61 stories by "Laura Peatman"
There's that familiar problem again: how to perform a play that is so well-known that the audience could probably be the prompt? How to "surprise, move and provoke" " as Blue Crate Theatre s…
A double bill of new works from Southwark Playhouse Young Company shows a group of young artists with their fingers firmly on the pulse of their generation, whose potential can certainly be …
Commissioned by Sadler’s Wells as part of 2013's 'String of Rites' series, celebrating the centenary of the premiere of Stravinsky's original, Michael Keegan-Dolan's The Rite of Spring…
There's a moment in Act One of In This House when, on the witness stand, Vivian Charles succinctly depicts her first sexual encounter with lover Ted: "In the supply cupboard at the office Ch…
David Greig's The Events garnered plenty of attention and acclaim when it premièred in Edinburgh in 2013, winning a Scotsman Fringe First Award. Exploring the aftermath of a mass shooting i…
As Gounod's Faust arrives on the Royal Opera House's main stage, the Linbury Studio Theatre hosts two world premières inspired by the classic tale. The first of these is Through His Teeth, …
Cheer Up, It Might Never Happen presents itself as a comedy about a woman tying up the loose ends of her life before her suicide: presumably this clash of subject and tone " and the show's t…
This production of David Mamet's Race at Hampstead Theatre marks its UK première, having first appeared on Broadway four years ago. It is unmistakeably American, from its treatment of the c…
Commissioned by The Ohio State University's Arts Initiative in 2012, Hamlet's Fool is both a stand-alone tragedy piece and a reflection on the possible past of Yorick, known to us only as a …
Dispel all the stereotypes of stout sopranos warbling and stuffy, incomprehensible librettos: this is opera with its feet planted firmly in 2013. Dutch composer Michel van der Aa and novelis…
As Ovalhouse celebrates its fiftieth birthday this year, directors Rebecca Atkinson-Lord and Rachel Briscoe promise a season that is "stealthily meaningful and there will also be funny bits"…
