Bergen International Festival - Preview Around 30 digital events to watch from anywhere around the world Bergen International Festival, the largest curated festival for music and performing …
New monologue is a complex and ambiguous account of a digital obsession After months of watching theatre on screens large, medium and tiny, I definitely feel great about going to see a live…
Live performance, film and digital play combine in this misfired interactive experience There is a promising production struggling to get out of this muddled concept. Creation Theatre (here …
Adrian Lukis proves himself far better at portraying Austen's rake than he is at writing him It wasn't Jane Austen's subtlest move, naming her roguish soldier George Wickham. As countless G…
A vivid and credible production that is also limited by its form To accept or not accept a donation: that's certainly the burning political question of the moment.
Philip Ridley's new monologue is a dazzling masterclass in storytelling I think I can safely say that polymath playwright Philip Ridley has had a good lockdown. In March last year, when The…
Overcoming lockdown challenges, a broadcast first for RSC It has been a hard coming for this RSC Winter's Tale but, mirroring the action of the play itself, considerable travail has brought …
Yasmeen Khan's spoof has a big heart Oscar Wilde's fabulous play satirised Victorian England and contained a shedload of quotable quips. Now Yasmeen Khan has written an updated and uprooted …
Affectionate aplomb from Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in Ben Brown's new play There's such a genial feel to the pairing of Oliver Ford Davies and Stephen Boxer in Ben Brown's new pl…
Three encounters with the great actor who has died at the age of 52 Each generation is given one actress who can do everything and is loved by all. There was Judi Dench, and then there was I…
Simon Godwin's debut film is part dressed-down rehearsal, part cinematic flourish Shakespeare's enduring tale of star-crossed lovers is especially pertinent in a pandemic. The fatal plot twi…
Third instalment of the irreverent series takes on Boris, star signs, and casual sexism "The crocus of hope is, er, poking through the frost." When he uttered that dodgy metaphor back in Feb…
Jenny Caron Hall's production, with sister Rebecca starring, offers 'mechanical' treats Just what the Zoom era has brought to theatre " to performers and audiences alike " is something we wi…
Mark Ravenhill's new play is a fragmentary audio autobiography Does a subjective theatre piece encourage a subjective critical response? I think it might, especially when it's a memory play…
The theatre's local community assembles a strange little show about the apocalypse "Your task is to imagine the future." That's what the citizens of Assembly, a new streamed production perfo…
Film version of the Oscar Wilde classic is a brilliant critique of the digital age Let's face it, most adaptations of classic novels are disappointingly pedestrian. They are so middle-of-the…
Latest show from Chris Bush is a celebration of local stoicism and wry humour All theatre is local " if you can't get to where a show is playing you can't see it. That is, until a pandemic c…
Co-production with Manchester International Festival, Marshmallow Laser Feast and Philharmonia Orchestra brings Shakespeare's metaphor to life Which of Shakespeare's plays is most plagued by…
Writer-producer Clare Norburn elaborates upon her self-isolation online play Love in the Lockdown started out as my "Lockdown 1.0 project" - although, of course, we didn't call it Lockdo…
Film version of 2019 monologue about institutional racism is brilliant As the events of last year made clear, the police have a problem with race on both sides of the Atlantic. In the UK, B…
Playful interactive show casts audience members as amateur detectives I'll admit, I've never been a fan of murder mysteries. Patience is not one of my virtues; if I can't work something out…
Jemma Redgrave and Adrian Scarborough excel in Peter Barnes radio solos brought to screen The four monologues that make up Barnes' People were filmed in the grand surroundings of the Theatre…
Celie learns how to live from the strong, rebellious women she encounters This production of The Color Purple is an extraordinary testimony to the fact that many of the twentieth century's m…
Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani in their skins in Lolita Chakrabarti's new play Contact without touch: among the many readjustments that the pandemic has brought to theatre, its demands that…
The tilt between our actual selves and our idealised selves will never cease to be an existential tension This stunningly delivered online monologue from a bereaved widow to her husband feel…