All stories by Rachel Halliburton on BroadwayStars

Thursday, July 19, 2018

A Monster Calls, Old Vic - wild, beautiful theatre that beguiles and bruises by Rachel Halliburton

A fearlessly experimental, physically ingenious exploration of the textA raw pagan vitality animates this extraordinary story about a teenage boy wrestling with tumultuous emotions in the fa…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:04AM
Wednesday, July 4, 2018

As You Like It, Shakespeare in the Squares review - an exuberant celebration of the Summer of Love by Rachel Halliburton

Infectious fun delivered by a cast bursting with boisterous talentGender-bending, confused identities, and hedonistic anarchy go together as naturally in summer Shakespeare as strawberries a…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:06AM
Thursday, June 28, 2018

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Wilton's Music Hall review - a stereotype-smashing evening of pagan delights by Rachel Halliburton

The Faction brings fire and gumption to ShakespeareThe Faction’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a production in which women are more likely to kick ass than sleep with one – a muscular, …

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54PM
Friday, June 22, 2018

The Town Hall Affair, The Wooster Group, Barbican review - electric anarchy by Rachel Halliburton

Invigorating theatre: the 1971 Manhattan feminism vs Norman Mailer debate recreatedIconoclasm, orgasms, and rampant rhetoric are all on irrepressible display in The Wooster Group’s recreat…

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:36AM
Saturday, June 16, 2018

Notes From the Field, Royal Court review - sobering report from the frontline of race by Rachel Halliburton

Anna Deavere Smith shines her singular light on American inequality and systemic injusticeAnna Deavere Smith contains multitudes. As the solo performance artist recounts the testimonies she …

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:18AM
Monday, June 11, 2018

Isabelle Huppert reads Marquis de Sade, Queen Elizabeth Hall review - virtue twinned with vice by Rachel Halliburton

Isabelle Huppert brings her customary rigour to some notorious writingsIn an era marked by virtue-signalling, it's perhaps no surprise that Isabelle Huppert – a woman who has always gone …

SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:18AM

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