Essiedu radiates the impudent charisma, energy and wounded idealism of youth
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:38AMThe proceedings are enjoyable but rarely generate the requisite helpless hilarity and have a rather dated feel, however
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:06PMAlexander Hanson is squirm-making as married Michel who is having an affair with Alice, the wife of his best friend
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:03AMContinuing our series marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Paul Taylor explains why even one of his less celebrated plays remains a source of wonder and inspiration
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:39PMYou feel as though you've aged a decade as the light gradually fades
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:21AMRichard Eyre directs and adapts this revival with a quietly shattering insight into its terrifying depths
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36AMThis is a disturbing, balefully hilarious new play
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:37AMSheridan Smith can do little wrong these days, whether as Cilla Black or as Shakespeare’s Titania
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:02AMI couldn't watch the appalling scene of the foetus's emergence again unless held at gunpoint
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:07AMWritten in 1907 and revised in 1926, Harley Granville Barker's work is perennially a play for today
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:09PMAn exhilarating and sharp satire of those Christmas films in which a parent thaws and bonds with a wayward child
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:26PMA resplendent day showed the different sides of Branagh's personality and reunited him with actors of an older vintage
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:04PMThis is warmly recommended
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:43AMIt's hilarious – as is Joe Bannister's enchanting performance as Orlando
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:34AMThe emotions that the play's Expressionism is supposed to be heightening get shorter shrift
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:21AMAbove all, in its very different way, it strikes me as being in the grand tradition of Black Snow
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:07AMSuperlative revival sensitises you to the comparable waste of young people's potential today
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:27AMThe work presents three of D H Lawrence's stage masterpieces, written between 1911 and 1913, as a single composite drama
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:49AMThis selection of plays about the iconic charter is uneven in quality, but well worth the trip
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:33AMDementia has now become what daffodils were to Wordsworth to some of the keenest artistic minds of our era
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:44AMMoodie is as big-heartedly there as Joanne herself seems to be defined by elusiveness and absence
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:44AMIt will be a crime against life if Young Chekhov doesn't transfer
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:17AMIn an unnamed Eastern country, Tom Hughes's twitchy, selfish, privileged Simon is awaiting execution for the alleged murder of a prostitute
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:31AMInterpretation of the Bard's self-thwarting problem comedy revs into a kind of an elating parody
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:10AMThe story is partly based on the real-life case of a young man who took his own life when he discovered that his room mate was spying on his actual erotic encounters with men via a webc…
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:28AMThe experience of this trilogy throngs with satisfyingly rounded performances
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:13PMPerfectly attuned production earns its five stars despite arguably a terrible mishap with plot and tone towards the end
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:08AMThe Wolf Hall actor's Philippe V is wrong-footlingly whimsical but buffeted with gusts of violent paranoia
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:12AMGregory Doran has crafted an impressive addition to his English histories project
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:22AMErica Whyman's splendid Swan Theatre production is potently restrained
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:22AMLaura Wade's stage adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel is worth the admission price for certain sequences alone
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:22AM
