84 stories by "Rebecca Jones"
Delirium have already made quite the name for themselves constantly moving and evolving with the theatre scene since 2009. They are famed for exploring humanity: tapping into the way we work…
The Man Who Had All the Luck is a small offering from a big name: Arthur Miller. It's not on any GCSE syllabus to be gratuitously laboured through with a fine toothed comb. It's not been don…
Aeschylus’s The Oresteia is in high demand at the moment, with new versions sprouting up left, right and centre, and The Globe houses The Oresteia in its most authentic form. Director …
I've been going to the National Theatre for as long as I can remember and I have fought to be there. As a student I would sprint from the closing of the doors and get there just in time for …
Until yesterday the biggest mistake an audience member could make at a comedy show, as far as I was aware, was to sit in the front row. But oh no, no "Â the biggest mistake an audience mem…
Needless to say, The Playboy of the Western World is a classic, and with that this production is lumbered with the task of living up to that label. John Millington Synge's play has been knoc…
The most infectious feature of Kieran Knowles's debut play is the tight amity and paced unity of the cast that is matched by the inherent camaraderie in the plot. Operation Crucible refers t…
Pole is about to make its way to the exhaustingly incredible Edinburgh Festival Fringe, where it'll have to scramble its way into the consciousness of thousands of visitors choosing betwe…
Musicals are a genre I love to hate, or sometimes hate to love. I have to be in the mood for one. In general that which niggles me about them is the same as what I whole-heartedly like about…
Much Ado About Nothing is the Shakespeare play I am fondest of. It may not be his most earth-shattering play or packed with integrity and emotional undulations, but it's smart, fast-paced an…
Second Soprano takes a slice of our history and slams it, right where it belongs, in the present. Based on a spoken family heirloom of a female's First World War, we are privy to a tribute t…
Bash by Neil LaBute is made up of three one-act plays, connected only by their attention to the domestic darkness of people. Each depicting, differently, how even the most ordinary of us can…
The Eighth Wonder of the World. As if the modest title isn't enough of a build up, there's the structure itself: the Thames Tunnel Shaft. You don't expect to find a wonder tucked away in a n…
Sometimes you need to watch something that makes you think differently. Sometimes you need to watch something that resets your moral compass. Sometimes you need to watch something that re…
A temple is a place of ultimate worship. Temple is about what we individuals, in this modern world of ours, deem worthy of worship. Like fish in a net, we're fraught and tangled between wors…
The Pleasance Theatre is a place of reminiscence and tummy-bubbling excitement for me. Tucked away in a cobbled mews in Islington, flashing yellow in the murky grey reminds me of one Â�…
The Globe. Nothing major. Just a little piece of national heritage. A symbol of our historical culture, too proud for a space on the Monopoly board, but on the tourist map the world over. Ne…
The Park Theatre is its own boss "Â it seems to do whatever the hell it wants and does all of it well. Each new play eats alive the 200 faces before it with new statements and new thought …
The Angry Brigade were a part of Britain's counter-culture in the early 70s. They began as a bubbling and angry undercurrent of a society that was ordered and suppressive. A culture that was…
What makes a good comedian? It's impossible to tell, I've seen so many that I have loved one week and felt drained by the next. There are few that I'd recommend, I don't like the pressure of…
The National Theatre. The. National. Theatre. A title heavy with the loom of expectation. No pressure, Everyman. Well, maybe a little bit of pressure for the National's new captain, Artistic…
The Etcetera Theatre in Camden is another fringe venue that I happen to hold a candle for, once you get past the on-the-seedy-side pub that it crowns. I love that it hosts a new writing fest…
Carmen Disruption is utterly unshakeable. The disruption doesn't erupt but imperceptibly breathes its way into the audience, catalysed by words and visions that move so fast it's hard to kee…
Based on a short-lived, off-Broadway, cult classic I wondered how smooth the transition from stage to screen would be for The Last Five Years. I'm, guiltily, the sort of person that perpetua…
Playing at The Lion and Unicorn's attic, Voices is a two-handed account of the ever-remembered Great War. Tissues at the ready, I strapped myself in for overwhelming waves of rememb…
