Wednesday, April 9, 2025
TRAGEDY WITHOUT A MORAL   Raoul Moat used steroids and bulking-powder to armour himself in muscle, nourished a bottomless well of grievance and self-pity , and imposed his ne…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:08AMSaturday, April 5, 2025
THE DEPTHS BELOW THE WIT   The plays, ever revived, we know well; the wit is often cited, the old injustice of his downfall recreated in plays and films: most recently we…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:30AMThursday, April 3, 2025
VENEZIANA !    Buongiorno to Venice 1730, a city stage topped with the golden winged lion of St Mark, arched and curtained and lit with candelabras . Overhead a twelve-pie…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:43AMTuesday, April 1, 2025
DARK FANGTASY IN A SCAFFOLDING CITY   For this compact and creepy little atmospheric treat, John Donnelly turns to vampires. That’s not a spoiler: the programme is full of lea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 05:59AMThursday, March 27, 2025
BEYOND QATAR…       Two years ago this show was a pleasure – (https://theatrecat.com/2023/06/21/dear-england-olivier-se1/) , and now, on the f…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:14PMWednesday, March 26, 2025
POWER, MAJESTY AND JUSTICE      Very good to see this intense three-hander by Ryan Calais Cameron (who gave us “For Black Boys..†) migrating to Shaftesbur…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46PMFriday, March 21, 2025
THE 1660’s AND ALL THAT:  THEATRE REBORN     Oddly, for theatrecat it’s the second day running of enliveningly energetic female history. After six women …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:03PMA ROUSING RACKET TO HONOUR A LIFE   Mary Wollstonecraft was a pearl of the 18c Age of Reason, even more treasurable for having – as a woman – a harder time of it th…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:19AMTuesday, March 18, 2025
THE UNSERIOUS UNDEAD  “You will be horrified!†The five players announce, “- one way or anotherâ€. And with a flourish they hurl Bram Stoker’s book behi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:27AMThursday, March 13, 2025
A STRANGE WARTIME FABLE OF LIFE, BIRTH AND JEWELLERY  In a little Jeweller’s shop in 1942 Paris Joseph Haffmann is making a deal with his young assistant Pierre.  He is Je…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:41PMSaturday, March 8, 2025
AN ANCIENT BRUTALITY, RIGHT HERE     Five women from the past mount the stage, candlelit, to enact theterrible story of the 17c Suffolk witch-trials.  First there…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:25AMWednesday, March 5, 2025
BRUTAL, VIOLENT AND TENDER   Around a King’s coffin surge personalities and politics , power plays and lineage . A royal bier is loaded with crown and jewelled cross, …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30PMÂ HEROIC STORY, NEAR MISS Â Â It could hardly be a better theme and story for this terrific little theatre, which since its opening has explored the darkness of Nazism and the heroism…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:44AMSaturday, March 1, 2025
A TROUSER-LEG TSUNAMI AND A COATHANGER DREAM     They came off the boats: a Windrush generation, wanting to work and live in cold strange Britain.  In an upper…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:47AMThursday, February 27, 2025
HEART AND HUMOUR, REALPOLITIK AND GOD     This is a wonderful play, all you could want: philosophy, history prefiguring the present moment, humour and character , …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:04PMA RAVE IN MESSINA Get da kids into Shakespeare! The world worries about it. So Jamie Lloyd hits a formula hard to beat with one of the sunniest comedies (only one pretend death). So …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 01:28PMFriday, February 21, 2025
MOTHERHOOD, FOR LIFE     Had there been trigger warnings they might add “extreme nursing†alongside the usual alerts about sickness, death, abortion and conflict.�…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:30AMThursday, February 20, 2025
A THREAT CALLED AGGIE . Good when the news feeds theatre-moments. This week, AI solved in two days a medical conundrum which had baffled humans for a decade. On the other hand,…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:20PMWednesday, February 19, 2025
VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED ON SS ELSINORE Last time the ever-inventive Rupert Goold directed here it was the Merchant of Venice, set in a casino so we could all write “merchant of …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:33PMTuesday, February 18, 2025
RICHARD II     Bridge Theatre, SE1  A THRILLING DANCE AROUND A CROWN    This is one of the most lyrically lovely, metaphorically rich of Shakespeareâ…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:05PMFriday, February 14, 2025
A TRICYCLE MADE FOR THREE?   After Mike Bartlett’s COCK – where one of a gay male couple falls for a girl – I wrote that the poor sap of a hero thinks he he …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:52AMThursday, February 13, 2025
A BRITISH BASTARD STALKS THROUGH HISTORY   What’s to be done about truly awful people: amoral, selfishly irresponsible, arrogant and greedy? A time-honoured Briti…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:05AMTuesday, February 11, 2025
  A GREAT TURNING POINT, CAUGHT IN ASPIC  It is 1942.  Prime minister Churchill has travelled to Moscow to meet Stalin. Each side has a problem at home with voices wanting …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:38PMWILD SHORES IN WARTIME   Risk taking a gap between seeing David Greig plays and you forget how downright louche things are likely to turn out. (I had lately revelled in Prudencia…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36PMMonday, February 10, 2025
A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindraand Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de force. Ea…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:41AMThursday, February 6, 2025
   ABSURDITY AND SUBLIMITY After the glorious Parisian detail of the revived Rigoletto here , Johannes Schutz’ spare bland box with only four flat doors is an opposi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:56AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
A FEMALE EVOLUTION, FRANK AND FINE First salute the cast: Deborah Findlay, Romola Garai, Gina McKee, Anjli Mohindra and Harmony Rose-Bremner, for an unpretentiously powerful tour de …
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:42PMTuesday, January 28, 2025
FUNNY ABOUT THE UNFUNNY     Billy Bash,  rated the third most offensive comedian in Britain, was once the dominant partner in Biddle and Bash. He’s still o…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:36PMThursday, January 23, 2025
A DARKER THOMAS CROMWELL     Edward Bennett as Thomas Cromwell is a proper thug: everyone’s memory of the HR-outplacement weasel who starts the sacking mee…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 09:05AMSaturday, January 18, 2025
 SUBURBAN ANGST IN THE NEW SA There’s nothing like a tight, awkward comedy of neighbourhood strife, where neighbourly differences reveal unexpected fissures within the couples, and…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:46AMFriday, January 17, 2025
AT THE SUMMIT OF RAGE AND HOPE     Fear not, this isn’t a Greta-gloom lecture but a lively, imaginative, borderline wild reconstruction of the years cul…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:28AM 
