Monday, November 19, 2012
The Courtyard Theatre, London: Memories play tricks on you, at least the ones do in Pericles Snowdon's surreal whodunnit. The Cat's Mother sees Snowdon entering the alluring realm …
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Honor Bayes talks to Howard Barker about his 'theatre of catastrophe'
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMFriday, November 9, 2012
The Print Room, London: Howard Barker wants theatre to be an ordeal but this polished production by Robyn Winfield-Smith is anything but. Director Robyn Winfield-Smith encases Barker's …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMThursday, November 8, 2012
Camden People's Theatre, London: Devised shows based around family memories sometimes fall into the trap of being manipulative, but not Cooking Ghosts. Beady Eye has once again created an em…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:50AMMonday, November 5, 2012
Arcola Theatre, London: A popular contemporary subject, combat stress has never been placed so clearly within a societal context as in Kristiana Colon's moving play but I cd only whispe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMFriday, October 26, 2012
Hampstead Theatre Studio, London: At a time when journalists are thought as untrustworthy as politicians Blue Sky's premise feels idealised - an investigative journalist doing whatever …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMMonday, October 22, 2012
Arts Depot, London: Hot from a successful worldwide tour, Frantic Assembly and National Theatre of Scotland's Beautiful Burnout is back and it's pulling no punches.
Read the full r…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:59AMThe Rose, London: The adage 'show, don't tell' - a precautionary note designed to stop writers from relying solely on description - could be put to good use here. David Weinbe…
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St Saviours Church, London: To the grisly sound of bones crunching and dirt being clawed away, Timothy Allsop's Richard rises from a grave scattered with papers. So begins Allsop and Ca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:04PMMonday, October 15, 2012
Trafalgar Studios 2, London: As some politicians know only too well, sometimes it's only when we are recorded unawares that the truth becomes apparent. But in Stephen Belber's Tape…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMMonday, October 8, 2012
The Duke of Hamilton, London: Sitting in the low ceilinged theatre under the Duke of Hamilton pub, it's easy to feel the same sense of entrapment that plagued John Merrick.
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SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMMonday, October 1, 2012
Tara Arts Theatre, London: What a perfect time to revive Moliere's The Miser, a satirical comedy of manners inviting us to laugh at the money-pinching rich. Indeed the austere Harjinder…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMThursday, September 27, 2012
New Diorama, London: Incomplete at the time of his death, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck has been posthumously finished and edited by authors ever since - The Woyzeck is Sebastian Rex's s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMFriday, September 21, 2012
Artsdepot, London: Inspired by the Henry David Thoreau quote "Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves," aerialist theatre company Ockham's Razor's new show, N…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:07AMThursday, September 13, 2012
The White Bear Theatre, London: Owen Horsley's electric production of The Duchess of Malfi peels the skin off John Webster's play to reveal the smiling skull beneath. Horsley perfo…
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Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Camille O'Sullivan stands as both perpetrator and victim in Lucrece's bloody chamber. She is a chameleon, able to shift from masculine to feminine with t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMWednesday, July 4, 2012
Actor's Church, London: Since they took over the idyllic garden of St Paul's Church in 2009 Iris Theatre Company have proven themselves to be masterful Shakespearean promenaders. This y…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:51AMFriday, June 15, 2012
Drayton Arms Theatre, London: Nipping in early to whet the appetite before the Globe's star-heavy Twelfth Night, the Drayton Arms Theatre opens its doors with Shakespeare's mischie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMTuesday, June 12, 2012
The Rose, Bankside, London: Entering the Rose Theatre is usually atmospheric enough, but this is thoroughly romantic as you are seduced with the smell of sweet incense and the sight of delic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMFriday, May 25, 2012
Southwark Playhouse, London: Do you own a donor card? Even in our secular society the question of donating one's organs after death, of carving up the body, causes some people moral ang…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMTuesday, May 8, 2012
Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London: While the big boys are wowing us with the World Shakespeare Festival and Globe to Globe, it's great to see smaller venues doing the Bard proud too. Rae…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMMonday, April 23, 2012
Young Vic, London: Translated into 36 languages Jung Chang's autobiographical Wild Swans is a suitably cosmopolitan opening to World Stages London. Sacha Wares' panoramic productio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:14AMWednesday, April 18, 2012
House of Detention, London: Belt Up score a blinder with their choice of location for Macbeth. The House of Detention in Clerkenwell is a dripping maze of low arched corridors and chambers t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:01PMMonday, April 16, 2012
Southwark Playhouse, London: With a cast made up of RSC ensemble members and RADA graduates, the pedigree of this production of Black Battles with Dogs cannot be denied. Frustrating, then, t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AMMonday, March 26, 2012
Barons Court Theatre, London: Ronald Selwyn Phillips' much lauded adaptation of Oscar Wilde's absurd short story is given a disappointing revival in Nadine Hanwell's flat-foot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Union Theatre, London: Written in 1966, Roger Milner's screwball comedy How's The World Treating You? makes an amiable comeback at the Union Theatre. It's an odd play but none…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMMonday, March 5, 2012
The Rose, Bankside: It's heartening when you speak to the volunteers running The Rose. Their enthusiasm for the potential of this space is justified in the jolt you get when it is used …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMFriday, February 17, 2012
The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London: Ostensibly a black comedy, A Russian Play is actually rather like the stand-up gig you long to forget - you know the one, where you like the comedians b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:55AMWednesday, February 15, 2012
Cutesy productions full of sentiment and charm seem like they're everywhere right now. I'm not sure I can cope with another ukuleleCall me a grump, but I'm getting a little fed up of "enchan…
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