Saturday, November 3, 2012
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs/Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London SW1Enron, DC Moore, Clybourne Park, Nina Raine, Posh, Anya Reiss, Love and Information, Polly Stenham, Sucker Punch. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:01PMSaturday, October 20, 2012
Tricycle; Jermyn Street; Lyric Hammersmith, LondonWhat an incisive, fervent beginning. Indhu Rubasingham takes over with panache at the Tricycle, bowing to the theatre's politically engaged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PMSaturday, October 13, 2012
National Theatre, LondonThis is the National doing its job. Nicholas Hytner's theatre is behaving as if it were a federation of varied talents: the good, the very good and the not so good. T…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, October 6, 2012
Lab; Abbey theatre; Project Arts theatre, DublinDublin is a glorious rarity among theatre festivals. It depends upon itself. It does not assume that the best work, the best subjects, the bes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMSaturday, September 29, 2012
Harold Pinter theatre; Barbican, LondonTrevor Nunn began the summer by directing a heavy-handed Kiss Me Kate; he ends it by staging a star-encrusted but tepid Chorus of Disapproval. What a w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 22, 2012
Royal Court, London; Young Vic, London; West Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsAnother Royal Court command: Love and Information is a play that everyone should see. Once again Caryl Churchill has li…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, September 15, 2012
Old Vic; Almeida; Hampstead, LondonHedda Gabler ends with a famous bang behind closed doors. Wouldn't it, a friend once suggested, be ripping if those doors opened on a Hedda who had put an …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, September 1, 2012
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre; Royal Lyceum; Assembly Hall, Edinburgh"We have waited 48 years to come to the Edinburgh international festival," said Ariane Mnouchkine. Audiences have w…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, August 25, 2012
Holkham, Norfolk; Theatre Square/Pop-up Workshop, National Theatre, LondonWhat is most annoying about Robert Wilson's Walking? The adamantine amiability? The aura of sacredness? The meagre n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, August 18, 2012
Lowland Hall, Royal Highland Centre; Royal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghThree shows: one exciting and splashy, one meretricious and one a work of quiet distinction. Not a bad tally for Edinburgh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, August 11, 2012
Hangar 858 Picketston, RAF St Athan, Vale of Glamorgan; Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonIt's two years, almost to the day, since Mike Pearson and Mike Brookes brought Aeschylus to the Brecon Beacon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, August 4, 2012
Cottesloe; Donmar; Criterion, LondonIt's almost perverse. To take a story whose hero cannot lie, for whom metaphor is a foreign land, and put it on that most metaphorical of places, the stag…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThe Observer's theatre critic chooses her favourite scenes of onstage dining, from Danish indigestion to a feast of ShawFestenA bourgeois Danish family gather around the table for a patriarc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMFrom Danish indigestion to gruesome Shakespearean revengeSusannah Clapp
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMSaturday, July 28, 2012
Globe; Lyttelton; National; LondonThis is an extraordinary period in the theatre. Within 10 days Britain's two most captivating Shakespearean interpreters have taken to the stage to recreate…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, July 21, 2012
Olivier, London; Cuckmere Haven, Sussex, and other venues; Southwark Playhouse, LondonSuddenly Timon of Athens looks essential. Nicholas Hytner's aggressively witty production, which transfo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 30, 2012
Royal Court, London; Chichester Festival theatre; National, LondonA man gets pregnant. The Royal Court's publicists have been discreet about the subject of Joe Penhall's new play, but to lit…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, June 16, 2012
Noël Coward; Royal Court; Roundhouse, LondonIt is an act of extreme daring. New York's Elevator Repair Service has put on stage The Great Gatsby's maddening, self-destructive, languorous an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, June 9, 2012
Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon; Donmar; Peacock, LondonNot only despots and murderous conspiracy but prophecy and magical portents. In setting Julius Caesar in a riven African state,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMSaturday, June 2, 2012
ThreeSixty theatre, Kensington Gardens; Open Air, Regent's Park; Olivier, LondonWhat is Rupert Goold up to? He has given the theatre some of the most exciting excursions of the past five yea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 19, 2012
Savoy, London; Holt hotel, Norfolk; Cottesloe, LondonOn the screen in 1975 it was Walter Matthau and George Burns. In a 1996 television adaptation it was Woody Allen and Peter ("Columbo") Fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, May 12, 2012
Malthouse Estate, Shoreham-by-Sea; Caledonian Park, London; Aldwych, LondonFractured, self-reflecting, cut off from those around him. The site-specific company Dreamthinkspeak has gone to th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 5, 2012
The Hub, Pacific Quay, Glasgow; Royal Court; Globe, LondonIn a terrific imaginative stroke, director John Tiffany co-opts not only the city of Glasgow but the entire sky for his production o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, April 14, 2012
Apollo, London; New Vic, Newcastle-under-Lyme; Bush, LondonEugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night is a mighty work. It has a straight-from-the-heart punch, a long, allusive reach and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, April 7, 2012
Print Room, London; Tobacco Factory, Bristol; Finborough, LondonThe tiny Print Room delivers classic plays with a magnified immediacy. Lucy Bailey's lovely Uncle Vanya is played in the round…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PMSaturday, March 31, 2012
Old Vic, London; Theatre Royal, Newcastle; Royal Court, LondonJohn Webster was for Bernard Shaw the "Tussaud laureate": a playwright of waxy gore. Today he can look like the Damien Hirst dra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, March 10, 2012
Hampstead, London; Sherman Cymru, Cardiff; Young Vic, LondonForget the Notting Hill sillies. Think instead of the most original Jane Austen film adaptation – the mud-soaked, seemingly make…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, March 3, 2012
Southwark Playhouse; Royal Court; Trafalgar Studios, LondonUnder the railway arches of Southwark Playhouse, bare brickwork gives off a damp pong and the dusky tunnels burrow far back. The pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, February 25, 2012
Royal Court, London; His Majesty's, Aberdeen; Tricycle, LondonAnywhere but Essex, it seems. "He's a writer," an aspirant character in David Eldridge's new play explains of her boyfriend. "Wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, February 18, 2012
Donmar, London; Yvonne Arnaud, GuildfordJosie Rourke has chosen well. Her first production as artistic director of the Donmar marks a departure for the theatre that, under Sam Mendes and Mic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 10, 2011
It's been a great year for Southwark Playhouse, Hampstead and the National – and an unforgettable one for Michael SheenThe Passion was the year's revelation. Ranging over the whole of Port…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PM 
