76 stories by "Holly O'Mahony"
It's an uncomfortable truth that torture is taking place in silenced pockets of the world, as I write now and later as you read. Mario Benedetti's play Pedro and the Captain aims to tell the…
A girl who is deemed inferior to the damaged and/or questionable men surrounding her is the subject of Eimear McBride's award-winning novel, A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, now adapted for th…
"Can you maybe just tell me what is going on? I'm really spooked," says Brett (Norma Butikofer) in a statement which seems to capture the entire experience of watching Crude Prospects, th…
Anthony Green's new production Hamlet Peckham splits Shakespeare's protagonist into three Hamlets, each played by a different actor. Hamlet one (Sharon Singh) is 'the problem', Hamlet two (M…
Transporting Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet from sixteenth century Verona to twenty-first century London, Shakespeare Up Close has modernised this great romantic tragedy to make it enjoyable…
There's something very enticing about watching theatre in the vaults at Waterloo: the dingy chambers filled with passionate pieces of up-and-coming theatre, the makeshift, bottom-numbing woo…
To today's liberal, British audience, the notion of being censored and jailed for writing a hedonistic and homoerotic text is an alien concept. However in 1891, when Oscar Wilde published hi…
Told in a tone of light-hearted jest, through physical theatre and skilful puppetry, Bears in Space is exactly what it says on the tin: a play about bears in space. This comic production is …
After a sell-out stint at the Royal Court this autumn, Martin McDonagh's Hangmen continues to delight West End audiences at the Wyndham's Theatre with its illustrative set, punchy script and…
For the final chunk of the Staging a Revolution festival, Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) abandon their nomadic style, doing away with the practice of texting their audience a secret location at …
Banned in their own country, Belarus Free Theatre (BFT) push their audience squeamishly towards the edge of their seats with Trash Cuisine, part of their Staging a Revolution festival taking…
Husbands & Sons simultaneously tells the stories from three of D.H. Lawrence's plays; chopped, re-ordered and enacted side-by-side on the Dorfman stage at the National Theatre. Lawrence'…
Crushed is set amidst the student protests of 2010, in which between 30-50,000 protesters marched against the Tory-Lib Dem government proposal to raise tuition fees from three to nine thousa…
Blending Ovid's epic Roman poem into scenes of 1940s London, and peppering this concoction with slick moments of magical realism, Pants on Fire have created a theatrical masterpiece in Ovid'…
A teacher-pupil love affair. The premise is not in itself original, however playwright Fiona Evans lays something new on the table that spices things up and shifts the focus to gender: do ou…
In what has been described by Robert O'Dowd, Chief Executive of the Rose Theatre, as their “biggest and most ambitious project to date”, Trevor Nunn's revival of The Wars of the …
Natalie Wilson’s Rise Up is set in the throngs of the civil rights movement of 1960s America. In search of equality, we join four Freedom Riders on a Greyhound bus and travel from Wash…
It's a shame when a quality piece of writing that's brought to life as an accessible and enjoyable dramatisation is left to be performed without an audience. Whether it's the result of insuf…
Souvenir T-shirts and overpriced programmes. Ice cream tubs and politely grinning ushers. We’re front of house for the new Britney Spears musical, Oops!… I Did It Again, but toni…
Rose & Pen Productions' The River Spirit weaves old folklore into modern-day environmental issues, in a tale told partially through folk music. It sounds good on paper, and there's a lo…
There is one thing that unites most tribute shows: they're made with fans in mind. Good autobiographical shows tend to have a genuine desire to portray the subject in the best possible li…
Marooned on an island that is encompassed by the sea and the tales of its occupants, we find ourselves within the setting of Rebecca Rogers' new play, Reckless. Â Â On this island, where…
Swanky jazz notes entice the audience into a snug auditorium within the Young Vic theatre. Once inside, we are invited to sit at tables or on benches either side of a traverse stage, where w…
Nestled in a Texan home that's torn between the glamorous rebellion of 60s America and the conservative traditionalists of the previous generation, we find the characters of Horton Foote's p…
Holly O'Mahoney goes behind the scenes on this astounding co-production between physical theatre company Vesturport and the Lyric Hammersmith.
