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Thursday, September 25, 2014

The Love and Devotion of Ridley Smith , Old Red Lion, London by Natasha Tripney

Old Red Lion, London: Miran Hadzic's play begins promisingly enough. Ridley Smith is a sharply suited businessman, whose increasing disillusionment with his life and job is intensified …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:59AM
Wednesday, September 24, 2014

Woman of Flowers , Pleasance, London by Natasha Tripney

Pleasance, London: Kaite O'Reilly's play for Forest Forge takes elements of ancient Welsh myth and splices them with something more contemporary and sinister. Rose is a young deaf …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AM
Wednesday, September 17, 2014

Ballyturk , Lyttelton, National, London by Natasha Tripney

Lyttelton, National, London: Following their collaboration on the intense Misterman, Enda Walsh joins forces once again with Cillian Murphy in a play that sees them dancing and darting acros…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AM
Tuesday, September 16, 2014

The Wolf from the Door , Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London by Natasha Tripney

Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: Rory Mullarkey's tricky new play contains passages which are rallying, angry and necessary, but it also seems wedded to an absurdist mode …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AM
Friday, September 5, 2014

The Comedy of Errors , Shakespeare's Globe, London by Natasha Tripney

Shakespeare's Globe, London: Blanche McIntyre makes her Globe debut with an energetic and entertaining production of Shakespeare's early comedy. It takes a while to warm up, admittedly,…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:24AM
Thursday, September 4, 2014

Little Revolution , Almeida, London by Natasha Tripney

Almeida, London: Set during the fire and fury of the 2011 London riots, Alecky Blythe's latest verbatim play attempts to unpack the social tensions that drove people to take to the stre…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AM
Monday, July 28, 2014

A Bright Room Called Day , Southwark Playhouse, London by Natasha Tripney

Southwark Playhouse, London: Set in Germany in the early 1930s, Tony Kushner's play depicts the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler through the filter of Reagan's Am…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AM
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Shakespeare in Love , Noel Coward Theatre, London by Natasha Tripney

Noel Coward Theatre, London: Declan Donnellan's stage adaptation of the Oscar-laden 1998 film - in which Judi Dench famously acquired a best supporting actress award for her eight-minut…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AM
Wednesday, July 23, 2014

The Two Gentlemen of Verona , Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon by Natasha Tripney

Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a play of experiment - it's the work of a writer finding his voice and in it you can see familiar themes a…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AM
Monday, July 21, 2014

Son of Man , Crypt of the Museum of the Order of St John, London by Natasha Tripney

Crypt of the Museum of the Order of St John, London: The space has a power of its own for this intense passion play, performed in an atmospheric historic setting. The 12th-century vaulted cr…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AM
Friday, July 11, 2014

Perseverance Drive , Bush Theatre, London by Natasha Tripney

Bush Theatre, London: Actor and playwright Robin Soans is perhaps best known for his verbatim work, including plays like the Arab-Israeli Cookbook and Talking to Terrorists. Here he wades in…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AM
Friday, July 4, 2014

Dumbstruck , Battersea Arts Centre, London by Natasha Tripney

Battersea Arts Centre, London: Devised by Fine Chisel, a Bristol-based company of actor-musicians, this layered, idea-rich show, a Fringe First-winner, weaves together a number of stories in…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM
Wednesday, July 2, 2014

Wonderland , Hampstead, London by Natasha Tripney

Hampstead, London: The set for the Hampstead Theatre production of Beth Steel's second play, which takes place during the years of the 1980s miners' strike, is truly transporting. …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:15AM
Friday, June 27, 2014

The Notebook , Battersea Arts Centre, London by Natasha Tripney

Battersea Arts Centre, London: This is the first time in its 30-year history that Forced Entertainment has adapted a novel for the stage - and the results are both relentless and hypnotic. R…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AM
Tuesday, June 24, 2014

The Valley of Astonishment , Young Vic, London by Natasha Tripney

Young Vic, London: Inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks, this new production co-written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne sees them revisiting the terrain of the human mi…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM
Monday, June 23, 2014

Midsummer Mischief , The Other Place, Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon by Natasha Tripney

The Other Place, Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon: To mark the 40th anniversary of The Other Place, the RSC is staging a festival of new writing by women designed to chime with the Roaring Gir…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AM
Friday, June 6, 2014

An Interview with Gaddafi , Waterloo East, London by Natasha Tripney

Waterloo East, London: Written by author and 'political philosopher,' Reggie Adams, An Interview with Gaddafi invites its audience to question the way the regime change in Libya, a…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AM
Thursday, June 5, 2014

Intimate Apparel , Ustinov Studio, Bath by Natasha Tripney

Ustinov Studio, Bath: The Ustinov Studio's third season of contemporary American theatre concludes with the UK premiere of a 2003 play by Lynn Nottage, who would go on to win the Pulitz…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM
Monday, June 2, 2014

Between Us, Arcola Theatre, London by Natasha Tripney

Arcola Theatre, London: This new play by Sarah Daniels, <a href="https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on" target=_blank>receiving its world premiere at the Arcola</a>, b…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AM
Thursday, May 29, 2014

Don't like poetry? Try this epic about a beer-drinking god who loves to party by Natasha Tripney

Inspired by the mischievous mythical figure of John Barleycorn, Tristan Bernays explores what it means to be English in his solo show The Bread and the BeerJohn Barleycorn has beer in his bl…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:28AM
Wednesday, May 28, 2014

How Francesca Millican-Slater turned her flat into a history play by Natasha Tripney

The Birmingham playwright's new work The Forensics of a Flat (and Other Stories) is a love affair with her home and its pastFrancesca Millican-Slater likes to unpick the history of things. H…

SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AM

Dealer's Choice, Royal and Derngate, Northampton by Natasha Tripney

Royal and Derngate, Northampton: James Dacre's inaugural season as artistic director at the Royal and Derngate continues with its strongest production to date, a revival of Patrick Marb…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AM
Tuesday, May 27, 2014

Johnny Got His Gun, Southwark Playhouse, London by Natasha Tripney

Southwark Playhouse, London: David Mercatali, having recently directed the feverish monologue Dark Vanilla Jungle, again directs an intense solo show: the UK premiere of this adaptation of D…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AM
Monday, May 19, 2014

Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies, Aldwych, London by Natasha Tripney

Aldwych, London: Jeremy Herrin's riveting, sell-out staging of Hilary Mantel's books has now made the journey to the West End. Mantel has yet to publish the third instalment in her…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AM
Friday, May 16, 2014

Alice, V&A, London by Natasha Tripney

V&A, London: In place of a rabbit hole, <a href="http://www.mettatheatre.co.uk/" target=_blank>Metta Theatre</a>'s magical and moving reworking of Lewis Carroll�…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AM
Monday, May 12, 2014

Tonight at 8.30, Nuffield, Southampton by Natasha Tripney

Nuffield, Southampton: In an ambitious co-production by the Nuffield and English Touring Theatre, Nuffield Associate Blanche McIntyre is directing all nine works in Noel Coward's cycle …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:54AM

Microcosm, Soho Theatre, London by Natasha Tripney

Soho Theatre, London: Matt Hartley's new play explores what it is to feel unsafe in one's own home. A young couple, Alex and Clare, move into a new flat; but they've barely be…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AM

Donkey Heart, Old Red Lion, London by Natasha Tripney

Old Red Lion, London: Moses Raine's engaging new play - directed by his sister, Nina, whose own plays include the Olivier-nominated Tribes - is set in a Moscow flat inhabited by three g…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:38AM
Monday, April 28, 2014

A Dashing Fellow, New Diorama, London by Natasha Tripney

New Diorama, London: Inspired by the short fiction of Vladimir Nabokov, Simon Eves' production is a curious confection. Set against a backdrop of Berlin in the 1930s, three stories - ta…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:55AM
Thursday, April 24, 2014

Dorian Gray, Riverside Studios, London by Natasha Tripney

Riverside Studios, London: Chiefly notable for featuring the stage debuts of the latest two members of the Redgrave and Fox acting dynasties, in Daisy Bevan and Jack Fox, this is an otherwis…

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AM
Wednesday, April 23, 2014

Every Last Trick, Royal and Derngate, Northampton by Natasha Tripney

Royal and Derngate, Northampton: James Dacre's inaugural season as artistic director at the Royal and Derngate continues with Tamsin Oglesby's new version of George Feydeau's …

SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AM

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