10 stories by "Max Thomas"
Review: Ticker, Underbelly Cowgate, Edinburgh Fringe5.0starsWritten and performed by Tom Machell, Ticker is a fully-fledged, consummate piece of theatre. It is rare and no small achievement …
Review: Metamorphosis, Sweet Grassmarket, Edinburgh Fringe4.0starsAssiduously constructed and impressively acted, Different Theatre's female-oriented Metamorphosis rings with a new voice and…
Review: Venice Preserved, The Swan Theatre4.0Overall ScoreDespite its immense contemporary popularity, Thomas Otway's Venice Preserved is a piece that hasn't appeared on our stages for a num…
Review: The Taming of the Shrew, Royal Shakespeare Theatre4.0starsThe Royal Shakespeare Company has been at the heart of bringing classical theatre to a wider audience for many years. Its ac…
Review: As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare Theatre 3.0Overall Score The advertisements for this production of As You Like Itextend the mysterious invitation to 'come into the forest'…
If it ever feels as though you're constantly losing things around the house, then you too might have Borrowers, says narrator Eddie, whose childhood memory provides the framework for Bea Rob…
David Edgar's new adaptation of Dickens' classic 1843 novella returns to the RSC for the second year running with a new cast, after achieving critical and commercial success in 2017. Adapted…
With first editions dating to 1609 (incidentally the year of the publication of his sonnets), Troilus and Cressida is one of Shakespeare's later plays. It takes place seven years into the si…
Maydays blitzes through more than 30 years of political revolutions, turmoil, demonstrations and dissent. Moving from the Fall of Berlin in the spring of 1945 to Callaghan's 1978-9 so-called…
In this modern reimagining, Tartuffe (Asif Khan) is a con man who swindles a Brummie-Pakistani family out of their house and savings. Assuming the piety of 'an angel' and eschewing material …
