209 stories by "Honour Bayes"
Beck, Hayes: Emerging out from under the skirt of the expected panto dame, Peter Pan - the Swashbuckling Pantomime Adventure has no such drag act and Peter is played by a boy. This is more f…
Arts Depot, London: There's a Gruffalo next to me and it's roaring. Luckily it's a very small one so, like the mouse in Julia Donaldson's beloved book, I'm not afrai…
Tara, London: "We are all Londonratis!" exclaim the twirling characters - half Punjabi, half Gujarati - in the fabulous Dick Whittington Goes Bollywood, sweeping their audience up …
Gordon Craig Theatre, Stevenage: What a fitting time to put on the story of Robin Hood, the valiant hero of the poor pitted against a villain hell bent on bleeding them dry - he should be in…
The Space, London: Fulfil Me Fully, Phil is another curiosity from author and director Sebastian Rex. Populating the stage with social stereotypes - the Baker, the Husband - Rex's expre…
The Courtyard Theatre, London: Memories play tricks on you, at least the ones do in Pericles Snowdon's surreal whodunnit. The Cat's Mother sees Snowdon entering the alluring realm …
Honor Bayes talks to Howard Barker about his 'theatre of catastrophe'
The Print Room, London: Howard Barker wants theatre to be an ordeal but this polished production by Robyn Winfield-Smith is anything but. Director Robyn Winfield-Smith encases Barker's …
Camden People's Theatre, London: Devised shows based around family memories sometimes fall into the trap of being manipulative, but not Cooking Ghosts. Beady Eye has once again created an em…
Arcola Theatre, London: A popular contemporary subject, combat stress has never been placed so clearly within a societal context as in Kristiana Colon's moving play but I cd only whispe…
Hampstead Theatre Studio, London: At a time when journalists are thought as untrustworthy as politicians Blue Sky's premise feels idealised - an investigative journalist doing whatever …
Arts Depot, London: Hot from a successful worldwide tour, Frantic Assembly and National Theatre of Scotland's Beautiful Burnout is back and it's pulling no punches.
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The Rose, London: The adage 'show, don't tell' - a precautionary note designed to stop writers from relying solely on description - could be put to good use here. David Weinbe…
St Saviours Church, London: To the grisly sound of bones crunching and dirt being clawed away, Timothy Allsop's Richard rises from a grave scattered with papers. So begins Allsop and Ca…
Trafalgar Studios 2, London: As some politicians know only too well, sometimes it's only when we are recorded unawares that the truth becomes apparent. But in Stephen Belber's Tape…
The Duke of Hamilton, London: Sitting in the low ceilinged theatre under the Duke of Hamilton pub, it's easy to feel the same sense of entrapment that plagued John Merrick.
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Tara Arts Theatre, London: What a perfect time to revive Moliere's The Miser, a satirical comedy of manners inviting us to laugh at the money-pinching rich. Indeed the austere Harjinder…
New Diorama, London: Incomplete at the time of his death, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck has been posthumously finished and edited by authors ever since - The Woyzeck is Sebastian Rex's s…
Artsdepot, London: Inspired by the Henry David Thoreau quote "Not until we are lost do we begin to find ourselves," aerialist theatre company Ockham's Razor's new show, N…
The White Bear Theatre, London: Owen Horsley's electric production of The Duchess of Malfi peels the skin off John Webster's play to reveal the smiling skull beneath. Horsley perfo…
Lyceum Theatre, Edinburgh: Camille O'Sullivan stands as both perpetrator and victim in Lucrece's bloody chamber. She is a chameleon, able to shift from masculine to feminine with t…
Actor's Church, London: Since they took over the idyllic garden of St Paul's Church in 2009 Iris Theatre Company have proven themselves to be masterful Shakespearean promenaders. This y…
Drayton Arms Theatre, London: Nipping in early to whet the appetite before the Globe's star-heavy Twelfth Night, the Drayton Arms Theatre opens its doors with Shakespeare's mischie…
The Rose, Bankside, London: Entering the Rose Theatre is usually atmospheric enough, but this is thoroughly romantic as you are seduced with the smell of sweet incense and the sight of delic…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Do you own a donor card? Even in our secular society the question of donating one's organs after death, of carving up the body, causes some people moral ang…
