385 stories by "Kate Wyver"
Omnibus theatre, LondonUnnerving but surprisingly funny two-hander inspired by 'consensual cannibal' Armin Meiwes
I'm loth to kink-shame, but I'm not sure I can get behind consensual cannib…
With gags, tunes and dance, The Family Sex Show celebrates sexual pleasure, equality and independence. What is there to be embarrassed about, asks theatre-maker Josie Dale-Jones
'I remember …
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAbigail Graham trims and reshuffle's Shakespeare's play with glitzy gameshow scenes and a brutal, lonely reckoning
A stained, lidless plastic container rests o…
Is it a play? Or is it a film? There are two sides to director Hope Dickson Leach's ambitious staging of the classic Robert Louis Stevenson tale
"Cinema is about change," says Hope Dickson L…
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm's new play is a story of sisters, pain and the gruelling long-distance swim to cross the Channel
Grief, says playwright Morgan Lloyd Malcolm, is an endurance test. "It f…
Royal Court, LondonAlistair McDowall's enthralling meditation on time and mortality features a sword-fighting knight and a Victorian medium
With a slowly unravelled mystery at its centre, Al…
Will it be Miss Scarlett with the lead pipe? Or that horrid Colonel Mustard? Mark Bell explains why the board game's enduring appeal makes it ideal for the stage
"There are always moments in…
Piccadilly theatre, LondonWith pyrotechnics, a looming elephant, scenery to die for and a cast with energy to burn, this revival only falters when it tries to update the tunes
At the end of …
As Covid hit casts, understudies suddenly found themselves needed everywhere " with little warning. We meet these unsung heroes, including a Beanstalk Jack who took on three other last-minut…
A triple bill of Sleeping Beauty, Jack & the Beanstalk and Dick Whittington brings giggles, cheer, glitter galore and, well, a bit of a headache
My head is filled with nothing but glitte…
Bush theatre, LondonElla Road's remarkable play, directed by Monique Touko, is a tender and intimate story of teenage friendship and athletics
A pair of talented teenage runners are dangling…
Frank Wedekind's banned 19th-century classic, now a youth rock musical, is back on stage " with a young cast who came of age in the pandemic
No one saw Spring Awakening for the first 15 year…
The Big House, LondonThis immersive show creates a raucous energy as Maz runs away from her care home and tries to carve her place in the music scene
Every year there are new immersive shows…
Kiln theatre, LondonThe author's debut play lets one of Chaucer's most revolutionary characters loose in modern-day Kilburn in a celebration of community and a life well-lived
For her debut …
Royal Court, LondonEverything here is plot as Al Smith's play speeds over many huge issues with little time to register their impact
In Al Smith's ambitious and cynical new play, everybody h…
Two years after its first staging, Gaiman's dark fairytale has returned, this time to the West End. The author, cast and creative team discuss bringing the eldritch magic of childhood to lif…
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThree senators at a hearing in Washington DC try to find out where all the fish have gone in Marek Horn's smart but deliberately frustrating one-room play
Tuna has…
Theatre 503, LondonDexter Flanders' tender debut about a fractured family shows the tensions and compromises faced by Black gay men
Through the story of one beautiful, fractured family, thi…
The Olivier-winning actor who plays Emperor Palpatine in the Star Wars series talks to Kate Wyver about the fight against 'end-of-life serenity', adapting Julian Barnes for the stage, and ho…
Yard theatre, LondonTwo vividly portrayed fencers shuffle towards a climactic battle in this smart, galvanising coming-of-age drama
The verbal sparring is sharp and pointed in Gracie Gardne…
Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, LondonAncient Greek myths are retold with stripped-back simplicity and no little bloodshed in a hugely enjoyable show
"Welcome in," calls Irfan Shamji as latecomers …
Finborough theatre, LondonJordan Hall's play dips its toes into surviving global apocalypse but only explores romantic disaster
This play will not teach you how to survive an apocalypse. Pi…
Stone Nest, LondonInna Dulerayn's hallucinatory and astonishingly costumed fantasia disintegrates into incoherence in the second half
Under the arches of an old Welsh chapel, beaked angels s…
Peacock theatre, LondonForget about the plot and lose yourself in this dance-circus show whose dizzying performers cast gravity aside
She falls almost in slow motion, sideways, her body rigi…
RashDash's new theatre production honours the pre-Raphaelite by focusing on her own art and poetry " and shifting from tragedy into comedy
Wan, pale, tragic. Elizabeth "Lizzie" Siddal is rem…
