Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonPatrick Hamilton’s melodramatic play is superbly acted and grippingly directed Guardian theatre critic Michael Billington says stage programming seems to b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:28AMThis semi-musical drama about an Asian girl growing up in the Midlands in the 1970s never quite hits its strideAnyone whose parents came from elsewhere will be familiar with the gaps between…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:41AMNorthern Stage, Newcastle upon TyneShakespeare’s tale is relocated to a laundry room in this beautifully designed adaptation directed by Phelim McDermottDirector Phelim McDermott takes put…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:43AMThe Ffwrnes, LlanelliScreens, tyres, a wandering audience and hundreds of plastic chairs besiege this staging of Homer’s epic, told in four separate playsSpace permitting, I intend to ment…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:09AMWest Yorkshire Playhouse, LeedsContext is eradicated and reality shunned in this radical reading of Tennessee Williams’s family drama, saved only by impressive actingTennessee Williams loc…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AMRoyal & Derngate, Northampton Melodrama and anticlimax weaken an often dazzling adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s futuristic classicThis new adaptation of Aldous Huxley’s 1932 satirical …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:01AMRoyal Lyceum theatre, EdinburghDavid Greig captures the spirit of Alasdair Gray’s novel in a visually stunning productionDavid Greig’s adaptation is big, sprawling and (at four hours) lo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:04AMTraverse theatre, Edinburgh There are great performances from these Convent girls let loose in Edinburgh in Lee Hall’s adaptation of the Alan Warner novelStoatin’ performances and a smok…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMEdinburgh International Conference CentreRobert Lepage invites us into his childhood home and life in Quebec via an on-stage memory palace of dazzling shifting perspectivesMemory and forgetf…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMEdinburgh International Conference CentreSimon McBurney impresses with a visceral world of sound that transports his audience from the Amazonian rainforest to his daughter’s bedroomSimon M…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMKilkenny arts festival, IrelandA gender-blind reworking of Shakespeare’s history plays drives home their universality for kings and commoners alike,“This blessed plot, this earth, t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:39AMShakespeare’s Globe, LondonThough full of good things, Simon Godwin’s production shies away from complexityShakespeare’s historical tragedy about the deposition of Richard II by his co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMChichester Festival theatreBig numbers and slapstick form the true beating heart of Chichester’s revival of the 1974 musicalMack & Mabel: the title says equals, the plot says not. This…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:02AMGrosvenor Park Open Air theatre, ChesterThese versatile actors move seamlessly from Toad Hall to tragedyIn theatre, what you see is seldom what you get. For instance, just now, what we see i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:24AMRSC, Stratford-upon-AvonTrevor Nunn’s tech-savvy update reduces this vicious comedy to a slight entertainmentNeon lights, glass-panelled walls, information flashing along an LED strip, mob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54AMNew Vic theatre, Newcastle-under-LymeAn event inspired by a hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure opens with a couple of gemsAt first, I didn’t quite get the makeup of this five-week festival. My …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:15AMThe Octagon, BoltonThe Octagon’s artistic director says goodbye with a fine production of Michael Frayn’s side-splitting farce-within-a-farceIn Russia in 1906, Vsevolod Meyerhold directe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonIqbal Khan’s modern-dress production takes its time but finally delivers a powerful punch, with Iago as its pivot“Your words and performance…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMRoyal & Derngate, NorthamptonThis version of the screenplay that was never made is atmospheric but shows its ageThe idea of the “common man” as tragic hero is central to Arthur Mille…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:36AMKing’s theatre, EdinburghGregor Fisher is the picture of conspicuous consumption in Douglas Maxwell’s hilarious reworking of Roberto Cossa’s playThe small flat above the chip shop is a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03AMUstinov Studio, Theatre Royal BathA mesmerising Gina McKee in the title role helps salvage Florian Zeller’s misogynistic family drama Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:40AMRegent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonSetting Peter Pan in the Somme combines fantasy and wartime horror to powerful effectWhat’s to be gained by reframing JM Barrie’s classic story �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:45AMCrucible theatre, Sheffield; until 6 JuneSimon Reade’s broad-stroke reworking of Jane Austen is watchable if lacking in any real depthExam season is upon us, so here’s a question. One cr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWetherby Whaler, York, and touring until 9 SeptemberMikron’s minimalist study of a British dietary staple is a joy Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMEast Riding theatre, BeverleyJohn Godber and his wife, Jane Thornton, convince in his powerful two-hander about a couple’s struggle with unemployment following the 1984 miners’ strike Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMChurch of the Holy Sepulchre, NorthamptonWhat James Dacre’s sweeping retelling of Shakespeare lacks in drama it makes up for in spectacle Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMEast Riding theatre, BeverleyJohn Godber and his wife, Jane Thornton, convince in his powerful two-hander about a couple’s struggle with unemployment following the 1984 miners’ strikeJoh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMWatermill, NewburyAn atmospheric adaptation of Thomas Hardy’s tortured romance stumbles in its race to the finish Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMÒran Mór, Glasgow Iain Finlay Macleod’s Gaelic updating of Compton Mackenzie’s classic is funny but loses something on the way Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMTricycle, LondonAn intriguing premise fails to find its form in April De Angelis’s play about an artist who would like her 81st birthday to be her last Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:00AMRoyal and Derngate, Northampton Nigel Barrett’s powerful swordsman-poet leads a fine cast in this nuanced yet highly theatrical co-productionCyrano de Bergerac is drawing to the end. What …
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