West End transfer from the Almeida retains pressure-cooker intensityThis production of Tennessee Williams’ neglected classic, Summer and Smoke, arrives from the Almeida into the West End w…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:24AMA daring counterintuitive reading proves richly rewardingMacbeth has rarely seemed quite as metrosexual as in this gorgeous shadow-painted production that marks artistic director at the Glob…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:32AMThis scalpel-sharp drama anatomises marital breakdown with cold-eyed clarityAdultery seldom looks less adult than in the form of the mild-life crisis – that much-satirised condition in whi…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:24AMKen Urban's play is a psychological thriller crossed with a love storyThis blisteringly intense evening at Trafalgar Studios begins with two strangers in an Amsterdam hotel bedroom and …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 03:36AMA disappointing portrait of middle-class hypocrisyThe playwright Bathsheba Doran has blazed a stellar trail ever since graduating from Cambridge at the same time as David Mitchell and Robert…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:18AMJames Graham's Dickens project is structurally ambitious but doesn't add upIt sounds like a marriage made in heaven. Charles Dickens and James Graham – both great chroniclers of…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:42AMAuthentic performances hit the mark"I’m not a number, I’m not a grade, and I’m not a failure." The 17-year-old girl stands in front of the small class, who gaze at her goggle-eyed. "A …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:36AMThe spirit of Magritte pervades this brand of existentialismAs the Syrian conflict enters its final convulsions, renewing memories of how the Sykes-Picot agreement – between an Englishman …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:12AMHumour used too often as a substitute for perceptionLycra, jealousy and pubescent ambition are put under the spotlight in Clare Barron’s provocative probe into the American competitive dan…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 05:04AMCelebrates multicultural diversity with a zingA break-dancing mini Michael Jackson, a transvestite Neptune, and a hero who wears his hubris as proudly as his gold-tipped trainers, are unconv…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:04AMAs the manic, self-obsessed king, Rhys Ifans cuts an extraordinary presenceThe image of a raging, narcissistic tyrant, convinced that he can crush even death into oblivion, has all too many …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 04:42AMA fearlessly experimental, physically ingenious exploration of the textA raw pagan vitality animates this extraordinary story about a teenage boy wrestling with tumultuous emotions in the fa…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 06:04AMInfectious fun delivered by a cast bursting with boisterous talentGender-bending, confused identities, and hedonistic anarchy go together as naturally in summer Shakespeare as strawberries a…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:06AMThe Faction brings fire and gumption to ShakespeareThe Faction’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a production in which women are more likely to kick ass than sleep with one – a muscular, …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:54PMInvigorating theatre: the 1971 Manhattan feminism vs Norman Mailer debate recreatedIconoclasm, orgasms, and rampant rhetoric are all on irrepressible display in The Wooster Group’s recreat…
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 07:36AMAnna Deavere Smith shines her singular light on American inequality and systemic injusticeAnna Deavere Smith contains multitudes. As the solo performance artist recounts the testimonies she …
SOURCE: theartsdesk.com at 08:18AMIsabelle Huppert brings her customary rigour to some notorious writingsIn an era marked by virtue-signalling, it's perhaps no surprise that Isabelle Huppert – a woman who has always gone …
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