84 stories by "Rebecca Jones"
It has been a couple of years since Tim Crouch's Adler and Gibb doused the Royal Court stage with its unfurling question of reality versus art and whether or not there is value in either. Wh…
Back to the trusty Old Red Lion to see it housing what it houses best: new writing. This time produced by Velvet Trumpet, a company whom I have been following quite ardently over the last ye…
Florian Zeller is the man of the moment, following the West End, heart-wrenching smash hit that was The Father, and the equally involving The Mother at the Tricycle. Now he brings us The Tru…
Hampstead Theatre’s proscenium is so neat that its stage looks like a television screen: stark, claustrophobic and coaxing. Even more so when that stage is transformed into a hotel roo…
Rupert Goold's production of Richard III is bookended by the discovery of Richard's remains in a Leicester car park in 2012. We see the scientific excavation and we hear the news report echo…
The Taming of the Shrew is the second in Emma Rice’s inaugural ‘Wonder’ season at the Globe " a season that promises so much. Wonder being the prime promise: a feeling o…
Once again the Old Red Lion hits the nail of everything pub theatre should be on the head, housing Richard D Sheridan's Odd Shaped Balls. Another punchy, socially relevant and boundary-bashi…
I have an awkward confession to make: I'm not really a musical person. There, I've said it. I don't know how it happened or when. I've always been impressed with the three-pronged talents of…
The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie. It takes a second to digest that, just as a title. As a title alone, it packs quite the punch; it's about as a catchy as a limerick, it's flas…
Call me judgemental, but there's something about the phrase 'one man show' that gives me the heebie jeebies. More so when that phrase is accompanied by 'written and performed by …' My inte…
I've said it before, I'll say it again: I love pub theatres. There is something inherently butterfly inducing about walking through a pub full of beer drenched football fans, up a staircase …
The Lion and the Unicorn Theatre was taken over by Chris Mellor, former Senior Arts Officer LB Camden and Creative Producer at Broadway Barking, last month. Mellor, has quite the fight on hi…
David Lindsay-Abaire's Rabbit Hole is delicate. It portrays the delicacy of one family's new normality in grief and the delicacy of our own normality. Rabbit Hole shows us that it only takes…
The day before I saw Red Velvet at The Garrick the audience evacuated the auditorium. The various authors of social media reported loud cracking sounds halfway though the first half. Some fe…
It is nigh on impossible to take Kim Noble: You're Not Alone as a singular piece of theatre, a song and dance about the inevitability of loneliness. It delicately fuses numerable disciplines…
A Table Set For Two is The Underground Clown Club's fourth, penultimate show for their 'Five Years, Five Shows, Five Months' season. A pretty ambitious undertaking, I'm sure we can all agree…
Jamie Lloyd brings us the fiftieth anniversary of (the god that is) Harold Pinter's The Homecoming " a play that in 1965 was slap bang in the middle of people's hunger for howling, tra…
Simon Longman's Sparks is a play of two halves. Ish. Kind of. One half, the first, is marginally longer than the second, though seems even longer than that, as it is action free for the most…
Donald Margulies Pulitzer Prize winning play Dinner With Friends is a domestic kind of masterpiece. Depicting, intricately and poetically, the ripple effect of divorce and the vulnerability …
David Hare's The Moderate Soprano is, on the surface, a play about the construction (literally and artistically) of Glyndebourne opera house. Within that, it charmingly incorporates a side-a…
The potential problem of an hour and a half worth of monologue as a piece of entertainment is self-evident: it can be one-dimensional. It creates an insular atmosphere that demands a subtly …
Sarai is a recognisably age old tale. Our protagonist Sarai (Karlina Grace-Paá¹£eda) longs for a son, and is given an ever-echoing prophecy that promises that and more: "remove yourself f…
Ian Kelly's Mr Foote's Other Leg, a historical fiction, is jam-packed in every way that it is possible to be jam-packed. Not content with 'merely' following the legendary Samuel Foote for a …
Pig by Alex Oates is a part-verbatim, part-naturalistic offering from theatre company Silent Uproar. A company born and bred from the 2017 UK City of Culture (nothing like forward planning),…
Wilton's Music Hall is the world's oldest, surviving music hall. It is hidden behind a single set of sturdy, wooden doors in an alleyway in East London, an area of town that is steeped in a …
