Thursday, May 9, 2019
Birmingham RepThis staging of the bestseller loses the story's gut-wrenching power in a sea of lighthearted flourish
Khaled Hosseini's bestselling book The Kite Runner is about fathers, sons…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PM[SHARE]Friday, April 26, 2019
Rose theatre, KingstonRona Munro's adaptation of the Louis de Bernières classic cuts back the love story to drum home the bloody trauma of conflict
Louis de Bernières's Greek island epic a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, April 24, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonUnfettered excess and predatory humour combine in a timely reflection on big business
Jerry Sterner's play about Wall Street avarice first opened off-Broadway two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM[SHARE]Friday, April 19, 2019
Soho theatre, LondonThere's comedy and mystery but darker themes are under-explored in this original but tricksy meta-theatre production
Anthony (Ciarán Owens) is a thirtysomething gay ma…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:21AM[SHARE]The Watermill Theatre, NewburyThe arrival of the kind-hearted and introverted Parisian on the UK stage is a magical and emotional triumph of adaptation
The formidable success of Amélie the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:55AM[SHARE]Sunday, April 14, 2019
Among the protesters heading for parliament are Noah's family and Ade Adepitan as God in a suit. April De Angelis talks about turning the biblical flood into riotous drama
On Monday, a day o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AM[SHARE]Thursday, April 11, 2019
A Piece of the Continent, a festival celebrating the unifying influence of European theatre, includes dramas about patriarchy, dogmatism and dementia
As Britain seeks to finalise its divorce…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AM[SHARE]Tuesday, April 2, 2019
Blocked from entering Tibet, he simply walked in through the Himalayas, hiding from Chinese soldiers. As his play about riots in the region is finally staged, the Indian writer talks about l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis drama inspired by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is ripe for revival but the story asks more questions than it answers
James Phillips calls it the "perfect time" …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 13, 2019
New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion
The multiracial plays of Athol Fugard …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:56AM[SHARE]Sunday, March 10, 2019
The award-winning actor and writer on All About Eve, celebrity culture and the perils of not actually being Welsh
Monica Dolan is a Bafta-winning actor and writer. Born in Middlesbrough, her…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AM[SHARE]Friday, March 8, 2019
Gate theatre, LondonA story from a Somali pirate kicks off this outlandish comic critique of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
Wolfram Lotz's surreally comic critique of Joseph Conrad's H…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 6, 2019
Royal Court, LondonClean Break's satirical look at the stereotypes around life in jail ends up undone by its own artifice
Inside Bitch is a drama about drama and its misrepresentations. Four…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:49PM[SHARE]Monday, March 4, 2019
Salisbury PlayhouseThis frenetic rewind for Agatha Christie's mystery splits between Hollywood homage and send-up
In a bare room, an elderly woman sleeps in an armchair, sprained ankle on a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 28, 2019
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonBarney Norris's adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker winner about the perils of blind duty speaks to modern Britain
'The play must be unlike the book or the…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 20, 2019
Serving the cucumber sandwiches in a future Britain, Tara Arts and Two Gents present Oscar Wilde's classic as an urgent tale of migrant survival " with only two actors
Ayesha Casely-Hayford …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:09AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 13, 2019
Playground theatre, London This attempt to delve into the disgraced movie mogul's mind finds rage, denial and hateThe theatre's promotional blurb warns that Steven Berkoff will go "where no …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PM[SHARE]Sunday, February 10, 2019
Birmingham Repertory theatreJoe Penhall's play about a young black patient caught between two clashing white doctors is incendiary, intellectually rich and ever topicalWhen Blue/Orange was f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 31, 2019
Vaults, LondonA mother and daughter have profound discussions about identity but this drama is still searching for its centreA Muslim mother and daughter are preparing for Ramadan when their…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Monday, January 21, 2019
The Egg, BathNick Makoha's fragmented and vertiginous account of his treacherous journey to Britain is a story of our timesOn the left of the stage, a screen projects the Miltonic line: "No …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54AM[SHARE]Saturday, January 19, 2019
With an adaptation of Noughts and Crosses set to tour the UK and her anthology of Muslim writing picked for Emma Watson's book club, the prolific British writer is as busy as ever. Here she …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AM[SHARE]Friday, January 11, 2019
Old Red Lion, LondonLiv Warden's play explores what happens to the daughters of a powerful man who is charged with GBHWhere are the women closest to once-powerful predators who have been und…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AM[SHARE]Monday, January 7, 2019
Park theatre, LondonPeter Duncan gives an earnest performance in his daughter's play about a music-hall legend with a dark pastThe Dame has a tender genesis story: writer Katie Duncan was in…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:03PM[SHARE]Thursday, December 13, 2018
Dorfman, LondonAnthony Neilson's adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe's short story has a sexual frisson, schlocky gore and a shape-shifting setThe Tell-Tale Heart is Edgar Allan Poe's short story …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 14, 2018
Gate theatre, LondonThis inventive performance of Kincaid's celebrated 1988 essay has the barbed satire and bold message of the original'The thing you have always suspected about yourself th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:42PM[SHARE]Friday, November 9, 2018
Theatre Royal Bath A village choir's harmony is upset by a sly newcomer in William Gaminara's satire of snobbery, secrets and singing contestsThe Nightingales are a group of a cappella singe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18AM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
After a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds 'frightening and debilitating' now, though, is leaving the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:04PM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 31, 2018
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonTeenaged soccer players in the US suburbs laugh, gossip and fight in Sarah DeLappe's playIn Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer-nominated debut play, the Wolves are …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PM[SHARE]Monday, October 29, 2018
Arcola, LondonDaniel York Loh's twin tale of the Chinese Labour Corps members who head to Europe during the first world world has emotional resonance but fails to come alive on stage The all…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 28, 2018
As the award-winning writer's new play opens at the Royal Court, the actors involved talk about breaking boundaries in British theatre and tucker green's innovative approachBefore the Royal …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 24, 2018
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonA cod-scientific lecture on animal behaviour is given a comic twist in a surreal show that is too cutesyIsabella Rossellini went back to university to study anima…
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