Monday, March 16, 2020
Inspired by Paul Gauguin’s time in Tahiti, Tom Littler’s streamlined staging of The Tempest maroons its characters on an island in the
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As a playful Brechtian parable, Theatre Centre’s The Border wears its serious side lightly as knockabout cartoon-style antics break out into an
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In James Corley’s debut play World’s End, global events and intimate histories collide to create a deeply affecting queer love story from
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Describing what happens after a drunken one-night stand between two first-year students at an Ivy League university, Anna Ziegler’s Actually assesses the
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Best known for his 1980 book A People’s History of the United States, historian Howard Zinn was a lifelong civil rights activist.
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When Instagram superstar and ‘influencer’ Wes buys up a disused building in New Orleans’ French Quarter to be the headquarters of his
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Attitudes to – and the availability of – hardcore pornography may have changed since Anthony Neilson’s The Censor opened at London’s Royal
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Veteran Russian director Lev Dodin’s acutely perceptive retelling of Chekhov’s Three Sisters ditches lavish staging to focus on its essential themes of
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Recently named a ‘living legend’, Pamela Howard has created countless shows in her six-decade career, as well as training many of the
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Not performed in London for 35 years, Athol Fugard’s A Lesson from Aloes evokes the repressive atmosphere of 1960s South Africa and
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No detail in the Norwegian Ibsen company’s staging of The Lady from the Sea is left to chance. In this bilingual version,
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With its eclectic score and bittersweet seasonal message, Striking 12 interweaves Hans Christian Andersen’s The Little Match Girl with a tale of
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Pitch-black and wickedly funny, Jermyn Street Theatre’s seasonal offering Burke and Hare (first performed at the Watermill earlier this year) is a
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With its compelling portrait of a ‘superfluous man’, Mikhail Lermontov’s novel 1840 A Hero of Our Time depicts a listless, resting soldier
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As a cloud-like parachute billows above a room strewn with knick-knacks and suffused with memories (a superb design from Daisy Blower), a
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Marking 30 years since the introduction of Section 28 – the law that banned the “promotion of homosexuality” in UK schools –
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Now same-sex marriage is legal, is the struggle for LGBT+ equality over? Has the gay community lost its reason for being in
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Fresh out of drama school, Joseph Dawson and James Meteyard decided to set up their own company and before long they were
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Comprising numbers from New York songwriter John Bucchino’s extensive back catalogue, It’s Only Life is less a jukebox musical than a mosaic
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Charts festoon the walls of Jody’s Maps, the sleepy shop where Steven Dietz’s Lonely Planet follows the oddball friendship of two discreetly
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While Simon Longman’s Gundog at London’s Royal Court earlier this year depicted two sisters struggling to keep a family farm afloat, his
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Royal Central School of Speech and Drama principal Gavin Henderson is facing calls to resign over his controversial views on diversity quotas.
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Written in the 1950s and banned until after the author’s death, Vasily Grossman’s autobiographical epic Life and Fate surveys the horrors in
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With its narrator crawling through endless mud as he reflects on his memories and existence, Samuel Beckett’s experimental novel How It Is
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Channelling PG Wodehouse and Boy’s Own adventures, Cream Tea and Incest is an eccentric farrago that, like its off-colour title, proves an
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Race and class prejudice loom large in Adrian Hope and Cassie McFarlane’s engaging Mad As Hell. While the stage adaptation of Paddy
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A dishevelled, basement-dwelling misanthrope spouts bile in his video diary in The Ungrateful Biped, writer and performer Philip Goodhew’s update of Dostoyevsky’s
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Inspired, erratic and bewildering in equal measure, Ken Campbell was a mischievous master of experimental theatre who became notorious for his marathon
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Tightly packed and highly ambitious, Callisto: A Queer Epic weaves together four heterogeneous stories of same-sex relationships from across the ages: 17th-century
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Jerome K Jerome’s name is indelibly linked to the uproarious Three Men in a Boat, but his 1908 play The Passing of
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Based on the 1947 radio broadcast of the much-loved American classic, the Bridge House Theatre’s Miracle on 34th Street is a super-sweet
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