By Tim Hochstrasser Tim Hochstrasser reviews My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) which is now playing at The Bunker Theatre, London. This post My White Best Friend (And Othe…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:32AMBy Tim Hochstrasser Tim Hochstrasser reviews Headlong's new production of William Shakespeare's Richard III now playing at the newly restored Alexandra Palace Theatre. This post REVIEW: Rich…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:11AMBy Tim Hochstrasser Tim Hochstrasser reviews Athol Fugard's play Blood Knot now playing at the Orange Tree Theatre, Richmond. This post REVIEW: Blood Knot, Orange Tree Theatre ✭✭✭ firs…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:34AMBy Tim Hochstrasser Tim Hochstrasser reviews Athol Fugard's A Lesson From Aloes now playing at the Finborough Theatre, London. This post REVIEW: A Lesson From Aloes, Finborough Theatre ✭�…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:28PMBy Tim Hochstrasser Tim Hochstrasser reviews Howard Colyer's new play As a man Grows Stronger performed by David Bromley at the Brockley Jack Studio Theatre. This post REVIEW: As A Man Grows…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:07PMBy Tim Hochstrasser Tim Hochstrasser reviews Joe Orton’s The Ruffian On The Stairs now playing at The Hope Theatre. This post REVIEW: The Ruffian On The Stair, Hope Theatre ✭✭✭ f…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:08AMBy Tim Hochstrasser My best revival recommendation would go to Antic Disposition’s HENRY V played in the evocative setting of Temple Church. It is very hard to find something new to say ab…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:09AMBy Tim Hochstrasser The play itself would get four stars from me, but the outstanding production values and overall experience of the evening enable me to add a final star at the top of the …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:50AMBy Tim Hochstrasser The action interweaves the stories and mounting crises of four women whose lives are in different ways based on a series of lies. It is billed as a comedy drama but the t…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:06AMBy Tim Hochstrasser With the death of provincial repertory theatre, the connections between the theatre world of London and ‘the provinces’ have atrophied, and where The Miniaturists cou…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:56AMBy Tim Hochstrasser This is an immensely polished, professional and stylish evening which marks another example of how contemporary cabaret is still exploring and pushing at the boundaries o…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:37AMBy Tim Hochstrasser This was one of the most demanding nights I have had in the theatre as reviewer or audience member in a long while, and that was wholly justified by the challenge and rev…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:52AMBy Tim Hochstrasser United We Stand is a powerful refutation of this view and a reassertion of the continuing value of political theatre. Its channelling of moral passion, a powerful narrati…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:07AMBy Tim Hochstrasser The audience on press night - with as many face-painted adults as children – loved it all. If you are looking for a reliable night out at the theatre with the full repe…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 03:36PMBy Tim Hochstrasser Despite some rough edges this was a continually thoughtful and engaging production that is targeted very deftly at those coming to the play for the first time. In the abs…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:11PMBy Tim Hochstrasser Evocations of famous films can tip over into parody or unintended comedy very easily but thanks to the skill of the writing and the carefully graded, fully inhabited acti…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:51PMBy Tim Hochstrasser Director Brandon Force and movement director Liam Steward-George deserve great credit for creating such a dynamic and detailed production with continual visual, choreogra…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:29AMBy Tim Hochstrasser Maybe we were all weary at the end of a full day of theatre; maybe, and with ample justification, the cast were flagging after appearances in different roles in the previ…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:39AMBy Tim Hochstrasser Suffice to say that Barton and Hall attempt to clarify the bewildering blizzard of switched allegiances, broken promises and inconclusive battles that form the later sect…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:24AMBy Tim Hochstrasser In sum this is a show that deserves all the plaudits that have come its way and should receive a long run both at the King’s Cross Theatre and in even larger West End v…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:45AMBy Tim Hochstrasser Henry VI stands out as the play in this triptych that most benefits from Barton’s editing and clarifications. Characters and scenes are cut away in profusion to reveal …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 04:20AMBy Tim Hochstrasser Everyone involved in this production acted with commitment and a good sense of pace and projection within this intimate space, but the success of the whole remains fundam…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 01:01PMBy Tim Hochstrasser While the emotional wattage did not burn as brightly as it might, and while we were never really made to feel fully uncomfortable with either issues or text as we should,…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 10:58AMBy Tim Hochstrasser This is an intriguing and valuable revival with some very solid performances at its heart. I am not fully persuaded that this double-bill has earned a lasting niche in th…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 06:02AMBy Tim Hochstrasser So for all the efforts of the actors to make their characters more rounded and sympathetic this play tells us more about the anger in the air after the events of 2008 tha…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 12:25PMBy Tim Hochstrasser It is clear from the start that this play – which runs straight through for eighty minutes – is potentially a drama about coming-out and sexual initiation, and indeed…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 11:42AMBy Tim Hochstrasser All in all this is a revival very much deserving of support. You reward will be some genuinely fine ensemble acting and some neglected writing that you can explore again …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 09:13AMBy Tim Hochstrasser This is a genial, quietly satisfying set of reflections on how hard rural life can be and how mostly distant it has always been from any kind of Arcadian idyll or vision …
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 08:53AMBy Tim Hochstrasser While there are more serious moments to be found in this play, especially focused on the opportunities for women in the new theatre of the 1660s, there is no point pressi…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 07:17AMBy Tim Hochstrasser This is a fully compelling night at the theatre. You do not feel the time dragging and can only be impressed at the way the cast finds new meanings in material that we al…
SOURCE: britishtheatre.com at 05:32PMBy Tim Hochstrasser I willing to concede that I have may have missed a great deal, and certainly the mainly youngish audience loved it on press night; but to me this was ultimately a prepost…
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