Friday, December 14, 2012
’Tis the season to be jolly. ’Tis also the season to dust off the stories of the Grimms and Perrault and present them as drama, sometimes transmogrified into panto. There are sometimes a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:46AMThursday, December 6, 2012
Woking and Mars both provide subject matter for cartographers. John, who reckons he’s an achiever, is updating the local A to Z, while Behrooz, once a colleague of John’s, is exhibiting …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:34PMHampstead Theatre, London: It is a delicious premise - a woman, no longer young, finds the courage to be herself after years spent fulfilling the requirements of others. Jenny Joseph's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMFriday, November 16, 2012
Almeida Theatre, London: Lyric poetry - unlike the performance kind - is private, internal. It is the opposite of drama. A poet's life, can, of course, be dramatic, but telling a writer…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AMSaturday, November 10, 2012
This is a short play, but not a sweet one. Nevertheless, the ban on under-16s and the warning that it “contains themes that some audience members may find distressing” seems unnecessary …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:05PMTuesday, October 9, 2012
Lyric Hammersmith, London: "Purdy" - the idiomatic word glints repeatedly through O'Neill's 1924 play, which takes its central idea - an adulterous affair between a beaut…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMWednesday, October 3, 2012
Donmar Warehouse, London: Racine's 17th century rhyming couplets are often pronounced untranslatable. Our ears are more tuned to the five-stress pentameters of blank verse than 12-sylla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMFriday, September 28, 2012
September 24-October 27: There is much ado indeed in this energetic production with its vivid colours, music, dance and teeming communal hubbub. Iqbal Khan has set the action in present-day …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMWednesday, September 5, 2012
Old Rep, Birmingham: It is tempting but pointless to adopt a trainspotter's approach to Calixto Bieito's Catalan-English Shakespearian collage. Here are gobbets of As You Like It, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMThursday, August 9, 2012
Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Placed between the comedies and tragedies in the First Folio, Troilus and Cressida has always defied categorisation beyond the unhelpful 'problem play…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMThursday, June 21, 2012
Gate Theatre Notting Hill, London: The text-programme for The Prophet helpfully lists bloggers and tweeters as a means of keeping up with swiftly changing Egyptian politics. Despite being se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:29AMFriday, June 8, 2012
Theatre 503, London: Vincent works in an abattoir. A young man in his community is killed. By the end of Jimmy Osborne's play, the interconnectedness of these two facts has been rammed …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:41AMThursday, May 31, 2012
Olivier, National Theatre, London: The head of state and assorted generals and apparatchiks cluster round a screen much as Obama and his staff did to watch the death of Osama bin Laden. But …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Theatre Royal, Brighton: This was an exemplary festival event. First, it provided an enjoyable mix of star glamour (Vanessa Redgrave, its guest director) and local talent (the young Brighton…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMFriday, May 11, 2012
Jermyn Street, London: Adam is both son and mother to Mammles whom he tends - as he has for 15 years - in the cluttered attic of their home. She is bed-ridden, crippled with arthritis. He is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMTuesday, March 27, 2012
New Victoria Theatre, Woking: Meeting Sharon, Tracey and Dorien again is a bit like encountering distant relatives after a gap of more than a decade. Will they have changed much? Will they b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AMThursday, March 15, 2012
Cottesloe, National, London: This beautiful play set in post-war Trinidad won Errol John the newly-inaugurated Observer award for an undiscovered playwright in 1957. It was produced the foll…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMThursday, March 8, 2012
Hampstead Theatre, London: Richard Nelson has set himself quite a task in writing a play about Harley Granville-Barker. Not only is his subject revered by modern directors and theatre histor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThursday, March 1, 2012
Bush Theatre, London: Uncertainty is the keynote of Ishy Din's first full-length play, the last of Josie Rourke's programming here before her departure for the Donmar.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:53AMFriday, February 17, 2012
Lyric Hammersmith, London: Puck's beautiful speech at the end of the play, beginning "If we shadows have offended", comes as something of a surprise. Not because it is deliver…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:09AMThursday, May 5, 2011
The Print Room, London: This buzzing new 80-seat venue in Notting Hill is celebrating the centenary of Tennessee Williams's birth with this late, lesser-known melodrama. Full of William…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AM 
