209 stories by "Honour Bayes"
Southwark Playhouse, London: Southwark Playhouse has moved to a temporary new home between Elephant and Castle and Borough - a deceptively nondescript shop front that opens up into a shabby …
Royal Court Theatre, London: Will Adamsdale's trick is to make his pieces look home-made and rather makeshift, when actually they are anything but.
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Barons Court Theatre, London: Wow, this play is good. In Blavatsky's Tower, Moira Buffini brings the might of her metaphysical imagination to the soap opera of family life. Blood ties a…
St Leonard's Church, London: To say that The Last Days of Judas Iscariot is an audacious piece of work would be something of an understatement. Stephen Adly Guirgis' metaphysical Americ…
The Lion and Unicorn Theatre, London: With the rampant rise of consumerism, envy is a very modern affliction - everybody wants what they can't have, and as such Iago, a great Shakespear…
Jermyn Street, London: While undoubtedly a frothy affair, Frederick Lonsdale's On Approval provides a very comfortable night out. He may lack the epigramic talents of Wilde or Coward bu…
Canal Cafe, London: Within today's secular society it should be easy for us to laugh at the religious hypocrisy so deliciously lampooned in Moliere's Tartuffe. What could be more h…
Old Red Lion Theatre, London: Cited as the father of symbolism, 1911 Nobel Prize winner Maurice Maeterlinck's expressionistic work interrogates the human condition. Beji Sperring and Ta…
Finborough, London: The way we treat our elderly is an increasingly pressing question so the Finborough Theatre's revival of Stewart Conn's I Didn't Always Live Here is a pert…
Tabard, London: Glenn Chandler - known around the world as the creator of the police drama Taggart - attempts to reignite the genre of detective thriller on the London fringe with his new sh…
Drayton Arms, London: In producing a double bill of Shakespeare's least performed plays, Pericles and Cymbeline, Pistachio Choice has set itself a tough task. It is one, with the latter…
Leading development directors tell Honour Bayes that collaboration is the key in the harsh environment of funding cuts and
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Young Vic, London: Fevered Sleep's work defies easy categorisation. The thought-provoking Above Me The Wide Blue Sky, a multi-disciplinary performance that bears witness to the importan…
Trafalgar Studios 2, London: A master of dialogue that is both funny and brutally revealing, Jack Thorne is one of the most sharply empathic writers we have in film, TV and on stage today. N…
Tara Arts, London: Border Crossings' new show explores the role of technology in our understanding of reality alongside the experiences of two generations of a Chinese - from those who …
Barons Court Theatre, London: Ian Buckley's gently humorous new offering is a touching testament to 20th century British socialism. Based on his father's accounts of retired tailor…
Honour Bayes talks to David Greig about Glasgow Girls and Brecht, and his career of eclectic output
Somerset House, London: With a title that artfully riffs off a verse from the apocalyptic Book of Revelations, it's no surprise that In the Beginning was the End is rather doom-laden. B…
The Young Vic, London: Part of World Stages London, Feast is a multicultural explosion for the senses. An attempt to document the spread of the Yoruba belief system, its episodic structure c…
Arcola Theatre, London: With more freedom than ever before, 2013 is surely the best time to be a woman yet levels of female anxiety have never been higher. Leyla Nazli's intelligent new…
Old Red Lion Theatre, London: The Dreamer Examines His Pillow looks to interrogate how we deal with love. Shot through with a dark humour it is entertaining but John Patrick Shanley too ofte…
Barons Court Theatre, London: At one point in Xenia Orphanides' pretentious new offering her protagonist, an artistically constipated painter, cries out "This is turning out to be …
The Roundhouse, London: Three Cardinals come together in prayer as their stage manager intones "All Cardinals to the stage please, this is the five-minute call". They are about to …
Honour Bayes looks back at the fringe highlights of the year
Wyllyots, Potters Bar: Harking back to the days of old repertory theatre this production of Cinderella relies on charm and nostalgia more than impressive bangs and whistles. The result is a …
