Thursday, January 15, 2015
Mike Bartlett is the most prolific and talented British playwright to emerge in the past decade. Not only has he created large-scale epics in a variety of styles " from the science-fiction f…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: Diana Nneka Atuona's award-winning debut play was first given a staged reading at last year's Global Summit to End Sexual Violence in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:43AM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Finborough Theatre, London: Although this powerful and award-winning play opened in a controversial production at Theatre Network in Edmonton, Canada, in November 2013, it was originally per…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 8, 2015
Can a country like Russia escape its history? In Moses Raine's new play " transferring from the tiny Old Red Lion pub theatre where it was first seen in May 2014 " the answer seems to be no.…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 4, 2014
Lyttelton, National Theatre, London: Croatian-born, London-resident playwright Tena Stivicic makes her National Theatre debut with a complex and moving epic that spans four generations and 7…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: Last year, at this time, playwright Jack Thorne and director John Tiffany teamed up to create Let the Right One In, a vampire romance which w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AM[SHARE]Monday, December 1, 2014
The Bush is on a roll. Under artistic director Madani Younis, audiences are up, new plays are flowing in and there are plans to build a permanent studio space. Having just staged Radar, its …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Monday, November 24, 2014
Like good wine, some plays improve with age. The first taste is sharp, and tickles the palette; further sips stimulate and impress, but the rich full flavour is only apparent after a few yea…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:01PM[SHARE]Friday, November 21, 2014
Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, Royal Court, London: The latest episode in this venue's current programme of work on the theme of revolution and resistance is a story about a rebellion of pri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:14AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
Much of the recent programming of the Royal Court has flaunted a preference for gimmicky gestures rather than the hard work involved in developing new playwrights. So after its staging of bo…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:01PM[SHARE]Friday, November 14, 2014
Young Vic Clare Studio, London: Up-and-coming director Kate Hewitt is the winner of this year's James Menzies-Kitchin Award and she has chosen to revive Caryl Churchill's 2000 dyst…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 13, 2014
How can you convey the sheer incomprehensibility of ghastly acts? While most playwrights, when confronted by the horrors of genocide, settle for a journalistic approach that is realistic and…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:31PM[SHARE]Hampstead Theatre, London: Roy Williams is one of British theatre's most gifted and prolific playwrights. Although some of his plays have examined black issues, his output is wide-reach…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
This venue's current programming is devoted to examining the state of Britain's public services, with a revival of Nina Raine's Tiger Country, about the NHS, coming next month and, playing n…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:01PM[SHARE]Friday, November 7, 2014
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: In about a year's time, the governments of the world will meet in Paris to act against climate change. This new collaboration between Ch…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 6, 2014
When science and the arts combine they form a new genre, which has the unlovely name of "artsci". But although there have now been several plays about climate change in recent years, can an …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 30, 2014
Park Theatre, London: This revival, of a play first seen at Manchester's Royal Exchange in 2008, reunites playwright Robert Holman with director Tim Stark, who directed Rafts and Dreams…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AM[SHARE]Monday, October 20, 2014
Almeida Theatre, London: The award-winning American actor-director David Cromer brings his 2009 Off-Broadway hit revival of this classic play about small-town life to north London. In the pr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 16, 2014
Studio 1, Trafalgar Studios, London: Jamie Lloyd's second Trafalgar Transformed season, which began with Martin Freeman as Richard III, continues with the first major London revival of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 15, 2014
When it first opened in October 1996, Ayub Khan Din's East Is East was hyped as the best Asian play since, well, ever. And audiences flocked to see this 1970s migrant story both in Birmingha…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Friday, October 10, 2014
Are there any real taboos left? I mean, there have been scores of plays about incest, about abuse and about paedophilia. Have all proverbial stones been turned over? According to Deborah Bru…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:02PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
Writing is a tedious activity, usually requiring a great deal of time spent alone at a desk with a pen, typewriter or laptop. Since a literal representation of this would be death on any sta…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
In the context of recent events in Iraq and Syria, the spectre of the ill-fated Iraq War of 2003 looms large once more. What better time for a revival of master-playwright David Hare's story…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 24, 2014
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: Tim Price specialises in telling true stories about radicals that end badly. After The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning (2012) and Protest S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:37AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Currently, the Royal Court is exploring the theme of revolution and resistance. In its studio space it is staging The Wolf from the Door, Rory Mullarkey's excellent absurdist fantasy of a ve…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Monday, September 22, 2014
Bush Theatre, London: Just as constitutional reform is being discussed in the wake of the Scottish referendum, Chris Thompson's follow-up to his debut Carthage examines the ugly side of…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:50AM[SHARE]Friday, September 19, 2014
Opening on the day after the Scottish Referendum, playwight Chris Thompson's new play has a timely, even incendiary, title. It also recalls the sad little song 'Albion' by Pete Doherty and B…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 17, 2014
The number of plays commemorating the outbreak of the First World War continues to grow, with some already falling casualty to critical fire or to rapidly waning audience interest. Taking th…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 16, 2014
Few contemporary playwrights have enjoyed as many revivals as polymath Philip Ridley. The first two of his 1990s gothic East End trilogy " The Pitchfork Disney and The Fastest Clock in the U…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Friday, September 12, 2014
Wyndham's Theatre, London: Mike Bartlett's wonderfully imaginative "future history play" is the fourth West End transfer for the Almeida Theatre inside a year. Its artistic di…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Dramatic national events such as riots tend to attract verbatim theatre practitioners like smashed shop windows attract looters. In this new play, Alecky Blythe " who specialises in recordin…
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