204 stories by "Carole Woddis"
Here they are again, `Woy' Jenkins, Shirley Williams, Bill Rodgers and a whirling dervish of a David Owen. But for the rest of us, Steve Waters has done us great and entertaining service in …
A tale of surrogacy, of a western mother renting' the womb of an Indian village woman, Satinder Kaur Chohan's three-hander and Katie Posner's clever, beguiling production provides enormous f…
First we're ushered into what at first sight appears to be a variation on a classroom. We sit, like pupils, upright, on white stools.
Ten years on, this teenage 'coming out', social media/quirky comedy proves a perfect vehicle for the rising star that is Patsy Ferran.
Terrific Revolution season, Mehmet Ergen has put together at the Arcola. Along with Gorki's The Lower Depths, a howl of distress from the underbelly of society now sits Chekhov's The Cherry …
Following previous and award-winning forays into Nigerian politics ( `Iyà -Ilé " TheFirst Wife, and The Estate), Oladipo Agboluaje's New Nigerians takes another sharp-eyed, satirical look…
Recalling the year past, which is de rigueur for those of us who have spent too many nights in darkened rooms, I'm struck again by the richness and talent of so many shows I've seen, particu…
Well, he's done it again. Matthew Bourne's The Red Shoes, based on the iconic movie by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger is a triumph, whichever way you look at it. Scenic-wise, music wi…
Turning Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol into a mock radio recording is, in a sense, returning Dickens to his roots. Dickens public readings of his work are legendary. So here we are, in t…
Kelly Hunter's Hamlet is one that hammers on the eyelids. Ferocious and deeply moving, it harbours an incendiary central performance from Mark Arends that at times makes you fear for his lif…
With its kooky look at the characters drawn to California's movie gold rush, Once in a Lifetime took a comic swipe at the coincidental, accidental happenings that turned opportunists into ci…
This House has taken on a life of its own since its first appearance at the National Theatre in 2012 in the Cottesloe Theatre. Transferred to the Olivier, then revived this year at Chicheste…
What a titan was James Bridie aka Osborne Henry Mavor, doctor and writer, co-founder of Glasgow Citz and prime mover in the launch of the Edinburgh Festival as well as a driving force in the…
"We can't not believe in something " we just end up dying if we stop. Just end up dead." America in the grip of a malaise, America tearing itself apart and here, right in the middle of the 1…
A great wave has engulfed the coast with consequent damage to the nearby nuclear power plant. Within this framework, Kirkwood builds a wonderfully delicate portrait of love, marriage and ten…
None of the plays would have travelled in quite the same way (to Broadway and back) had it not been for Harriet Walter sticking her colours to the mast from Day One, leading the company as B…
Anybody going to see Michael Keegan-Dolan's Swan Lake expecting business as usual is going to be in for a big surprise. But then, few would go unprepared. Keegan-Dolan has been around for a …
E V Crowe has been steadily building a reputation as a writer of taut, stringent control since her debut, Kin (2010) followed by the positively garrulous (by her standards) but impressive H…
So the 'new world order' is upon us but maybe not quite as many of us might have expected or hoped for. And if the new order of things continues as recently indicated, Ella Hickson's vision …
August Strindberg is best known for the violence of his views on sexual politics. Miss Julie and Dance of Death are nothing if not agonised and agonising examinations of the hopeless wish to…
You can't keep a good man down. Nicholas Kent may no longer be presiding over the nation's conscience as he did from his Tricycle Kilburn haunt but here he is popping up on the other side of…
Sri Lanka, an island paradise for tourists but for its inhabitants and those who have lived through its recent civil war between the government and the independent seeking Tamil Tigers, it's…
This revival of Caryl Churchill's 1997 Royal Court original is another grand example of the astuteness of Paul Miller. A co-production this time with Bristol's acclaimed Tobacco Factory Thea…
Adaptor director Peter Glanville was artistic director at Little Angel puppet theatre for eight years and it shows in this delightful, imaginative adaptation of the book by Helen Stephens of…
Franz Xaver Kroetz works in miniature, holding up a mirror to the lives of `small people', in The Nest, a lorry driver and his pregnant wife, working all the hours that god sends to make end…
