10 stories by "Gary Raymond"
Kaite O'Reilly's new play is a dark dark comedy, a Chekhovian family saga on a mainly bare stage that handles its subjects of aging, death and family with a rich and grounded intellectualism…
There can be few modern plays as testing for a female actor as Manfred Karge's Man to Man. When Tilda Swinton took it on at the Royal Court in 1987 and brought to the many roles of this one …
For many the story of Welsh rugby star Gareth Thomas will be familiar. It has been told in many forms, and powerful and inspirational as it is, many times too. Thomas (known to all bar his m…
The casual theatre-goer may be forgiven for thinking that, in Wales at least, serious theatre is going through a phase of chronic disregard for the audience. Yvonne Murphy's all-female Richa…
There are moments in this collaboration between performer and theatre impresario Christopher Green, and best-selling novelist Sarah Waters, where, rather like with a Stewart Lee stand-up rou…
Henry James said, "Realism is what in some shape or form we might encounter, whereas Romanticism is something we will never encounter." The 19th-century Realists believed that "ordinary peop…
There is a glaring irony in that a play about an all-consuming obsession with one thing (fame) has no real idea of what it itself is supposed to be. Say It With Flowers, a purported biograph…
Almost before the dust settles on their globe-spanning collaboration with New National Theatre Tokyo, National Theatre Wales embark on a very different, if no less ambitious, partnership wit…
The play is the thing, to quote one famous bereaved theatrical son, and in this new collaboration between Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru, artist Marc Rees and playwright Roger Williams, it is mos…
If you're one of those who always felt the opening credits of True Blood held more substance and delicious dark corners than the comic-book titillation of the programme that followed, then T…
