11 stories by "Annie Starkey"
Soho serves once more as the backdrop for this new version of Patrick Marber's previous 'loose adaptation' of Moliere's tragicomedy Don Juan. Not much has changed since 2006's version of Don…
There are few redeeming features to be found in Steven Dykes' new play Glockenspiel. It is lacking in the subtle nuance, witty dialogue and/or exciting spectacle which, in my mind at least, …
There is no need for an elaborate set, complicated lighting design or gimmicky sound effects, as Mark Lockyer stands on a threadbare rug to relive vividly and emotionally his astonishing jou…
The events of Shakespeare's classic Hamlet take the rather novel form of being played out over the course of Claudius and Gertrude's wedding night in Kelly Hunter’s new adaptation. In …
One of the reasons we go to the theatre is to see creatives try new ways of doing things; to witness innovation through experimentation. Setting Sam Shepard's Fool for Love, then, in a non-t…
In a Berkoff double-bill special, a bench on a pier within Trafalgar Studios' flexible and intimate Studio 2 plays host to starkly vivid scenes depicting the beginning, and ending, of a life…
The intimate and inclusive in-the-round set up of the Royal Court's Jerwood Theatre Upstairs was a fitting choice to play host to Nathaniel Martello-White's new play Torn, which serves to ex…
Although this staged reading of seventeenth-century playwright Catherine Trotter's The Fatal Friendship is a work in progress, with an eye on a full production as part of a festival to coinc…
Any high hopes for a pleasurable experience are dashed right at the start of Gods and Monsters' adaptation of the Polish folk story The Wawel Dragon as it begins with a period of jaunty, mig…
A rock musical version of Dostoevsky's famous novel 'Crime and Punishment' seems (aptly) a rather novel enough idea already, but Gods and Monsters Theatre have certainly surpassed expectatio…
With the makings of a strong and novel concept for the basis of a piece of theatre, Who Said Theatre‘s The Calm sees war spark the cementing of one relationship and the destruction of …
