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Friday, February 1, 2013

London Wall, Finborough, London by Natasha Tripney

Finborough, London: Tricia Thorns' charming and wholly satisfying production of John van Druten's infrequently performed play explores what it was like to be a woman in the workpla…

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Thursday, January 24, 2013

Di and Viv and Rose, Hampstead Theatre, London by Natasha Tripney

Hampstead Theatre, London: Amelia Bullmore's funny and moving play, previously seen in Hampstead's Downstairs Theatre - though with a different cast - is eloquent in its exploratio…

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Saturday, December 29, 2012

Analysis & Opinion: Regional highlights of the year by Natasha Tripney

Natasha Tripney looks back on the regional highlights of the year

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Tuesday, December 18, 2012

The Dance of Death, Trafalgar Studios, London by Natasha Tripney

Trafalgar Studios, London: The second production in the Donmar Warehouse's season of work by young directors at Trafalgar Studios sees Titas Halder tackling August Strindberg's sti…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:04AM
Thursday, December 13, 2012

Midnight's Pumpkin, BAC, London by Natasha Tripney

BAC, London: There are two magnificent balls during Kneehigh's inventive reworking of Cinderella, a narrative device designed to give the mixed-age audience as much time to dance around…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AM
Friday, December 7, 2012

Everyday Maps for Everyday Use, Finborough, London by Natasha Tripney

Finborough, London: Tom Morton-Smith's intriguing play - part of the Papatango New Writing Festival - probes the place where sexual fantasy and reality meet. Read the full review

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AM

Cinderella, Lyric Hammersmith, London by Natasha Tripney

Lyric Hammersmith, London: Joel Horwood and Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's fourth pantomime for the Lyric Hammersmith follows the same formula as previous offerings - which is no bad thing, as …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AM
Thursday, November 29, 2012

Boris Godunov, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon by Natasha Tripney

Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: Michael Boyd's last production for the RSC as artistic director, the second in the company's A World Elsewhere season, makes explicit the link be…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AM
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

The Changeling, Young Vic, London by Natasha Tripney

Young Vic, London: In its move from the Young Vic's Maria Studio to its main house, Joe Hill-Gibbins' operatically excessive production of Middleton and Rowley's tragedy retai…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AM
Tuesday, November 20, 2012

The Promise, Trafalgar Studios, London by Natasha Tripney

Trafalgar Studios, London: The inaugural production of the third Donmar Warehouse showcase of work by young directors sees Alex Sims tackle Aleksei Arbuzov's play about the siege of Len…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AM
Monday, November 19, 2012

Constellations, Duke of York's Theatre, London by Natasha Tripney

Duke of York's Theatre, London: Nick Payne's delicate, searching play - the third Royal Court production to transfer to the West End after Posh and Jumpy - has a fractal quality. Its ce…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AM
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

The Trojan Women, Gate, London by Natasha Tripney

Gate, London: Caroline Bird's powerful new version of Euripides transplants the tragedy to the mother and baby unit of a modern prison hospital, a stark clinical space cut off from the …

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Monday, November 12, 2012

Where The Mangrove Grows, Theatre 503, London by Natasha Tripney

Theatre 503, London: Drawing on his own experience working in a children's psychiatric hospital, Joe Hammond's first play is a fumbled attempt to explore the salve of the imaginati…

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Friday, November 9, 2012

The Orphan of Zhao, Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon by Natasha Tripney

Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: It's difficult to divorce Gregory Doran's production of the play sometimes referred to as the Chinese Hamlet from the controversy that has surrou…

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Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Straight, The Studio, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield by Natasha Tripney

The Studio, Crucible Theatre, Sheffield: DC Moore's new play, an adaptation of a 2009 film called Humpday, by the US writer and director Lynn Shelton, turns out to be as much about male…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM
Tuesday, November 6, 2012

Blackta, Young Vic, London by Natasha Tripney

Young Vic, London: Nathaniel Martello-White's debut play is concerned with more than just the various hurdles faced by black actors; it also encompasses broader themes of race, identity…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:40AM
Friday, November 2, 2012

Khadija is 18, Finborough, London by Natasha Tripney

Finborough, London: Originally discovered via Angle Theatre's Call for Plays campaign, Shamser Sinha's play depicts the lives of two teenage refugees living in London. Khadija is t…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:32PM
Thursday, November 1, 2012

NSFW, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London by Natasha Tripney

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: Lucy Kirkwood's satire on the magazine industry uses a cleaver rather than a scalpel as its tool of dissection. The play is split neatly…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AM
Friday, October 26, 2012

La Fille a la Mode, Theatre Royal Haymarket, London by Natasha Tripney

Theatre Royal Haymarket, London : Performed in the afternoon in the public spaces of the Theatre Royal Haymarket - current home of One Man, Two Guvnors - in its opulent bars and corridors, o…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:18AM
Friday, October 19, 2012

Interviews: On to the next stage by Natasha Tripney

Natasha Tripney catches up with Actors Centre chief executive Louise Coles, as the organisation celebrates a new chapter in its impressive history

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Monday, October 8, 2012

London International Mime Festival 2013 by Natasha Tripney

Featuring work by Devero, Blind Summit and Compagnie 111. The post London International Mime Festival 2013 appeared first on Exeunt Magazine.

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Friday, October 5, 2012

Ding Dong the Wicked, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London by Natasha Tripney

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: Playing in tandem with Love and Information, Caryl Churchill's new short play acts neither as a coda nor a bonus scene to the former, ra…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AM
Thursday, October 4, 2012

Interviews: Strong sense of duty by Natasha Tripney

Natasha Tripney talks to artistic director of Birmingham Rep about leading the company into a new eraThe post Strong sense of duty appeared first on The Stage.

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A Tender Thing, Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon by Natasha Tripney

Swan, Stratford-upon-Avon: Ben Power's delicate reworking of Romeo and Juliet premiered in Newcastle in 2009, the same year as Tom Morris' Juliet and Her Romeo appeared in Bristol.…

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Monday, October 1, 2012

Reviews: A Chorus of Disapproval by Natasha Tripney

Time has not been kind to Alan Ayckbourn's 1984 play A Chorus of Disapproval at the Harold Pinter Theatre. Or at least that's the way it feels in Trevor Nunn's undeniably glossy but stilted…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:39AM

Tanika's Journey, Southwark Playhouse, London by Natasha Tripney

Southwark Playhouse, London: Following its lively BSL production of Love's Labour's Lost at the Globe to Globe festival earlier this year, Deafinitely Theatre's new work tells…

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Monday, September 24, 2012

Reviews: Let It Be by Natasha Tripney

The West End is in no way short on jukebox musicals, but Let It Be, the new "theatrical concert" at the Prince of Wales Theatre, timed to coincide with the Beatles 50th anniversary celebrati…

SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PM
Monday, September 17, 2012

Love and Information, Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London by Natasha Tripney

Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: Caryl Churchill's new play is one of fragments. The play is split into seven segments, each of which is, in turn, divided into a series …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AM
Monday, September 10, 2012

4.48 Psychosis, Drayton Arms, London by Natasha Tripney

Drayton Arms, London: Timidity has no place in this world. Sarah Kane's final play before she committed suicide in 1999 is many things but it is not nice, nor is it gentle. It's a …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AM
Friday, September 7, 2012

Save Me, Union, London by Natasha Tripney

Union, London: After the great summer of Gatsby, the stream of things Fitzgerald-related shows no sign of slowing. Ahead of a Trafalgar Studios transfer for Kelly Burke's one-woman show…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AM
Thursday, September 6, 2012

Brand New Ancients, BAC, London by Natasha Tripney

BAC, London: There's a pulse in the air, palpable, as Kate Tempest circles the stage. For this, her first full length, solo theatre piece - a modern parable cooked up in collaboration w…

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