Wednesday, March 23, 2016
Essiedu radiates the impudent charisma, energy and wounded idealism of youth
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 17, 2016
The proceedings are enjoyable but rarely generate the requisite helpless hilarity and have a rather dated feel, however
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:06PM[SHARE]Alexander Hanson is squirm-making as married Michel who is having an affair with Alice, the wife of his best friend
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, March 10, 2016
Continuing our series marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's death, Paul Taylor explains why even one of his less celebrated plays remains a source of wonder and inspiration
SOURCE: The Independent at 04:39PM[SHARE]Monday, November 30, 2015
Friday, November 27, 2015
Richard Eyre directs and adapts this revival with a quietly shattering insight into its terrifying depths
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2015
Friday, November 20, 2015
Sheridan Smith can do little wrong these days, whether as Cilla Black or as Shakespeare's Titania
SOURCE: The Independent at 06:02AM[SHARE]Friday, November 13, 2015
I couldn't watch the appalling scene of the foetus's emergence again unless held at gunpoint
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Written in 1907 and revised in 1926, Harley Granville Barker's work is perennially a play for today
SOURCE: The Independent at 12:09PM[SHARE]Sunday, November 8, 2015
An exhilarating and sharp satire of those Christmas films in which a parent thaws and bonds with a wayward child
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:26PM[SHARE]A resplendent day showed the different sides of Branagh's personality and reunited him with actors of an older vintage
SOURCE: The Independent at 05:04PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2015
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
It's hilarious " as is Joe Bannister's enchanting performance as Orlando
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:34AM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2015
The emotions that the play's Expressionism is supposed to be heightening get shorter shrift
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:21AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2015
Above all, in its very different way, it strikes me as being in the grand tradition of Black Snow
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:07AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2015
Superlative revival sensitises you to the comparable waste of young people's potential today
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:27AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 28, 2015
The work presents three of D H Lawrence's stage masterpieces, written between 1911 and 1913, as a single composite drama
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:49AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 27, 2015
This selection of plays about the iconic charter is uneven in quality, but well worth the trip
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 21, 2015
Dementia has now become what daffodils were to Wordsworth to some of the keenest artistic minds of our era
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:44AM[SHARE]Moodie is as big-heartedly there as Joanne herself seems to be defined by elusiveness and absence
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:44AM[SHARE]Monday, October 19, 2015
Thursday, October 15, 2015
In an unnamed Eastern country, Tom Hughes's twitchy, selfish, privileged Simon is awaiting execution for the alleged murder of a prostitute
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:31AM[SHARE]Monday, October 12, 2015
Interpretation of the Bard's self-thwarting problem comedy revs into a kind of an elating parody
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
The story is partly based on the real-life case of a young man who took his own life when he discovered that his room mate was spying on his actual erotic encounters with men via a webc…
SOURCE: The Independent at 09:28AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
The experience of this trilogy throngs with satisfyingly rounded performances
SOURCE: The Independent at 07:13PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
Perfectly attuned production earns its five stars despite arguably a terrible mishap with plot and tone towards the end
SOURCE: The Independent at 10:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 1, 2015
The Wolf Hall actor's Philippe V is wrong-footlingly whimsical but buffeted with gusts of violent paranoia
SOURCE: The Independent at 08:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Gregory Doran has crafted an impressive addition to his English histories project
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:22AM[SHARE]Erica Whyman's splendid Swan Theatre production is potently restrained
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:22AM[SHARE]Laura Wade's stage adaptation of the Sarah Waters novel is worth the admission price for certain sequences alone
SOURCE: The Independent at 11:22AM[SHARE] 
