Salisbury PlayhouseEmmet Byrne is superb in this relocated update of the Spanish classic but it lacks the fire of the original Barney Norris tames Lorca’s Spanish tragedy in this gentle ad…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonFlat insults, bland puns and painful verse let down this staging of Shakespeare’s problematic play, which charges ahead without a trace of satire There is n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:03AMTheatre Royal PlymouthSix characters stalk the stage with boxes in the company’s anniversary show, co-directed by Kathy Burke and Scott Graham I Think We Are Alone marks the 25th anniversa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03PMBirmingham RepThis adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel has all the right intentions but offers cliches instead of real insight This sexual assault drama is entirely void of hope. A tran…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMTaking a break from goofy sitcoms, the actor is sounding the climate-crisis alarm in Caryl Churchill’s Far Away. She talks about finding hope in a violent dystopia ‘You’re in a world i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThe first rule of mime club? You do not talk. Well, not when you’re hard at work. Our writer takes lessons from Marcel Marceau’s former student, Nola Rae Early on in mime school, I hit a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMLeeds PlayhouseImitating the Dog recreate the groundbreaking 1968 horror film live on stage with remarkable results This extraordinary shot-by-shot remake of George Romero’s 1968 cult horr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMRoyal Court, LondonMiriam Battye’s play has some astute insights, but the friendship at its centre doesn’t seem worth fighting for Greta Gerwig’s Lady Bird taught us that love and atte…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMHaving lit many shows in her 15-year career, Prema Mehta took on the challenge of using solely candles at the wood-panelled theatre.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMIn 2019, Told by an Idiot launched the Naomi Wilkinson Award for female stage designers. Winner Ioana Curelea tells Kate Wyver about
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMShoreditch Town Hall, LondonA missed opportunity to satirise modern politics, this show resorts to panto for its obvious parodies and easy laughs We get it: dictators are bad. Roughly assimi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMSoho theatre, LondonEll Potter and Mary Higgins radically push on from previous show Hotter, in this fantastic, sexy, athletic examination of male identity Hilarious, sincere, sexy and bruta…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMNew Diorama theatre, LondonBreach Theatre’s hilariously heretical satire of medieval mystery plays is a celebration of queer voices and a fine alternative Christmas show Breach Theatre wor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMSecret location, LondonIn this immersive show we are promised a globetrotting night of drugs and sex … but are left loitering in a living room The best immersive theatre makes its audience…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36AMPleasance theatre, LondonGroan-worthily unfunny jokes litter this blooper reel of a show about the last people left on Earth The second show of Sink the Pink’s queer Christmas trilogy is m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PMDominion theatre, LondonWith firecracker performance and singalong sounds, this version of the Bing Crosby classic glistens with sexy razzmatazz, but tenderness lies beneath the shiny surfac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMSam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonThe winter of our discontent gets an ungrounded production that even scene-stealing performances by the Globe ensemble can’t make glorious Fickle, brittle he…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42AMThursford Collection, NorfolkA fever-dream of outrageous talent and suffocating joy, this extravaganza must be seen to be believed, albeit just the once I close my eyes and can see only sequ…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12AMTransgressive, intimidating and smeared with ketchup, the performer loves to give audiences more than they’ve bargained for – from an X-rated Jesus to a bare Boudicca Lucy McCormick pull…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AMPleasance, LondonTheir tongues firmly in their cheeks, Figs in Wigs’ boisterous parody ranges from pun-filled comedy skits to cocktail-making in hazmat suits You probably won’t remember…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMUnion theatre, LondonCliche-drenched lyrics and a lightweight storyline put a cork in the emotional reckoning at this unremarkable story’s heart Empty bottles dangle from the ceiling in th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMBoulevard theatre, LondonOn a set that looks like an abandoned attic, four characters sing of love, loss and bears, in Dave Malloy’s unearthly song cycle Working its way through myth, magi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33PMThe Kiln, LondonFor all its good intentions, Anupama Chandrasekhar’s play about patriarchal violence against women in India relies too heavily on shock I want to shed my skin and scoop out…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMTobacco Factory, BristolA party feel in the first half of Elizabeth Freestone’s production slumps like a hangover when Dorothea Myer-Bennett and Geoffrey Lumb are off-stage Dorothea Myer-B…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMBristol Old VicA strong poetic lead and fine support can’t make this meandering new adaptation anything more than a slog ‘That was mercifully short,” one actor jokingly sneers, after t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMLeeds PlayhouseThe murderer is never named in Charley Miles’s furious, funny play about women in Leeds between 1975-80 With a panoramic sense of empathy, Charley Miles’ heated play sees …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMSouthbank Centre, LondonOur era of buffoonish leadership is brilliantly skewered in Forced Entertainment’s mimed maelstrom of aggression Sweaty, sad and stupidly funny, Forced Entertainmen…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMNew Oxford Street, LondonIn an elaborate game of hide and seek, you have to avoid the marauding undead – but the fear and the fun soon fizzle out A hand grabs my ankle and a veiny arm slip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PMBattersea Arts Centre, LondonTalking over each other, getting the audience to choose the ending: Bert and Nasi’s new show may look scrappy but it’s highly relevant Maybe it’s a state-o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMCrucible, SheffieldTobi Bamtefa gives a swaggering, thundering performance as the dictator Idi Amin, but this adaptation of Giles Foden’s novel is stodgy and plodding Swaggering and lumber…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMWiltons Music Hall, London The affecting tale of Jews escaping persecution to find new beginnings in Canada a century ago is a rollicking piece of folk music theatre Old Stock is a pleasantl…
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