25 stories by "Rafaella Marcus"
The best pop culture depictions of the Eighties are poised on a knife edge: bright colours! Big hair! Definitive pop! But also
There's something brilliant about sanctioned playtime " dress up, get a fake name, pretend you're on a life or death mission, play
How do you recreate the blood-stirring heat of Baz Luhrmann's Verona Beach in a remote corner of London? Secret Cinema succeeds despite
A new all-female musical based on true historical accounts of rival female street gangs is an exciting prospect. Delivered as music hall
In Denise Deegan's boarding school favourite, scholarship student Daisy embarks on her first year at Grangewood, beset on all sides by snobbish
Shock and outrage has dominated my Twitter feed of late, following exposure of sexual harassment in the theatre industry. Scratch the surface,
Hwaet do you get when you cross Anglo Saxon epic with heavy metal? Chris Thorpe's Beowulf. Narrated by a fearsome Debbie Korley
Erin Markey's Boner Killer " part of the Fierce at the Yard showcase " is ostensibly a cabaret act. Markey plays and
Ian Dixon Potter's The Test tells the story of Dora (Natasha Killam), a computer scientist who succeeds in creating an entirely new Turing Test-passing
Philip Correia's warm-hearted, rough-handed debut play Hyem (yem, hjem, home) looks inside the home of Sylv and Mick, eccentric inhabitants of Northumberland's
Enda Walsh's Disco Pigs, his 1997 portrait of co-dependent teenagers Runt and Pig, is a tricky machine-gun mix of dialect and secret
The Donmar Warehouse's film of their all-female Julius Caesar is a labour of love. Directed by Phyllida Lloyd, it's definitely a filmed
Performed in the imposing remains of a gothic chapel, Brave New Worlds' Trinity is arrestingly weird. Creators and performers Guoda Jaruseviciute, Valentina
Heartache: Rafaella Marcus reviews Kneehigh Theatre at the Globe.
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Dutch children's theatre company Theatre Artemis specialise in questioning authority. In The Man Who Knows It All this is done through a
Like most 17th century revenge tragedies, James Shirley's The Cardinal is a gratifyingly dark farce: masques, wars, poisonings, and illicit love abound
Dirty Market repurposes found things. In its stage production of Leonora Carrington's 1976 novel, rags and string, twigs and cardboard are given
There have been some inspired examples of gender-switched casting recently. But this all-female version of Laura Wade's 2010 play Posh, exploring the
Marlowe's world-conquering shepherd Tamburlaine loves rolling the names of places round his mouth: Persepolis, Scythia, Aleppo, Damascus. This relish is palpable in
At the heart of this adaptation of Phoebe Gloeckner's graphic novel The Diary of a Teenage Girl is an extraordinary performance from
20 Stories High's verbatim play I Told My Mum I Was Going on an RE Trip approaches the subject of abortion with
The Hunting Lodge is a curious beast. Ignace Cornelissen spins a fairytale for teens and pre-teens, albeit one where Cinders has vanished
"I'm the only woman in the show," whispers Hannah Ringham's voice wryly, "but I'm in charge." Dancing Bear, Dancing Bear offers an
Tony Harrison's 1988 play The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus takes fragments of a lost satyr play by Sophocles and spins them into an
"It's time for a star who looks just like you," go the lyrics of Hairspray, the musical based on the John Waters'
