Tuesday, June 25, 2019
William Baldwin concealed his 16th-century book Beware the Cat because of its satirical swipes at the Catholic church. Now, it’s celebrated on stage
What was the first novel in the English…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:36AMThursday, June 20, 2019
Theatre Royal BathSaunders is a fizzy delight as the medium in Richard Eyre’s revival of the Noël Coward comedy about a couple haunted by the ghost of the husband’s first wife
Noël Cow…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:54PMMonday, June 10, 2019
Pleasance, LondonDavid Finnigan’s bold play about protesters who take an environment minister hostage is stalled by metatheatrics
In London’s Parliament Square last October, teenage acti…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:24AMTuesday, June 4, 2019
Arcola, LondonFemi Elufowoju Jr’s engaging production puts an African American family at its centre but misses some of the play’s quietly heart-wringing moments
Playwright August Wilson…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:42AMMonday, June 3, 2019
NST City, SouthamptonUpdated to include Brexit, Peter Morgan’s 2013 drama about the Queen’s off-the-record conversations with her prime ministers seems underpowered
Peter Morgan’s play…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:18PMMonday, May 27, 2019
Finborough theatre, LondonJulia Pascal’s dynamic production sees Medea reborn as a former fighter against Isis who finds Jason in the British capital
Euripides’ Medea is not just a blood…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:24PMThursday, May 23, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonNyla Levy’s play about London schoolfriends, divided when one goes to Syria, is savvy, streetwise and energetic
What makes a 15-year-old from Mitcham, south London, lea…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:03AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Arcola theatre, LondonThere are entertaining performances in Bim Adewunmi’s lively debut play about a British-Nigerian family with a dinner guest
The dinner party has served as the setting…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:03PMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Hampstead theatre, LondonZingy repartee and energetic performances fail to enliven Roy Williams’ tale about a criminal gang’s unresolved grievances
The Firm opens in high mood as four mi…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06PMTuesday, May 14, 2019
Ovalhouse, LondonNothing feels gratuitous in Bella Heesom’s bold and poetic play about female sexuality which ends in catharsis not climax
More than 20 years ago, Eve Ensler dared to say t…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:12PMThursday, May 9, 2019
Birmingham RepThis staging of the bestseller loses the story’s gut-wrenching power in a sea of lighthearted flourish
Khaled Hosseini’s bestselling book The Kite Runner is about fathers, …
Linked From The Guardian at 03:18PMFriday, April 26, 2019
Rose theatre, KingstonRona Munro’s adaptation of the Louis de Bernières classic cuts back the love story to drum home the bloody trauma of conflict
Louis de Bernières’s Greek island ep…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:34AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonUnfettered excess and predatory humour combine in a timely reflection on big business
Jerry Sterner’s play about Wall Street avarice first opened off-Broadway tw…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:37AMFriday, April 19, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonThere’s comedy and mystery but darker themes are under-explored in this original but tricksy meta-theatre production
Anthony (Ciarán Owens) is a thirtysomething gay ma…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:21AMThe Watermill Theatre, NewburyThe arrival of the kind-hearted and introverted Parisian on the UK stage is a magical and emotional triumph of adaptation
The formidable success of Amélie the …
Linked From The Guardian at 03:55AMSunday, April 14, 2019
Among the protesters heading for parliament are Noah’s family and Ade Adepitan as God in a suit. April De Angelis talks about turning the biblical flood into riotous drama
On Monday, a day…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:00AMThursday, April 11, 2019
A Piece of the Continent, a festival celebrating the unifying influence of European theatre, includes dramas about patriarchy, dogmatism and dementia
As Britain seeks to finalise its divorce…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:54AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Blocked from entering Tibet, he simply walked in through the Himalayas, hiding from Chinese soldiers. As his play about riots in the region is finally staged, the Indian writer talks about l…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:38AMWednesday, March 20, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis drama inspired by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is ripe for revival but the story asks more questions than it answers
James Phillips calls it the “perfect time…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:07AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion
The multiracial plays of Athol Fugard …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:56AMSunday, March 10, 2019
The award-winning actor and writer on All About Eve, celebrity culture and the perils of not actually being Welsh
Monica Dolan is a Bafta-winning actor and writer. Born in Middlesbrough, her…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:00AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Gate theatre, LondonA story from a Somali pirate kicks off this outlandish comic critique of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
Wolfram Lotz’s surreally comic critique of Joseph Conrad…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:23AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Royal Court, LondonClean Break’s satirical look at the stereotypes around life in jail ends up undone by its own artifice
Inside Bitch is a drama about drama and its misrepresentations. Fo…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:49PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Salisbury PlayhouseThis frenetic rewind for Agatha Christie’s mystery splits between Hollywood homage and send-up
In a bare room, an elderly woman sleeps in an armchair, sprained ankle on …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonBarney Norris’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker winner about the perils of blind duty speaks to modern Britain
‘The play must be unlike the book …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:48AMWednesday, February 20, 2019
Serving the cucumber sandwiches in a future Britain, Tara Arts and Two Gents present Oscar Wilde’s classic as an urgent tale of migrant survival – with only two actors
Ayesha Casely-Hayf…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:09AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Playground theatre, London This attempt to delve into the disgraced movie mogul’s mind finds rage, denial and hateThe theatre’s promotional blurb warns that Steven Berkoff will go “whe…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:04PMSunday, February 10, 2019
Birmingham Repertory theatreJoe Penhall’s play about a young black patient caught between two clashing white doctors is incendiary, intellectually rich and ever topicalWhen Blue/Orange was…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, January 31, 2019
Vaults, LondonA mother and daughter have profound discussions about identity but this drama is still searching for its centreA Muslim mother and daughter are preparing for Ramadan when their…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:04AMMonday, January 21, 2019
The Egg, BathNick Makoha’s fragmented and vertiginous account of his treacherous journey to Britain is a story of our timesOn the left of the stage, a screen projects the Miltonic line: …
Linked From The Guardian at 01:54AMSaturday, January 19, 2019
With an adaptation of Noughts and Crosses set to tour the UK and her anthology of Muslim writing picked for Emma Watson’s book club, the prolific British writer is as busy as ever. Here sh…
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