Thursday, March 3, 2022
Daniel Evans coaxes out some beautiful performances from his ensemble in this experimental new play at the Dorfman
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, February 5, 2022
With her National Theatre production, Emma Rice does a fairly remarkable job in making the text as lucid as it is, even if depth of character is sacrificed for breadth of narrative
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 2, 2022
Caryl Churchill's dystopian play has been shorn of its sharper absurdist edges " but Essiedu and Lennie James offer a series of delicately drawn character studies
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:18AM[SHARE]Friday, January 21, 2022
The Piccadilly Theatre's adaptation of Baz Luhrmann's film is at its most enjoyable when it eschews such concepts as 'characterisation' and 'narrative' and throws itself entirely into its ju…
SOURCE: The Independent at 02:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 24, 2021
Moira Buffini's play is weighed down by outdated jokes and an oversimplification of modern politics
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 5, 2021
Greg Hersov's direction doesn't have the requisite drive needed to make this play feel genuinely urgent
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 8, 2021
The stage adaptation of Disney's smash will leave you dazed and breathless, if a little hollow
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:48PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 4, 2021
This sumptuous new version was originally intended for a stage run in 2020 before being adapted for the screen
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 13, 2020
As dazzling as the iconic show may be, it fails to fulfil its aim of portraying Henry VIII's wives as individual women with beating hearts
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Finally performed on the socially distanced main stage space, Alice Hamilton's production of Pinter's one-act play is fittingly, uncannily claustrophobic
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:32PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2020
<p>Jonathan O'Boyle's beautifully judged production has now been remounted for the Covid age, with Perspex dividers between each seat</p>
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2020
<p>It seems sometimes like writer David Hare is attempting to explain the situation to someone who has completely missed the pandemic " rather than engage with an audience who are livi…
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:06AM[SHARE]Friday, March 13, 2020
It wouldn't be fair to just call Freedom Hi 自由閪 a play. A collection of writing and performance by several UK-based Hong
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 6, 2020
Florencia Cordeu's family history is etched on to cassette tapes. An aural (or perhaps oral) history imprinted into plastic and tape, which
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2020
Miriam Battye's London Royal Court debut is a springy, if wobbly, exploration of contemporary womanhood. In an effort to extricate themselves from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AM[SHARE]Friday, January 17, 2020
Julie Tsang's psychological thriller exists in the shadows. As Kevin, a seemingly amiable young repairman, attempts to patch-up the shambling, elderly Li
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 8, 2020
Alexandra Wood's new play is the equivalent of flipping through a family photo album. It's a rush of snapshot moments that layer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 12, 2019
Everyone loves a party. Gary and Nicky are throwing one for Mark at their flat " except Gary's boss, Victoria, has tagged
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Sabrina Mahfouz is quick to undercut A History of Water in the Middle East's affected title. "Highly condensed and highly edited", she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 9, 2019
Samuel Gallet's adaptation of Klaus Mann's 1936 novel tracks the rise of far-right ideology in an unnamed European country through the lens
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:49AM[SHARE]Monday, October 7, 2019
The final part of Bertrand Lesca and Nasi Voutsas' unofficial trilogy " following Eurohouse and Palmyra " once again sees them exploring
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:46AM[SHARE]Monday, September 30, 2019
Birmingham, 1979, and "British music's become a battleground for a race war," Robin French's gig-theatre piece tells us. Denise (a winsome Lauren
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PM[SHARE]Monday, September 23, 2019
The bright yellows soaking Shida's promotional material might lead you to believe that it's a feel-good shot of sunshine in the dank
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Two lost souls meet in an anonymous hotel room. Lucia, an unhappily married businesswoman, has paid Angel, a visually impaired young man,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AM[SHARE]Friday, September 6, 2019
There's magic to be found deep in the bowels of Alexandra Palace. At least, that's what RIFT's production would like you to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:50AM[SHARE]Friday, July 19, 2019
For a play all about relationships, Ryan Craig's Games for Lovers has an astonishing lack of heart. It follows the trials and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AM[SHARE]Monday, July 8, 2019
"It's your actions that make you white, not your skin colour," a character heatedly tells Gabriel Bisset-Smith's Lysander at the climax of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 4, 2019
The power of Brenda Russell, Allee Willis and Stephen Bray's 2004 musical, based on Alice Walker's seminal tale of black womanhood and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2019
Incoming Festival was started by two critics Eleanor Turney and Jake Orr. They tell Ava Wong Davies about supporting mid-career artists, engaging
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AM[SHARE]Monday, June 3, 2019
A streak of pain runs through Simon Stephens' 2004 play. Taking the form of an elliptical series of duologues, Country Music drops
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2019
Emma Hemingford's intriguing debut play sets out to explore traditional heteronormative gender roles through the lens of one couple's relationship. In Flinch,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PM[SHARE] 
