Friday, February 20, 2015
Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs, London: The Royal Court has an excellent record of producing plays from different countries. Richard Twyman, the director of The Djinns of Eidgah at thi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 11, 2015
Jerwood Theatre Downstairs, Royal Court, London: National treasure Maxine Peake comes to the Royal Court in this new play which reunites playwright Zinnie Harris with director Vicky Feathers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 10, 2015
Is there such a thing as New Writing Pure? By this I mean plays that not only have a really contemporary sense of character, plot and dialogue, but are also written in a distinctly individua…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 5, 2015
Kay Adshead's new play about the Arab Spring has a beguiling premise: to tell the human stories behind the headlines. We all remember the news footage of the Arab Spring in 2011, from Tunisi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:31PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 27, 2015
The history play has roots that go deep into our culture. We love to see stories that are kitted out in fancy dress, and long to savour a past that resonates with our present. In the case of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 20, 2015
The future is a bad place. Most of our predictions about climate change and the world's resources seem to come from a mindset of mute despair. In New Atlantis " part of the Enlightenment Caf…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:01PM[SHARE]Monday, January 19, 2015
Sometimes the deadliest violence is silent. The publicity for Caroline Horton's new absurdist satire, Islands, points out that Oxfam estimates that some $18.5 trillion is siphoned out of the…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:00PM[SHARE]Friday, January 16, 2015
Maria Studio, Young Vic, London: Mike Bartlett's short, sharp splinter of a play was first staged at the Sheffield Crucible Studio in 2013, and then visited New York. Now remounted, wit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AM[SHARE]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…
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