Tuesday, December 18, 2018
Justin Audibert's production excels at portraying the book's alchemical qualitiesIf you’re looking for a Christmas with more pagan edge than saccharine cheer, where the wolves ar…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:36AMFriday, December 7, 2018
A deceptive lightness of tone brings new resonance to the textWhat do you gain by casting Dr Faustus and Mephistopheles as women? In the programme for this often illuminating production, dir…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:18AMMonday, December 3, 2018
Our heroine is torn between the charms of a washing-machine inventor and a CountThe convention-challenging sexually adventurous life of Glaswegian writer Aimée Stuart is worth a play all on…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:54AMWednesday, November 21, 2018
West End transfer from the Almeida retains pressure-cooker intensityThis production of Tennessee Williams’ neglected classic, Summer and Smoke, arrives from the Almeida into the West End w…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:24AMThursday, November 15, 2018
A daring counterintuitive reading proves richly rewardingMacbeth has rarely seemed quite as metrosexual as in this gorgeous shadow-painted production that marks artistic director at the Glob…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:32AMFriday, November 2, 2018
This scalpel-sharp drama anatomises marital breakdown with cold-eyed clarityAdultery seldom looks less adult than in the form of the mild-life crisis – that much-satirised condition in whi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMFriday, October 19, 2018
Ken Urban's play is a psychological thriller crossed with a love storyThis blisteringly intense evening at Trafalgar Studios begins with two strangers in an Amsterdam hotel bedroom and …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:36AMThursday, October 11, 2018
A disappointing portrait of middle-class hypocrisyThe playwright Bathsheba Doran has blazed a stellar trail ever since graduating from Cambridge at the same time as David Mitchell and Robert…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:18AMWednesday, October 3, 2018
James Graham's Dickens project is structurally ambitious but doesn't add upIt sounds like a marriage made in heaven. Charles Dickens and James Graham – both great chroniclers of…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:42AMFriday, September 28, 2018
Authentic performances hit the mark"I’m not a number, I’m not a grade, and I’m not a failure." The 17-year-old girl stands in front of the small class, who gaze at her goggle-eyed. "A …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:36AMThursday, September 20, 2018
The spirit of Magritte pervades this brand of existentialismAs the Syrian conflict enters its final convulsions, renewing memories of how the Sykes-Picot agreement – between an Englishman …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:12AMThursday, September 6, 2018
Humour used too often as a substitute for perceptionLycra, jealousy and pubescent ambition are put under the spotlight in Clare Barron’s provocative probe into the American competitive dan…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:04AMMonday, August 27, 2018
Celebrates multicultural diversity with a zingA break-dancing mini Michael Jackson, a transvestite Neptune, and a hero who wears his hubris as proudly as his gold-tipped trainers, are unconv…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:04AMThursday, July 26, 2018
As the manic, self-obsessed king, Rhys Ifans cuts an extraordinary presenceThe image of a raging, narcissistic tyrant, convinced that he can crush even death into oblivion, has all too many …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:42AMThursday, July 19, 2018
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 06:04AMWednesday, July 4, 2018
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 07:06AMThursday, June 28, 2018
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 07:54PMFriday, June 22, 2018
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 07:36AMSaturday, June 16, 2018
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 08:18AMMonday, June 11, 2018
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 
