17 stories by "Nicholas Hamilton"
Upstairs at the Gatehouse, London: The Tree is a love story about a young Muslim girl and her Serbian neighbour set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War. Bernardo Stella has clearly done …
Leicester Square, London: Grassroots Shakespeare London claims to "revitalise, reimagine and re-examine" the work of the Bard, but nothing so radical is in evidence in this fast-pa…
Finborough Theatre, London: Claire-Louise Cordwell and Jack McMullen give remarkable performances as a young mother, Anne, and her son Tommy whose lives are spent in and out of prison and un…
Wyndham's Theatre, London: It is an exciting start to the year for Conor McPherson, with the Donmar's two recent productions of his work running simultaneously in London and New York. W…
Arts Theatre, London: When the Swedish author and playwright Ann Henning Jocelyn married an Irish earl and moved to rural Ireland in the 1980s, she was surprised to see how some Irish Protes…
Lord Stanley, London: The squat space above Camden's Lord Stanley pub is not the most promising venue for an adaptation of Mikhail Bulgakov's wide-ranging novel - which takes in 19…
Leicester Square, London: Having now also condensed the history of America, the Bible, the history of Western literature and the history of Hollywood cinema, the Reduced Shakespeare Company …
Print Room, London: The decision by playwright Gloria Mina to set this piece in pitch dark throughout allows director Ewan Marshall to avoid some awkward staging challenges, but it cannot di…
Hampstead Theatre, London: The artist Ai Weiwei has become famous for using his work to highlight Chinese state oppression. James MacDonald's production of Howard Brenton's new pie…
The Print Room, London: This less well-known piece by Ireland's preeminent living playwright combines a medical case study with a morality tale.
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Trafalgar Studios 2, London: In Fiesta (The Sun Also Rises), writer and director Alex Helfrecht uses live music, dance and a distinctive performance style to portray the debauchery and wild …
Hackney Empire, London: Expectations are always high when it comes to Hackney Empire's Christmas panto, and the crowds of children and parents (not to mention unaccompanied adults) who …
Playhouse, London: Charles Dickens had a lifelong passion for performance and the theatre. At an early age his father encouraged him to recite poetry in a local pub and he retained the abili…
Theatre On The Fly, Chichester: For the final production at the temporary Theatre On The Fly venue, which is designed to showcase the work of young directors who have trained at Chichester F…
Fortune, London: This adaptation has been running at the Fortune Theatre for 23 years and, following the recent film version starring Daniel Radcliffe, is clearly hoping to find new audience…
National, London: Cillian Murphy came to prominence when Enda Walsh cast him as the teenage tearaway Pig in his 1996 breakthrough play Disco Pigs. A decade and a half later, Murphy's pe…
Harold Pinter, London: When it was first performed in 1974, Absent Friends marked an important shift in Alan Ayckbourn's work. In the place of the manic action and big set pieces which …
