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IRELAND OF THE SORROWS: THE KIDS, THE  CRAIC AND THE KILLING It is 1982 in  County Armagh. Not a good time to be Irish, not there. Not with internees still in the H blocks and t…
NOBILITY AND THE NOSE  on tour  You've hardly sat down before there's a jolly mass drinking-song in pantaloons, leather breastplates and hat-feathers being romped through in fr…
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI FINDS THE DONMAR'S NEW VERSION OF BRECHT CRIMINALLY IRRESISTIBLE How do you get, keep and wield power? What do you use it for, and why? And, if you will stop …
BILIOUS BUT BRACING: THE METROPOLIS AND THE MOVIES Simon may be from the wrong side of New York, a roughneck who ties his wife Anne to a chair and tapes her mouth for being “critica…
GUEST REVIEWER CHARLOTTE VALORI SEES ANCIENT GRUDGE BREAK TO NEW MUTINY AT THE GLOBE The recent spats at the Globe, between the now outgoing Artistic Director Emma Rice and The Powers That B…
1918..1968..AND NOW.. ALAN BENNETT'S ENGLAND In his 1994 diaries Alan Bennett described the funeral of a Dunkirk veteran in a village church. "crammed with the men who won the war. Yo…
VAN HOVE, VISCONTI, AND OUR JUDE London is  getting used to Ivo van Hove of Toneelgroep Amsterdam. But his tremendous A View from The Bridge (in a bleak arena)  and his striking…
A WINDOW ONÂ AN IVORY TOWER… Â Full disclosure: I bought a ticket for an early preview, because press night was my husband's birthday but I couldn't resist checking out Chr…
GHOSTS OF WAR AND SHIPWRECK "When all the world's at war, it's better to be dead". Pallid pessimistic ghosts roam around a lonely Maine lighthouse in WW2, with heaving sepia seas behi…
A JOURNEY THROUGH A PLAGUE YEAR With the horror of Syria fresh on us, and Africa's travails with Ebola still haunting, this sombre, unforgettable treatment of Albert Camus' LA PESTE f…
A CANUTE FOR THE AGE OFÂ ANYWHERES This substantial début play by Tallulah Brown hits an intriguing syncope with David Goodhart's much-discussed definition of the UK tribes. Not le…
A WILD TALE FROM HELL'S BORDERS Â – on the road This enterprising regional touring company generally focuses on the East, whether John Clare or Arthur Ransome, Viking …
BEVERLEY ON THE ROAD AGAIN This a fascinating play, not least because forty years on we can't seem to get enough of it. Cherished by am-dram, revived by excellent casts and theatres, …
A DANGEROUS PASTORAL You wait months for a violently emotional taboo-smashing play by Edward Albee and two come along at once. After the bitter razor-sharp humanity of Who's Afraid of…
THE HOME LIVES OF OUR OWN DEAR LAWYERS… When a topic is painfully current and theatre plunges in, the heart does not always sing with optimism. But Nina Raine is an old hand , a…
TWO CULTURES, ONE TRICKY DEAL David Henry Hwang's play as a hit in the US, and as it premiered at this enterprising little theatre under diretor Andrew Keates, I took an appropriate f…
MOLIERE , MOZART, MARBER AND A MORAL.. Something for everyone here. I like the assonance, alliteration and rhetorical flourishes in Patrick Marber’s reworking of the old Don Juan myth …
A HANDBAG FROM THE PAST.. This is a joyful thing, and it needn't have been. There is always peril in a play you know too well from schooldays and through a score of performance…
AN AMPHIBIOUS SONDHEIM ROMP Here's the god Dionysius, deprived of his Noel-Coward smoking jacket and unconvincingly disguised as Heracles in a lion skin. He's having a panic attack on…
ETERNITY WAS IN OUR LIPS AND EYES…. ..and also, frankly, in the stalls. Some evenings, often here at the RSC, three and a half hours pass in a flash leaving you dazed, affected and tearful…
SPQR: THE ROMANÂ SEASON STRIKES HOME WITH COLD STEEL The trumpet sounds for the RSC's Roman season, the mob is rowdily onstage, and the turbulent politics of 44 BC are reflected thr…
MOTHER COURAGE WITH A CRIMINAL TWIST Yetta Solomon survived the Ukrainian pogroms when Cossacks raped and murdered her family. But they didn't get her. Ten years old in 1919 sh…
THEY GOT RHYTHM..OH YES This is the big one, the Broadway spectacular, the one where rom-com meets top-flight ballets in more costumes than you can blink at; where dream-sequen…
BLUEBIRDS OVER DOVER, RATTIGAN ON A ROLL Yesterday , on her hundredth birthday, Dame Vera Lynn had her face projected on the white cliffs of Dover and a flight of Spitfires was due ov…
BREXIT MEANS… A BIT OF A DOG’S BREAKFAST Rufus Norris of the National Theatre is to be applauded for taking on the post-referendum mood, and making an honest stab at under…
