Wednesday, September 10, 2014
Alan Ayckbourn's latest work is less than the sum of its parts, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:54AMWednesday, August 27, 2014
Euripides's tragedy demands a killer central performance as the woman who murders her children to avenge her betrayal. Helen McCrory and Diana Rigg, who played the role 20 years apart, expla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMMonday, August 18, 2014
Breaking up is hard to do if you're part of a comedy group where the numbers no longer add up. Pappy's and the Birthday Girls relive the horrors of rejigging their lineups Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
In Jennifer Haley's play, adults adopt child avatars to enact fantasies of illicit sex raising issues around freedom of expression and the pernicious influence of explicit materialIn Jennif…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMFriday, July 18, 2014
Noel Coward's once-banned play about adulterous aristocrats is spoiled by an abrupt ending, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:36AMFriday, July 11, 2014
Robert Soans's religious drama is worth persevering with, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:36AMWednesday, July 9, 2014
It has giant inflatables, rubber-clad aerialists and a walk-through whale's stomach Living Structures' immersive homage to Moby-Dick, Leviathan, looks set to make a splashWhen Orson Welles …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:20AMFriday, July 4, 2014
Nick Payne's one-man play gives us death through an Instagram filter, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:55AMThe play inspired by the Anders Breivik mass shooting is mixing British, Norwegian and Austrian actors on stage to explore the forces of multicultural collision. Director Ramin Gray explains…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:23AMFriday, June 27, 2014
Alexander Zeldin's devised piece Beyond Caring explores the precarious existence of cleaners at a meat factoryYou've seen the stats: 2.7m jobs, 600,000 workers, on zero-hours contracts. Some…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:59AMThursday, June 19, 2014
This production lets Keith Waterhouse's iconic anti-hero, Billy Fisher, off the hook, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:42AMPromenade theatre often means little more than a shuffle, but a wave of walking-based productions are taking audiences, on foot, into unknown territoryWhen theatregoers get to their feet, it…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37AMWednesday, June 18, 2014
This production inside a dilapidated Manchester pub is too fierce to dismis, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 09:31AMThursday, June 5, 2014
This German production about inheritance and the demands of old age is tender but it veers towards sentimentality, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 11:32AMThursday, May 29, 2014
Leaving past controversies behind, Gupreet Kaur Bhatti's latest play is a beautifully nuanced, Indian family drama, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:24AMSunday, May 25, 2014
James Brining's production of Alan Bennett's Enjoy is a mongrel play, stitched together like Frankenstein's monster, but is smart too, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:47AMThursday, May 22, 2014
Symphony of a Missing Room takes you on an immersive fairytale quest is impressive, but its meaning is too banal for Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:31AMTuesday, May 20, 2014
Director David Mercatali and actor Jack Holden explain how Dalton Trumbo's blistering diatribe has been brought to the stageAfter being hit by a shell towards the end of the first world war,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:13AMFriday, May 16, 2014
This version of Beckett's classic is good fun but lacks any deep sense of despair, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 06:44AMTuesday, May 13, 2014
Anya Reiss's contemporary version of Spring Awakening is a treatise on adolescence
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:46AMMonday, May 5, 2014
Dmitry Krymov got the Brighton Festival off to a super start with his take on art's duty during atrocities, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 12:18PMForeplay, at the King's Head Theatre, is basically a country house mystery with a highbrow slant and a dusting of salacious gossip
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 04:25AMTuesday, April 29, 2014
The 90-year-old writer takes on big ideas about science, sex and storytelling in Foreplay, written for readers as well as audiencesTheatre often makes grandiose claims about changing the wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:58AMSaturday, April 26, 2014
As his play about single-father superhero Captain Amazing takes flight in London, Alistair McDowall talks about Lycra and lonersAlistair McDowall's debut play, Brilliant Adventures, looked l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00AMFriday, April 25, 2014
This Russian-language import misses Chekov's humour, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 08:43AMTuesday, April 22, 2014
The RSC and the Royal Court are introducing schoolchildren to a different class of educational theatre with plays that are at the heart of their programmesMichael Fentiman can remember the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:05AMMonday, April 21, 2014
His first play was based on a Tom Waits song and his latest work was inspired by Thom Yorke. Simon Stephens tells Matt Trueman why he just can't write without music Listen to Simon Stephens'…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AMThursday, April 17, 2014
Oh My Sweet Land is steeped in melancholy, but teeters dangerously close to indulgence, says Matt Trueman
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:17AMFriday, April 4, 2014
When the story broke that a Banksy artwork had rendered a vagrant street performer homeless, it was in danger of turning the evictee into a commodity himself. But isn't a play detailing the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:47AMSimon Dormandy's production is more cryptic than it needs to be
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 09:38AMTuesday, April 1, 2014
This new dance-theatre adaptation of the film is a terrific crowd-pleaser
SOURCE: The Telegraph at 07:44AM 
