18 stories by "Rebecca Gordon"
St Leonard's Church, London : Following on from a successful run of The Merchant of Venice, the Malachites produce another engaging interpretation of a Shakespeare play with their staging of…
The Yard Theatre, London: This is an honest piece of theatre which conveys how some members of society, in this case cleaners on zero hour contracts, are treated as machinery rather than hum…
Southwark Playhouse, London: This intense and sharply witty play focuses on the conflicted Rudi, who is struggling with his identity as the son of a Nazi SS doctor. Rudi captures the attenti…
The Courtyard Theatre, London: The Courtyard Theatre produces a playful version of Hamlet that doesn't focus on the character's battle with depression - instead, Hamlet is a mischi…
The Hope Theatre, London: The grittiness of writer Toby Parker Rees' characters is the highlight of Waist, an intriguing piece of theatre that breaks down the distinction between charac…
St Leonard's Church, London: A talented cast, who adapt to the demands of their roles, and the St Leonard's setting, which adds depth to the play's messages about religion and excl…
The Hope Theatre, London: Writer Matt Osman questions the nature of humanity, grief and suspicion in this play, in which werewolves terrorise London. When a young girl goes missing Sam Elvin…
The Drayton Theatre, London: London Theatre Workshop has produced a stirring collection of four of Tennessee Williams' witty and thought-provoking one-act plays within a dynamic, small …
Old Red Lion Theatre, London: A happy couple receive the news that they are expecting a baby, although not of the human variety. They have produced a bear. The play begins as a surreal comed…
The Hope Theatre, London: This unconventional take on the Cleopatra story successfully presents a disorganised and flawed queen who treads on discarded business papers and seeks adoration; h…
The Shed, National Theatre, London: The National Theatre's Shed, a temporary performance space that presents new and inventive writing, is the perfect setting for Nadia Fall's powe…
Old Red Lion Theatre, London: Folie a Deux excels in capturing the complexity of Coward's characters in its staging of the compelling Still Life and the comic Red Pepper which benefits …
Audit House, London: <a href="http://www.forshorttheatre.com/">For Short</a>'s interactive and intense performance style works well in this inventive piece of thea…
The Greenwich and Docklands International Festival has become one of London's most popular events with an audience of 85,000 last year. Rebecca Gordon meets its artistic director Bradley Hem…
Trinity Buoy Wharf, London: Ailin Conant directs an immersive production of John Milton's Paradise Lost which invites the audience to move between heaven, hell and earth.
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Trinity Buoy Wharf, London: Franz Kafka's tightly-structured short story, In The Penal Colony, is re-imagined into a large scale ensemble piece. The audience is given the role of colony…
Gatehouse, London: Thom Southerland directs a production which moves itself away from the polite pastiche tag usually attributed towards Denise Deegan's Daisy Pulls it Off for a more de…
The CLF Art Cafe, The Bussey Building, London: The comic potential of the enigmatic Iago is exploited to good effect here. Iago, who is excellently played by Jack Johns, stalks through the m…
