Despite its cheesy title, Brian Friel’s Afterplay is a sensitively written character study that imagines a meeting of two characters from Chekhov’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AMCompiling three thematically overlapping pieces from Alan Bennett’s perennially popular series, director Brigid Larmour’s selection of Talking Heads makes for a quiet
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMExploring the knotty relationship between religious faith and sexuality, The Mikvah Project is an honest if somewhat haphazardly-written look at love, infatuation
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMPublished in 1959, Günter Grass’ dark, dream-like debut novel The Tin Drum ruminated on the rise of fascism and the personal obsessions
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:02AMKicking off a bold 20th anniversary season at the Arcola Theatre, The Cutting Edge is a meandering meditation on art, class and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:04AMPortentous images loom out of the darkness in the opening moments of Douglas Rintoul’s moody, muddled Macbeth. A child flies a kite.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AMBleak, tender and shot through with stinging black humour, Flights is a meandering but intricately written meditation on the joyful recklessness of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:30AMMemories can either comfort or torment us. Samuel Beckett’s fascination with the ways we distort, betray and cling to our past experiences
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMNo two people experience the world in precisely the same way, an ominously crackling projection declares in the opening moments of Sarah
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMChronicling the infamous, disaster-stricken 1914 attempt to cross Antarctica, Shackleton and his Stowaway is an uneven historical drama from author Andy Dickinson.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMNo text, no props, one light. Performance artist Thomas Monckton laid down some provocatively stringent parameters to frame his 2017 solo show
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMMischief Theatre’s accessible brand of slick, silly slapstick has made it an indisputable phenomenon, with the company putting successful TV spots, multiple
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMDownbeat and often devastatingly insightful, Snowflake is a heartfelt Christmas-time drama taking its title from the recently-coined term used to belittle anyone
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWriter and director Ciaran McConville’s high-adventure adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s melancholic parable The Snow Queen certainly widens the story’s scope, but
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMPowered along by a blazingly charismatic actor-musician ensemble, Aladdin is the latest in a string of annual rock‘n’roll pantos from Peter Rowe,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMThere is a fine line between maintaining fondly remembered traditions and rehashing a tired format. Marking the Wolverhampton Grand Theatre’s 125th anniversary,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AMIn 1972, the world chess championship became a proxy battlefront in the rumbling belligerence of the cold war. Recounting the gruelling, 21-game
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMEnthusiastically performed but infused with gentleness, Goldilocks and the Three Musketeers is a charmingly creaky Christmas show with an endearingly home-made feel.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMIn some ways, little has changed since West Side Story – the perennially popular musical from Arthur Laurents, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:11AMWhen a pair of ragged, decades-old dolls are anonymously delivered to the home of a respected author, they trigger a flood of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:11AMOscar Wilde’s gothic satire The Canterville Ghost gets a breezy, family-friendly adaptation from author Anthony Weigh, with the macabre meditations on mortality
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AMUnapologetically adhering to a well-established festive romcom template, The Season is a warm-hearted new musical from promising writing partnership Jim Barne and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:45AMBright, light and meandering, Toby Hulse’s Puss in Boots is a cheerful trad pantomime weighed down by a few too many ideas.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMTelling a familiar tale of sex, betrayal, and teenage anxiety, Easy is an engaging monologue from emerging playwright Amy Blakelock. The story
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMReworking Mary Shelley’s seminal work of gothic sci-fi for the digital age, the National Youth Theatre’s Frankenstein explores the line between artificial
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMServing lengthy prison sentences, three young men attend parenting classes in preparation for a return to the outside world. Samuel Bailey’s first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:43AMIn a letter to a fellow physicist, Einstein once famously claimed that God does not play dice with the universe. The question
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMKicking off this year’s National Youth Theatre REP season, Neil Bartlett’s take on Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations is an engaging if unadventurous adaptation.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AMIt’s a bleak indictment of the times when a wordless, 90-minute clown brawl feels like an apt metaphor for any number of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMOne of Chekhov’s earliest, lesser-known works, bleak domestic drama Ivanov gets a sharply insightful treatment by Moscow-based company Theatre of Nations. It’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMTelling the story of a buffoonish liar swindling those he should be serving, Richard Bean’s One Man, Two Guvnors – adapted from
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