Monday, June 3, 2019
Kate Budgen’s production of Oscar Wilde’s evergreen comedy The Importance of Being Earnest is one of warmth and laughter – a chance
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Hal Chambers’ fresh, contemporary and pacy staging of Shakespeare’s play of pageantry and patriotism takes a hard look at the ugliness of
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In The Reality, a one-woman, two-character play by Uruguayan playwright Denise Despeyroux, Maite Jáuregui plays identical twin sisters. One appears live on
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Written at the height of the suffrage movement in 1913, St John Ervine’s Jane Clegg contains echoes of Ibsen’s A Doll’s House.
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In 1901, when Anna Edson Taylor, a widowed 60-something teacher on the brink of destitution, became the first person to go over
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Few shows can be more highly gendered than The Marvelous Wonderettes, The design, by Emily Bestow, is ultra-feminine: the four young female
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Inspired by an 18th-century ballad, the titular Maggie May in Lionel Bart’s 1964 Liverpool-set musical is the archetypal dockside ‘brass’ with a
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Phil Willmott’s elegant production relocates Shakespeare’s play to the Edwardian British Raj and makes Othello a conflicted collaborator in the British army.
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Jack Cole might not be the best remembered choreographer from Hollywood’s golden age, but he was an innovator in his day. He
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In terms of its subject matter, George and Ira Gershwin’s musical satire Strike Up the Band is as cheesy as it gets.
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In the mid-nineteenth century, the site occupied by Battersea Arts Centre was the home of Wandsworth and national heroine Jane ‘Jeanie’ Nassau
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Aimee Stuart was one of many critically and commercially successful female interwar playwrights who have since been forgotten. Her 1940 romantic comedy
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Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without an adaptation of a much-loved literary classic or two. Private Eye journalist Rachael Claye’s adaptation of Louisa
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With Sybil Thorndike as its patron, Leatherhead was once home to a thriving repertory theatre, but has since struggled to rebuild its identity.
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The centenary of the end of the First World War offers the ideal opportunity to look at this period of history from
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Writer/director Katharine Armitage’s adaptation of Frankenstein – a site-specific promenade but not all that immersive production in spite of being billed
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James Purdy isn’t amongst the better-known figures of 20th-century American literature but his work was highly esteemed by Dorothy Parker, Tennessee Williams,
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In Hal Coase’s adaptation of Virginia Woolf’s 1925 novel, post-First World War London is full of noises and voices, as evoked by
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“I come from the people, they need to adore me / So Christian Dior me” demands Eva Peron as her publicity team
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The Victorians aren’t usually renowned for brevity. These three comediettas (A Winning Hazard, Allow Me to Apologise and Orange Blossoms) by J.P.
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Not to be confused with Dora Carrington, the Surrealist painter and writer Leonora Carrington’s life was as rich in creative energy and
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Sheridan Morley once remarked that future productions of Jim Cartwright’s 1992 play The Rise and Fall of Little Voice could never be
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Tapping into the Victorian fascination with speed, time and travel, Jules Verne’s much-adapted novel Around the World in 80 Days tells the
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Abigail Hood’s play Spiral takes place against a jagged promenade in an anonymous seaside town. The seedy associations of such a milieu
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An astringent, pressure cooker production: Julia Burbach directs a clear and compelling opera at Dalston's Grimeborn Festival.
The post Review: The Rape of Lucretia at the Arcola Theatre app…
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The heroine of William Gibson’s 1958 play Two for the Seesaw, struggling Bronx dancer Gittel Moskowitz, is archetypally Shirley MacLaine (who played
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It’s the law of theatre that if there’s a gun on stage it will go off before the play ends. In Robert
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Samuel Pepys described Margaret Cavendish as “a mad, conceited, ridiculous woman.” She was certainly an unusual woman for the 17th century, or
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Amongst the forgotten stories of the First World War, those of the soldiers executed for desertion must be some of the most
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Iris Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s final play The Tempest takes the form of a gentle promenade in which the audience is seated
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Whilst the cast of the current West End production of Tartuffe perform in a mixture of English and French, the bilingual Exchange
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