204 stories by "Carole Woddis"
I think I should start off by saying Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle that launches a brave new commercial venture in the West End by director Marianne Elliott and producer Chris Harper…
"Theatre is important. Theatre has the most amazing ability to give people an understanding of what can often be very complex social issues by telling human stories, while at the same time s…
Child of the Divide launches Bhuchar's Boulevard, a new development on from the company, Tamasha, she founded with Kristine Landon-Smith in 1989 and which premiered Child of the Divide origi…
It is now a little over a year since director Yukio Ninagawa died and this revival of his Macbeth, arguably his greatest hit, certainly brought an extra emotional tug to the Barbican.
As a play, there is so much in What Shadows that touches on and echoes today's myriad trouble spots, it could hardly be more topical.
Having excavated Visconti (Ossessione), Ivo van Hove has now moved on to Ingmar Bergman. Much as I admire van Hove " and I do " I am a little perplexed as to why he's involved himself quite …
In David Storey's The March of Russia, Up in Arms find a source of such acutely observed family, domestic pain and political pertinence as to set the heart racing afresh.
Fusing brilliant imaginative speculation with humour, in Natalie Abrahami's revival, Wings becomes a deeply moving, ultimately even uplifting account of what it might feel like for a stroke …
With its peeling walls and echoes of proscenium grandeur, Alice Childress's 1955 American classic in praise of theatre carries a wonderful sense of authenticity, even to some of its echoing …
Howard Brenton gives us a barn-storming role for the actor playing Strindberg " in this case, Jasper Britton " and the women who appear in his life.
As any story going behind-the-scenes of history, Oslo gives audiences a thrilling and enthralling sense of being, for once, on the 'inside' of events. And Rogers keeps personalities and the …
Moscow's Vakhtangov Theatre's filmed version of a live performance of the play of the novel by its artistic director, Rimas Tuminas has arrived, if only for one screening at the Barbican. On…
Doubt is a painful path to follow, even more so when it comes to religious belief. Shanley's parable of doubt, first seen in 2005 and in Britain two years later, then carried under-currents …
I remember Apologia from its first time around, at the Bush Theatre. Then it seemed an extraordinarily acute if honest rebuke to those women of the 1960s and '70s.
I reckon this should be on a drip-feed so flamenco aficionados can get a daily fix of the artistry, beauty and passion that is Paco Peña and his company of dancers, singers and guitarists.
Even if Czech is not your first language, nor Leos JanáÄek's music for that matter, Guido Martin-Brandis, Oliver Till and The Opera Company's chamber version, part of the Arcola's exce…
It's a very strange feeling when you come across two new plays with almost identical themes " a zeitgeist moment where an idea floating in the ether gets picked up by two playwrights in clos…
If there was such a thing as `chick-lit' in theatre, this would be the nearest thing to it. But that would neither be respectful nor entirely accurate.
Seeing Northampton's Royal & Derngate production almost at the end of its tour in the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre " such a lovely theatre now, clearly well cherished locally and a perfect spa…
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He does his homework, does Graham, who is fast turning into our most consistent and energetic political farceur. If we can't have That Was That Was, the next best thing " apart from The News…
Juan Radrigán was to Chilean literature and theatre as Maxim Gorki was to Russia under the Tsars. Writing during the Pinochet era, Radrigán's subjects were exclusively those on the mar…
A `Sacrament of Listening' could be the subtitle for Carol Ann Duffy and Rufus Norris's post-Brexit project that opened three months ago at the National and which, caught now at the end of i…
It began 40 years ago, the Mothers of the Disappeared, the `madres of the Plaza de Mayo', circling the square, in white head scarves demanding answers as to why their children had `disappear…
Love her or hate her, Katie Mitchell is surely our most bravely iconoclastic theatre director working in Britain today. If Robert Lepage is the magician who smoothes the cracks between techn…
