Friday, December 11, 2020
From a weather room to dating in the bar, the theatre is inviting audiences to experience 'editions' of a weekly paper staged in its building. Our critic gets an exclusive look
From an alley…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Thursday, December 10, 2020
Almeida theatre, LondonDevised with the company, this is a bold but rough-hewn and perplexing production lifted by soothing music
'This is not a corona play," the production notes state. It …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Wednesday, December 9, 2020
Hampstead theatre, LondonThis revival of Harold Pinter's two-hander about a pair of Beckettian hitmen raises questions for the age of strongman politics
There is an "amusing story" about the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 8, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonSimon Russell Beale stars in an economical Dickens adaptation that reminds us of the richness of live theatre
What has made this Victorian tale of child poverty, stalki…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54PM[SHARE]Sunday, December 6, 2020
The Big House, LondonA mixture of surrealism and satire renders Maggie Norris's production both unnerving and puzzling
Covid-19 dramas have kept us afloat during lockdown. There have been on…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, December 1, 2020
The award has been won by Ahlam and Amy Trigg, who beat more than 1,000 other entries, in initiative to dismantle stereotypes about women's writing
The inaugural Women's Prize for Playwritin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PM[SHARE]Friday, November 27, 2020
Available onlineThe experience of black frontline workers in the Covid crisis is brought to harrowing life in these plays based on interviews with a teacher and mental health worker
As the C…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 26, 2020
Available onlineAlan Ayckbourn plays a man looking for answers about the death of his musical prodigy daughter in an audio version of his 1994 work that keeps us guessing till the end
When A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 25, 2020
Available onlineIn an intimate and often traumatic one-woman performance, Pepa Duarte explores her hostile relationship with cravings, calorie-counting and identity, as a bean soup bubbles o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:18AM[SHARE]Friday, November 20, 2020
The playwright and activist formerly known as Eve Ensler changed the world with The Vagina Monologues. Her next project hopes to be just as empowering " but this time she's listening to, not…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 19, 2020
Available onlineGet that blindfold on! Morpheus's interactive horror is scary " but teaming up with strangers is fun
We have been told to bring a blindfold and headphones for a "terrifying s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 18, 2020
Available online Staffordshire's Anglo-Saxon booty inspires a host of short plays by writers including April De Angelis and Darren Sharp
A metal detectorist from the West Midlands lists his …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PM[SHARE]Monday, November 16, 2020
Available onlineThe Queen's theatre in Hornchurch seeks to set the record straight on the county's much maligned image with four monologues that fizz
When Mike Leigh situated his social sati…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 12, 2020
Available onlineLouise Orwin whispers monstrous imaginings into your ear in an aural interrogation of the horror genre that touches on pandemic fears
'What's your favourite scary movie?" ask…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:54PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 10, 2020
Mike Bartlett's monologue brings us the inner life of a despotic public figure and Luke Barnes's over-the-phone drama is profoundly creepy
A powerful man has broken the rules of lockdown, fl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:32AM[SHARE]Monday, November 9, 2020
Available onlineThese bite-sized, beautifully written short plays give a powerful voice to aggrieved heroines from Greek and Roman mythology
This three-part series enters the hearts and mind…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AM[SHARE]Friday, November 6, 2020
Available onlineJuliet Stevenson, Linda Bassett and others bring to life a fantasy dinner party thrown as the Nazis overrun France
All does not go smoothly at Steven Carl McCasland's fantasy…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 5, 2020
Olivier theatre, LondonMichael Balogun delivers this monologue " a sequel to Clint Dyer and Roy Williams' Death of England " with deftly controlled energy
'There have been other moments in h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 4, 2020
Crucible, Sheffield/onlineA three-woman cast powerfully captures the shifting fortunes of a Nigerian family down the decades, from Ibadan to Britain
With a cast of three on an almost bare st…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 3, 2020
Chichester Festival theatre/onlineDirector Tinuke Craig gives Sarah Kane's one-act play an edge-of-the-seat tension as the four characters move between hope and despair
Crave was the one-act…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:06PM[SHARE]Monday, November 2, 2020
OnlineBeginning at the end, Jonathan Coe's novel about the scheming Winshaws is turned into an audacious investigative whodunnit
Jonathan Coe's satirical novel about the venality of the That…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Sunday, November 1, 2020
Nottingham Playhouse; ZoomThe actor was joined by Adrian Scarborough for a seasonal dose of phone calls from the other side and undead criminality
'The oldest and strongest emotion of mankin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 30, 2020
Rose theatre, KingstonWilly Russell's play works well in a socially-distanced staging, and the questions it asks about the value of arts and education feel more pertinent than ever
This 40th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 29, 2020
She went from rave diva with Nomad to winning her third Olivier award on Sunday for Death of a Salesman. Yet the London actor isn't immune to the storms battering theatre
Sharon D Clarke was…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 25, 2020
Watermill theatre, NewburyThis powerful, affecting drama ranges over the pioneering aviator's adventurous career and her final terrible moments
Amy Johnson is, in many ways, still the epitom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Nottingham PlayhouseIn James Graham's Covid romcom, a couple who have just met decide to quarantine together, while in a parallel narrative they face isolation alone
The playwright James Gra…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AM[SHARE]Friday, October 23, 2020
Immersive LDN A revitalised, socially distanced version of the F Scott Fitzgerald novel keeps the jazz age alive with song, dance and spectacle
Last year, in the "before", The Great Gatsby …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 20, 2020
This funny, tragic and deeply unsettling one-woman tour de force shows who the US constitution serves " and who it lets down. The statistics alone are horrifying
Heidi Schreck tells us she f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:36AM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonTamsin Greig and Maxine Peake play long-suffering women, gravely put-upon by the men in their lives, in Alan Bennett's Talking Heads
The first monologue in this double-…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2020
Bridge theatre, LondonThere are fine performances by Imelda Staunton and Lucian Msamati in this pair of Talking Heads
The latest two live instalments of Alan Bennett's Talking Heads series, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2020
Tristan Bates theatre, London, and online In her lockdown romance, playwright Gemma Lawrence explores desire, isolation and homophobia
A remote love story seems so fitting for our times. Th…
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