Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Gender and racial diversity is growing in UK theatres – but disabled creatives are being left behind. We have to shift away from patronising box-tickingOver the last few months, it has fel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:15AMMonday, February 15, 2016
The Yard, LondonCressida Brown’s return to the venue of her 2006 verbatim piece, Home, is insightful, but has a whiff of cultural tourismTen years ago, Cressida Brown and Offstage Theatre …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:46AMKatie Mitchell directs Sarah Kane, Marianne Elliott’s staging of Husbands and Sons arrives in Manchester, and Jamie Lloyd revives The MaidsTorben Betts’s adaptation of the gangland class…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AMThursday, February 11, 2016
Liverpool EverymanFlaubert’s dry comic observations are replaced with full-on slapstick in a show that inserts dinosaur costumes and some awkward metatheatrical banter Julian Barnes descri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMWednesday, February 10, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThis confessional one-woman show offers increasingly uneasy laughs as the artist reveals more and yet less of herself The title of Ursula Martinez’s latest show is both…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AMTuesday, February 9, 2016
Finborough theatre, LondonA father and son face up to social change in Britain’s countryside in an uneven drama boasting two terrific performancesThere’s plenty to commend in Daniel Foxs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:26AMGetting hung up trying to decipher meaning is not always the most helpful way to look at theatre – you need to use your heart and guts as well as your head“What’s it all about?” crie…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMMonday, February 8, 2016
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAnger flares convincingly in Michael Longhurst’s production, but the confines of the Globe’s Jacobean space strain the comedyWith Constellations, a revival…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:51AMUS drag artist Taylor Mac, an empathy museum and a bedtime story are all part of the lineup for the 21st Lift. What can a programme dominated by work from other countries tell us about ourse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AMJim Cartwright’s sequel to Two premieres in Bolton, Mike Bartlett’s Cock is revived in Glasgow and Simon McBurney’s hallucinatory The Encounter is at the Barbican, LondonThe always int…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15AMFriday, February 5, 2016
Jacksons Lane, LondonSvalbard’s acrobatic exploration of relationships and identity has flashes of hallucinatory powerThe young, all-male international circus company Svalbard close this y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49AMThursday, February 4, 2016
Barbican, LondonSix performers struggle to stay upright on a suspended stage that spins and tilts wildly in this technically impressive mime performanceIn 2011, the Barbican hosted Mathurin …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26AMThe National Theatre’s literary department and Studio were recently combined to create an engine house for shows to suit stages of all sizes – and some of them are far from the South Ban…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:15AMWednesday, February 3, 2016
The artistic director’s second NT season welcomes devised pieces, experimentation and co-productions, and includes new shows by Bryony Kimmings and Lucy Kirkwood – plus a transfer of the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMJacksons Lane, LondonThis touching piece by mask theatre company Vamos takes the long view in its investigation of the unhappy plight of unmarried teenage mothers in the1960sAmanda Whittingt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AMTuesday, February 2, 2016
Sheffield Crucible StudioDawn Walton’s touring revival matches the loving detail of Lorraine Hansberry’s depiction of black family life in 1950s Chicago Almost 60 years since its origina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:39AMMonday, February 1, 2016
Soho theatre, LondonThis wordless show about bereavement has a debt to The Snowman and flips from sorrow to elation without taking us on a real emotional journeyIn Mary Poppins, Mr Banks rec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMUnicorn, LondonCan a hero take the bull by the horns? What does it mean to be a good child? This production has no fear of meaty issuesHands shoot up when King Minos of Crete, played by Rupe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMJames Graham considers Screaming Lord Sutch in Plymouth, police activity is scrutinised in Nottingham, and Shakespeare’s daughter goes to court in NorthamptonLuca Rutherford asks how hard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:21AMSunday, January 31, 2016
NT Temporary Space, LondonEffie, our Greek heroine via south Cardiff, finds a voice by raging against the sacrificial UK government in this blistering, big-hearted performance“I can’t sp…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AMFriday, January 29, 2016
Last night, Greg Sinclair and others were awarded £10,000 prizes at the Arts Foundation awards. That’s brilliant, but what we need is a funding system that puts bread on the table and sup…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:14AMTheatre 503, LondonThis play about a woman who starts an online porn channel raises key feminist issues but suffers from improbable scenarios and thinly drawn charactersNicola (Georgia Groom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:56AMThursday, January 28, 2016
Barbican, LondonThere is poignancy, darkness and powerful humanity in Circa’s extraordinary physical depiction of the struggles endured by displaced persons in search of safety When the al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:55PMWednesday, January 27, 2016
Leicester Square theatre, LondonMonty Python’s Terry Jones fails to get under the skin of the British comic known for his Round the Horne scriptsEven labours of love can be misguided, and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:19PMTristan Bates, LondonWhen Elisa and Jane were children, they were always on tour with their dad and his magic act. Big sister Elisa wanted to be the one to disappear, but it was Jane, his di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMThe extra funding and opportunities it offers are enticing, but the mainstream isn’t the place for everyone. Entering it often means diluting what made you radical or interesting in the fi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:58AMTuesday, January 26, 2016
Gulbenkian theatre, CanterburyMind the Gap theatre group joyously celebrate the triumphs of people who have rejected the stereotype of disabled livingEveryone has a story to tell, about a mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AMMonday, January 25, 2016
Tower of LondonA solo headphones show draws subtle parallels between the dirty tricks of the Elizabethan secret service and our own paranoid surveillance stateIf you’ve ever wanted to get …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMRalph Fiennes arrives at the Old Vic, Bristol sees A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing, new plays will emerge from Waterloo’s Vaults, and Manipulate festival brings physical theatre to AberdeenR…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:40AMSunday, January 24, 2016
Print Room, LondonPeter Shaffer’s shouty drama about a family on the edge has a terrific performance by Jason Merrells, but this production can’t hide the flaws of the work itselfWritten…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:15AMFriday, January 22, 2016
Lancaster ArtsVia video, sound design and a carriage that actually moves, Imitating the Dog’s latest production is alluring but doesn’t quite convinceChildren carry our hopes into the fu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AM 
