, but while the gags are fast and furious, it never fully taps into a sense of the enchanted�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMBaker’s heartbreaking Pulitzer-winner, is set in a doomed picturehouse but it’s really about how nothing beats the live theatrical experienceSome months ago, a friend and I walked into t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:52AMTuesday, May 10, 2016
A handful of current shows, including The Flick at the National Theatre, ditch the traditional sense of narrative drive but still manage to draw you in“Nothing happens. Twice.” That was …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AM 
