White Bear theatre, LondonInspired by real-life accounts, Jules Chan’s play returns the audience to the early months of the pandemic but doesn’t create enough drama This part-verbatim dr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMIn the first of a series of case studies exploring the impact of Arts Council England’s new funding decisions, we consider the view from the Watermill theatre, Welsh National Opera and Pai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonExploring the agent’s life after she fell into Nazi hands, this beguilingly played story reflects on bravery and culpability Not enough is known of Noor Inayat K…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AMThe Pit, Barbican, London With live music, video and spoken word testimony, a dramatic rap subculture energetically seizes the chance to present its own complicated story on stage Seven bala…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMRoyal Court theatre, LondonMartin Crimp’s show uses AI and deep-fake technology to question the definition of drama – and what it is to be human There are circles within circles of inqui…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMNorth Wall Arts Centre, OxfordDeborah Pugh delivers a brilliantly intense take on the ancient tales, foregrounding the heroism of women ‘This is the story of my severed head.” As first l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMAvailable onlineEffectively filmed for streaming audiences in a sharply told adaptation, this adventure stars Luke Barton as the bumptious master detective “If this is to be our final adve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AMHampstead theatre, LondonRona Munro’s engaging debate drama has some thrilling exchanges as three characters argue the case for and against Mary Queen of Scots The Mary of the title refers…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWilton’s Music Hall, LondonSet in the New Mexico desert, David Farr’s unusual play dips into virtual reality in order to raise questions of love, life and what constitutes the human esse…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AMSeven Dials Playhouse, LondonA distressed woman unravels after her father’s suicide in a play that strikes the wrong balance between humour and sorrow Daddy Issues sets itself a tall order…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMThey have suffered vicious abuse and ugly trolling, but the team behind the Globe’s Shakespeare and Race festival tell our writer why their work feels more urgent than ever When Farah Kari…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMAlmeida, London Songs belt out deliriously in this romp through rise and fall of the Bakker televangelists and latterday gay icons – so thick and fast the James Graham script and Jake Shea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:19AMPark theatre, LondonExcellent performances enhance this story of three young boys hurtling towards gang culture King Hamlin begins with a teenager’s funeral. We learn of the boy’s stabbi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AMPark theatre, LondonThis adaptation of Christopher Isherwood’s novel about a gay man grieving for his lover lacks the depth of Tom Ford’s movie version Christopher Isherwood’s 1964 nov…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMBristol Old VicWith inky backdrops, jagged sound and frenzied violence, John Haidar’s production stars Billy Howle as a prince emanating unhinged anger The opening scene suggests that this…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:19AMBarbican, LondonThe Royal Shakespeare Company’s production has astonishing puppetry, magical music and huge emotional impact How to adapt an iconic film made by the creative giants at Stud…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:49AMMinerva theatre, ChichesterIn spite of a nifty set and new songs, this story of an oil-man trying to buy a Highlands village never quite comes alive This adaptation of Bill Forsyth’s 1983 …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AMThe Hope theatre, LondonThe characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AMReading Rep theatrePlaywright Gary McNair turns the gothic novel into a brilliantly bewitching show performed by Audrey Brisson The small square stage looks more fitted up for a standup gig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonRevived with a superb cast, CP Taylor’s play about a professor embracing nazism is fascinating psychological theatre with the feel of a fever dream There is an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AMAvailable onlineA virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter This virtual conversation between Samuel …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonJenna Fincken’s one-woman play, inspired by real stories, gets inside the head of a young woman in a toxic relationship Jenna Fincken’s one-woman play anatomis…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AMHalf Moon theatre, LondonElayne Ogbeta’s play explores intergenerational love as a man struggles to tell his granddaughter that he is leaving Britain I have not told my nieces what Grandad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AMDuke of York’s Theatre, LondonRobert Icke’s combative 2019 play about medical ethics, identity politics and antisemitism returns to the West End to divide and challenge audiences The ret…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49PMRodreguez King-Dorset takes the stage as three protagonists in a coruscating drama about the Windrush scandal Rodreguez King-Dorset’s drama about racism and the Windrush scandal first took…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AMHampstead theatre, LondonGeorgina Burns’ debut play about an overburdened counselling unit presents perceptive insights and no easy answers A therapist at an NHS counselling unit jokes dar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AMAvailable onlineWriter Jessica Walker sings strongly but this tale of family dysfunction and abuse doesn’t hang together It is reassuring to see online shows being made beyond pandemic nec…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PMLyric Hammersmith, LondonGary Owen’s magnificent one-woman monologue brings Greek tragedy to Cardiff and reveals the terrible emotional costs of our societal shortfalls This monologue was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AMBridge theatre, LondonTurning to a lesser-staged work by Ibsen might seem risky, but Nicholas Hytner’s production is held together by some powerhouse performances Reviving a lesser-staged …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PMNational Theatre, LondonDirector Lyndsey Turner misses the opportunity to give Arthur Miller’s allegory modern resonance with a too-faithful interpretation Arthur Miller’s play used the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AMRoyal Court, London Jonathan Freedland has turned 180,000 words drawn from interviews into a potent verbatim play about antisemitism and the blindspots of liberal institutions. The results f…
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