Saturday, May 21, 2011
RSC, Stratford; Olivier, London, Barbican, LondonThe ducats are dollars. The choice of caskets takes place during a bridal game show called Destiny. Shylock delivers his "hath not a Jew" spe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMThe Observer's theatre critic chooses the 10 sets that changed the face of modern theatre, from a 1912 Hamlet to Punchdrunk's immersive FaustSusannah Clapp
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMThe Observer's theatre critic chooses the 10 sets that changed the face of modern theatre, from a 1912 Hamlet to Punchdrunk's immersive Faust Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:01PMSaturday, May 14, 2011
Elsing Hall, Norfolk; Halesworth, Suffolk"Compared to this," bellows one of the Queens, "other entertainment will be like standing in fog and in mud." She has an angry point. Dining with Ali…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, May 7, 2011
Southwark; Globe, both London; RSC, Stratford-upon-AvonI've never seen a pool of sweat expand on a stage floor as rapidly as it does in Tender Napalm. And never been in a theatre where the a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 30, 2011
Port Talbot, WalesIn the beginning was the Word. On the street: "Were you in the town centre when John the Baptist tried to get on the escalator?" At the end, there was an image. By the sea:…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, April 23, 2011
House of Detention; Little Angel; Hampstead, all LondonMacbeth is this season's Shakespeare. David Morrissey will soon be strutting and fretting in his old Liverpool haunts and Jonathan Slin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, April 16, 2011
Cottesloe; Novello; Trafalgar Studios, all LondonLondon Road is the riposte to anyone who thinks "musical" must mean either froth or stodge. Alecky Blythe and Adam Cork's wonderfully sung pl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03PMSaturday, April 2, 2011
Old Vic; Lyttelton, both LondonVowel-torturing upper-class accents; ferocious feelings; a traditional scene performed in an abstract place. Thea Sharrock – who kick-started the Terence Rat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:09PMSaturday, March 26, 2011
Gielgud; Almeida; Cottesloe, all LondonIf candyfloss could be set to music, this is what you'd get. A lovely haze, a puffy sweetness, nothing to bite on. Pastel-coloured balloons are waved; …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMSaturday, March 19, 2011
Hampstead; Theatre Royal Haymarket; Vaudeville, all LondonEcstasy: by which Mike Leigh means desperation under a candlewick bedspread. His restaging of this 1979 play, originally devised at …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:04PMSaturday, March 12, 2011
Apollo, London W1; Playhouse, OxfordIt should be the ultimate revival. Noël Coward's 1941 play about the return of the dead is resurrected by the director who has become the diva of the red…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, February 26, 2011
Olivier; Donmar; Barbican, all LondonIn the centre of the Olivier stage is a pale disc like an enormous seed pod. Within it you can just make out a shadowy figure. It pulses, and the theatre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, February 19, 2011
Tobacco Factory, Bristol; Hampstead; Print Room, both LondonIt rings out clearly as an early stab at Hamlet. It also declares war on a rotten England, a land nibbled away by – it's an ever…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, February 12, 2011
Comedy, London; Studio, Sheffield Theatres; Royal Court, LondonThere have been reports of one ticket changing hands for £900. Ian (Jerusalem) Rickson's production of The Children's Hour wil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, February 5, 2011
Lyceum, Sheffield; Lyttelton, LondonWith a jaunty chorus of "Down Among the Dead Men", spivs in bowlers close in for the kill. The executioner's blade slices to the sound of plainsong. Figur…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, January 29, 2011
Lyric Hammersmith; Almeida; Bush, all LondonFirst, he had a success with Ghost Stories, still playing in the West End. Now he has adapted Roald Dahl's adult fictions. Jeremy Dyson, of the Le…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, January 22, 2011
Cottesloe; Hampstead; Arcola, all LondonTo celebrate his 80th birthday, Peter Hall has returned to the building he once ran and directed a sweetly autumnal Twelfth Night. His breeches-and-fa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, January 15, 2011
Bridewell; Theatre Delicatessen; Roundhouse, all LondonFor once a production has earned the description "site-specific". To stage Steve Waters's new play about Olympic swimmers, the Bridewel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, December 18, 2010
Bristol Old Vic; Royal Court, London SW1; Battersea Arts Centre, London SW11; Old Vic, London SE1The Christmas show grew up this year. Not into innuendo and violence – panto can take care …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMSaturday, December 11, 2010
The Observer's theatre critic reflects on a year dominated by youth and Tennessee Williams2010 was a tremendous year for the Royal Court. With Tribes, Nina Raine established herself as a thr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMDonmar, London; RSC, Stratford-upon-Avon; Lyttelton, LondonIt's hard to remember a better week in the theatre. Three top-notch productions; three totally different dramas; three surprises: t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, December 4, 2010
Young Vic; Cottesloe; Tragfalgar Studios; Little Angel, all LondonHe laughs like a hiccuping chicken, and when he eats toast regurgitates as if he were an owl. He perches on a kitchen chair …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05PMSaturday, November 20, 2010
Olivier; Young Vic; Almeida; all LondonIt has got audiences on their feet applauding at the National. It has the stalls attempting, if not a full pelvic thrust, at least a flaccid twinge. An…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04PMSaturday, November 13, 2010
Print Room; Hampstead; Vaudeville, all LondonLike a good deed in a naughty, cuts-devastated world, a new theatre opened this week. Lucy Bailey and Anda Winters's Print Room, a privately fund…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:08PMSunday, March 11, 2007
Robert Lindsay excels in John Osborne's state-of-the-nation attack on Fifties Britain Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:14AM 
