50 stories by "Elisabeth Mahoney"
Shaw Theatre, LondonOn the opening night of former Radio 1 DJ Mike Read's musical about the Wilde one, there is a problem with the sound. The radio microphones, especially that of Peter Blak…
Chapter, CardiffThe week leading up to the opening ceremony of the Olympics is the perfect context for staging Elfriede Jelinek's epic play about the culture of sport. As excitement and grum…
Brewery, BristolTwelve short plays in less than two hours is always a tall order. How to avoid each play feeling like a sketch, merely the beginning of something? Peter Oswald's plays, which…
Various venues, WalesWales's contribution to the Cultural Olympiad is nothing if not eye-catching. "I've just seen a plane on the Heads of the Valleys road!" one startled local tweeted on Su…
Cardiff city centreThis is fun. Give It a Name theatre company take audiences into the streets and hidden nooks of Cardiff at dusk as they recreate scenes from the 1970s spy thriller by Harr…
Clwyd Theatr Cymru, MoldIn his first play, actor Matthew Trevannion returns to his home town of Pontypool. That adage about writing what you know serves him well in this impre…
Ustinov Studio, BathSarah Ruhl's extended title for her 2009 play " the last in the Ustinov's impressive season of contemporary American plays " is a nod to its two layers. Yes, it is about …
Pontadarwe Leisure CentreThere could hardly be a better, more resonant context for NoFit State's latest circus show than the current tumultuous events across Europe. "Everything's going…
Patti Pavilion, SwanseaDylan Thomas, whose short story Just Like Little Dogs inspired this collaboration between Frantic Assembly and National Theatre Wales, would like this show, you would …
Chapter, CardiffWith their assured production of Caryl Churchill's Serious Money last year, Waking Exploits established themselves as a young Welsh theatre company to watch. In this exhilara…
Tobacco Factory, BristolAndrew Hilton's annual Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory season has done it again. This vivid, superlative production of Chekhov's last play, translated by Stephen M…
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Ustinov Studio, BathAdam Rapp's award-winning 2005 play about a love triangle shaped by double-unrequited love begins and ends with a desperate act. In the first, playwright Matt, in Amsterd…
Sherman Cymru, CardiffIt is another coup, and a rather poignant one, for National Theatre Wales: bringing Peter Gill back to direct in his native city for the first time. He does so in a rev…
Northcott, ExeterThis adaptation of Dick King-Smith's novel set in a 1940s farming community is heart-gladdening theatre from the start. Lanterns hang in the trees over a barn where a farmer…
Theatr Clwyd, MoldThe look of this production of Arnold Wesker's 1959 play couldn't be more on"trend. Ruth Hall's design is all postwar 50s shabby chic: a gorgeous nostalgia-fest of retro st…
Arnolfini, BristolA performance piece stemming from the quantum theories of Erwin Schrödinger " he of the cat that is simultaneously dead and alive notion " sounds heavy enough. But a resta…
Taliesin, SwanseaFew modern classics bring more challenges, in particular the burden of expectation, than Anthony Burgess's dystopian shocker. How do you stage it to give the full force of i…
National Theatre Wales's first musical, The Village Social, is a dark-comic cocktail of the Bacchae and the Vicar of Dibley. Elisabeth Mahoney joins its rural tourGiven the buzz about him at…
Taliesin, SwanseaAfter the sexy energy of their production of Dangerous Liaisons last year, Mappa Mundi's take on Shakespeare's romcom, featuring bickering lovers and disgraced innocence, is…
Brewery, BristolTwins, living on an island 99 metres off the coast of Bournemouth, greet the audience. They are standing in a fish tank. "I'm Peter," says the young woman, played by Susie Ri…
Chapter, CardiffIn the nine years since Gary Owen's ferociously bleak dystopian play premiered, its concerns have grown ever more pressing. This is a world divided into the beautiful and rep…
New theatre, ExeterIt is not difficult to guess who Thomas Heywood was flattering with his 1599 swashbuckling play about a plucky maid called Bess who is chaste and true, and rules in a man'…
The Brewery, BristolPart of the Bristol Ferment season dedicated to new and emerging theatrical work and talent, Discombobulated immediately lives up to its fine title. Performers Angus Barr…
