Thursday, August 17, 2017
Shakespeare’s Globe, London On a stripped-back stage, Nancy Meckler’s production locates Lear in a world of deprivation, broken family relationships and bubbling anger‘No disco-dancing…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48AMTuesday, August 15, 2017
Dorfman, London Rob Drummond presents us with questions such as whether violence is a legitimate weapon of political protest but there’s not enough room for real debateVoting is becoming t…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:06AMSunday, August 13, 2017
King’s theatre, EdinburghAlan Ayckbourn’s Handmaid’s Tale-esque projection of a plague-ravaged future contains many nice ironies and performances, but strains patience over its six hou…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:18AMFriday, August 11, 2017
Ustinov Studio, BathHenry Goodman is utterly convincing in Alan Franks’ one-man play about Lucian Freud, with stories of his models, from the Krays to the QueenA solo play about a painter …
Linked From The Guardian at 08:12AMWednesday, August 9, 2017
Traverse, EdinburghDomestic friction and a guilty history set the scene for powerful performances in Douglas Maxwell’s new playSubtlety is not the prime asset of Douglas Maxwell’s new pl…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:36AMTuesday, August 8, 2017
Albert Finney sobbed like an animal, Harold Pinter ramped up the terror and John Hurt even resembled Beckett himself. Now, at the Edinburgh festival, Barry McGovern takes on the role that ne…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:54AMMonday, August 7, 2017
The Scottish playwright’s take on an Ionesco classic comes with added festival gags, while her drama Meet Me at Dawn looks at the difficulty of letting goThree works by the Scottish dramat…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMSunday, August 6, 2017
Church Hill theatre, Edinburgh Two boys endure stormy seas and slave labour as they journey from Kabul to London this highly imaginative productionHow do you begin to recreate the refugee ex…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:04AMFriday, August 4, 2017
Trafalgar Studios, LondonThe West Wing and Grease star takes the lead in this revival of Alexi Kaye Campbell’s play, but is let down by unresolved contradictionsStockard Channing, star of …
Linked From The Guardian at 07:33AMWednesday, August 2, 2017
Garrick, LondonNeal Foster has created a gentle, genial show based on the bestselling book about a boy and his gran joining forces for a heist at the Tower of LondonDavid Walliams bounced on…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:12AMA theatrical adaptation of the Hitchcock classic finds clever ways to rework film techniques – and is the latest example of how the screen is influencing the stageHollywood in its infancy …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:32AMSunday, July 30, 2017
Royal Court, LondonLemn Sissay stars in a revival of Jim Cartwright’s 1986 account of a community scarred by unemployment that couldn’t be more relevant or rousingJim Cartwright’s play…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:36AMFriday, July 28, 2017
Finborough theatre, LondonCicely Hamilton’s feminist play from 1911, exposing the plight of women forced to use marriage to gain their independence, is full of attackCicely Hamilton (1872-…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMThursday, July 27, 2017
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonWith the help of a vibrant ensemble, Luke Sheppard tells the earnest diarist’s much-loved story with wit, craft and crackling Cuban dance numbersSurprisingl…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:18AMWednesday, July 26, 2017
Old Vic, LondonA superb cast use Bob’s back catalogue to glorious effect in Conor McPherson’s astonishing cross-section of hope and stoic suffering in Depression-era MinnesotaThis is the…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:48PMDorfman, LondonOlivias Williams and Colman give a spellbinding account of sibling strife in this wonderfully ambitious play set during the Higgs boson breakthroughLucy Kirkwood has proved, w…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:48AMTuesday, July 25, 2017
Novello, LondonWhat difference does it make that Tennessee Williams's play is performed by a black cast in Debbie Allen's Broadway production? It undoubtedly gives the work a new dynamic. Bu…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMApollo, LondonBenedict Andrews’s radical update of the classic delivers emotional intensity shot through with humour – and a blistering performance by Jack O’ConnellThis is a classic e…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06AMMonday, July 24, 2017
The Globe’s new artistic director may have little directing experience. But as an actor, she had a huge range, a fierce intelligence and a profound understanding of Shakespeare’s languag…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:04AMSunday, July 23, 2017
Minerva Theatre, ChichesterDeborah Bruce’s play follows the fallout of a friendship between a young boy and an autistic, eccentric hoarder as police, press and property hunters prey on the…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:04AMSaturday, July 22, 2017
Duke of York's, LondonIt's a well-known fact that Peter Nichols's play, which first appeared in 1981, forms part of an unofficial trinity of dramas about infidelity: it came after Pinter's B…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:04AMFriday, July 21, 2017
Mick Lally theatre, Galway Mark O’Rowe’s three-hander turns the Irish idyll into a seething mass of lust, junkies, pimps and wimpy husbandsDramatists from JM Synge to Martin McDonagh hav…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, July 20, 2017
Black Box, GalwayThe anguish and torment of Büchner’s tragedy and Schubert’s song cycle Winterreise are fused to brilliant effect in this pioneering piece of music-theatre Georg Büchne…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, LondonOliver Cotton’s explosive new play explores wealth and morality as a luxurious dinner party is interrupted by an intruderOliver Cotton is not afraid to tackle bi…
Linked From The Guardian at 06:42AMTuesday, July 18, 2017
Park theatre, LondonIn his final play, which takes place over three summers, Elyot explores passions and pressures before and after the decriminalisation of homosexuality Related: Kevin Elyo…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, July 17, 2017
Young Vic Studio, London Rating: **Sam Shepard was once regarded as the quintessential American playwright. But, on the evidence of the recent revival of the rambling A Lie of the Mind and t…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:06PMFriday, July 14, 2017
Regent’s Park Open Air theatre, LondonCharles Dickens’ 1859 novel simply does not lend itself to a modern-day reinterpretation featuring border police and demonstrationsIt is part of the…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMWednesday, July 12, 2017
Royal Court, LondonThis family drama confronts a host of dilemmas but is at its best when it allows a fine cast to express the characters’ strained relationshipsVivienne Franzmann has in t…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:33AMTuesday, July 11, 2017
Theatre Royal Haymarket, LondonHelen Edmundson’s account of the power struggle between the pious monarch and her ambitious friend Sarah Churchill is a rousing hymn to female agencyRomola G…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:06AMMonday, July 10, 2017
It’s true that plays often defy instant analysis but Mamet’s attempt to prevent post-show discussions perpetuates the notion of theatre as a sanctified templeIt would be easy to mock Dav…
Linked From The Guardian at 09:54AMSunday, July 9, 2017
Home, ManchesterThe Homeland star impresses in Thomas Ostermeier’s engrossing staging of a memoir about political change and the left’s disregard of the working classThe title suggests a…
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