1,125 stories by "Natasha Tripney"
Old Red Lion, London: Miran Hadzic's play begins promisingly enough. Ridley Smith is a sharply suited businessman, whose increasing disillusionment with his life and job is intensified …
Pleasance, London: Kaite O'Reilly's play for Forest Forge takes elements of ancient Welsh myth and splices them with something more contemporary and sinister. Rose is a young deaf …
Lyttelton, National, London: Following their collaboration on the intense Misterman, Enda Walsh joins forces once again with Cillian Murphy in a play that sees them dancing and darting acros…
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: Rory Mullarkey's tricky new play contains passages which are rallying, angry and necessary, but it also seems wedded to an absurdist mode …
Shakespeare's Globe, London: Blanche McIntyre makes her Globe debut with an energetic and entertaining production of Shakespeare's early comedy. It takes a while to warm up, admittedly,…
Almeida, London: Set during the fire and fury of the 2011 London riots, Alecky Blythe's latest verbatim play attempts to unpack the social tensions that drove people to take to the stre…
Southwark Playhouse, London: Set in Germany in the early 1930s, Tony Kushner's play depicts the fall of the Weimar Republic and the rise of Hitler through the filter of Reagan's Am…
Noel Coward Theatre, London: Declan Donnellan's stage adaptation of the Oscar-laden 1998 film - in which Judi Dench famously acquired a best supporting actress award for her eight-minut…
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon: The Two Gentlemen of Verona is a play of experiment - it's the work of a writer finding his voice and in it you can see familiar themes a…
Crypt of the Museum of the Order of St John, London: The space has a power of its own for this intense passion play, performed in an atmospheric historic setting. The 12th-century vaulted cr…
Bush Theatre, London: Actor and playwright Robin Soans is perhaps best known for his verbatim work, including plays like the Arab-Israeli Cookbook and Talking to Terrorists. Here he wades in…
Battersea Arts Centre, London: Devised by Fine Chisel, a Bristol-based company of actor-musicians, this layered, idea-rich show, a Fringe First-winner, weaves together a number of stories in…
Hampstead, London: The set for the Hampstead Theatre production of Beth Steel's second play, which takes place during the years of the 1980s miners' strike, is truly transporting. …
Battersea Arts Centre, London: This is the first time in its 30-year history that Forced Entertainment has adapted a novel for the stage - and the results are both relentless and hypnotic.
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Young Vic, London: Inspired by the work of Oliver Sacks, this new production co-written and directed by Peter Brook and Marie-Helene Estienne sees them revisiting the terrain of the human mi…
The Other Place, Courtyard, Stratford-upon-Avon: To mark the 40th anniversary of The Other Place, the RSC is staging a festival of new writing by women designed to chime with the Roaring Gir…
Waterloo East, London: Written by author and 'political philosopher,' Reggie Adams, An Interview with Gaddafi invites its audience to question the way the regime change in Libya, a…
Ustinov Studio, Bath: The Ustinov Studio's third season of contemporary American theatre concludes with the UK premiere of a 2003 play by Lynn Nottage, who would go on to win the Pulitz…
Arcola Theatre, London: This new play by Sarah Daniels, <a href="https://www.arcolatheatre.com/whats-on" target=_blank>receiving its world premiere at the Arcola</a>, b…
Inspired by the mischievous mythical figure of John Barleycorn, Tristan Bernays explores what it means to be English in his solo show The Bread and the BeerJohn Barleycorn has beer in his bl…
The Birmingham playwright's new work The Forensics of a Flat (and Other Stories) is a love affair with her home and its pastFrancesca Millican-Slater likes to unpick the history of things. H…
Royal and Derngate, Northampton: James Dacre's inaugural season as artistic director at the Royal and Derngate continues with its strongest production to date, a revival of Patrick Marb…
Southwark Playhouse, London: David Mercatali, having recently directed the feverish monologue Dark Vanilla Jungle, again directs an intense solo show: the UK premiere of this adaptation of D…
Aldwych, London: Jeremy Herrin's riveting, sell-out staging of Hilary Mantel's books has now made the journey to the West End. Mantel has yet to publish the third instalment in her…
V&A, London: In place of a rabbit hole, <a href="http://www.mettatheatre.co.uk/" target=_blank>Metta Theatre</a>'s magical and moving reworking of Lewis Carroll�…
