Sunday, October 16, 2022
The Hope theatre, LondonThe characters might be the Brontës themselves or they might be from novels such as Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights, mashed-up with wandering strays from a zombie …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55AM[SHARE]Friday, October 14, 2022
Reading Rep theatrePlaywright Gary McNair turns the gothic novel into a brilliantly bewitching show performed by Audrey Brisson
The small square stage looks more fitted up for a standup gig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 13, 2022
Harold Pinter theatre, LondonRevived with a superb cast, CP Taylor's play about a professor embracing nazism is fascinating psychological theatre with the feel of a fever dream
There is an i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:19AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 12, 2022
Available onlineA virtual exchange imagined between two theatrical greats is full of literary references, mannered jokes and inconsequential chatter
This virtual conversation between Samuel …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 11, 2022
Southwark Playhouse, LondonJenna Fincken's one-woman play, inspired by real stories, gets inside the head of a young woman in a toxic relationship
Jenna Fincken's one-woman play anatomises a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:13AM[SHARE]Monday, October 10, 2022
Half Moon theatre, LondonElayne Ogbeta's play explores intergenerational love as a man struggles to tell his granddaughter that he is leaving Britain
I have not told my nieces what Grandad A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, October 9, 2022
Duke of York's Theatre, LondonRobert Icke's combative 2019 play about medical ethics, identity politics and antisemitism returns to the West End to divide and challenge audiences
The return …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:49PM[SHARE]Friday, October 7, 2022
Rodreguez King-Dorset takes the stage as three protagonists in a coruscating drama about the Windrush scandal
Rodreguez King-Dorset's drama about racism and the Windrush scandal first took l…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 4, 2022
Hampstead theatre, LondonGeorgina Burns' debut play about an overburdened counselling unit presents perceptive insights and no easy answers
A therapist at an NHS counselling unit jokes darkl…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43AM[SHARE]Monday, October 3, 2022
Available onlineWriter Jessica Walker sings strongly but this tale of family dysfunction and abuse doesn't hang together
It is reassuring to see online shows being made beyond pandemic neces…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:37PM[SHARE]Sunday, October 2, 2022
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonGary Owen's magnificent one-woman monologue brings Greek tragedy to Cardiff and reveals the terrible emotional costs of our societal shortfalls
This monologue was f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:19AM[SHARE]Friday, September 30, 2022
Bridge theatre, LondonTurning to a lesser-staged work by Ibsen might seem risky, but Nicholas Hytner's production is held together by some powerhouse performances
Reviving a lesser-staged Ib…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 29, 2022
National Theatre, LondonDirector Lyndsey Turner misses the opportunity to give Arthur Miller's allegory modern resonance with a too-faithful interpretation
Arthur Miller's play used the Sale…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 28, 2022
Royal Court, London Jonathan Freedland has turned 180,000 words drawn from interviews into a potent verbatim play about antisemitism and the blindspots of liberal institutions. The results f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:43PM[SHARE]Monday, September 26, 2022
Audible Originals Delivered with rage, as a woman reckoning with her past, this audio drama written and performed by Jumbo takes too long to get to the point, stalling in domesticity
Cush Ju…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AM[SHARE]Audible Originals What happened next to headstrong Lydia Bennet, the most rock'n'roll of the Pride and Prejudice sisters? This intriguing take by Sarah Page reunites Jessie Buckley and Johnn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 25, 2022
The Old Vic, LondonWhat begins as a broad takedown of the liberal left morphs into an engrossing and textured debate on social justice, vaccination and the pull of conspiracy theory
Eureka D…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2022
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London At first, Anthony Neilson's play is a bewildering affair, but its sombre aftermath imparts understanding with crushing effect
Anthony Neilson's 2004 dram…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 21, 2022
How do you give the star-cross'd lovers a lift? Drop them in 12th-century Japan and add a classic Queen album. As it opens in Britain, A Night at the Kabuki sends shivers down our writer's s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PM[SHARE]Jermyn Street theatre, LondonA bestselling romance writer leaves his wife for a glamorous new partner in this 1940 play whose gender politics feel toothless now
Dorothy L Sayers is not prima…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:37PM[SHARE]Arcola, LondonKyo Choi's shocking and intelligent play tells the story of a Korean woman who was forced into military sex slavery for Japanese troops at the age of 16
The Apology dramatises …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2022
Enid Blyton's adventurers roam the stage in a new show that considers the climate crisis, gender identity and the impact of the pandemic on children
Anyone who has grown up reading The Famou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:43AM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2022
Bush theatre, LondonWaleed Akhtar's bewitching love story between a gym bunny and an asylum seeker raises urgent issues
The P Word is a love story with shades of When Harry Met Sally: it has…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:13AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2022
Kiln theatre, LondonMoira Buffini's clever political comedy returns, educating a new generation on Margaret Thatcher's legacy through her weekly encounters with the monarch
It is unnerving t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:55PM[SHARE]Hampstead theatre, LondonThe venerable director's drama about a doctor's splintering family broaches huge issues but never makes a unified whole
The pandemic has brought out the budding play…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 13, 2022
Almeida, LondonA family fight about politics, policing and race in Dipo Baruwa-Etti's play but the ominous early signs lead nowhere
The Clinic starts off with a satirical set piece as a Blac…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM[SHARE]Sunday, September 11, 2022
Regent's Park Open Air Theatre, LondonInua Ellams updates the Sophoclean drama into a beguiling piece about faith and prejudice, and casts a suspicious eye at politicians who betray their ow…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:03AM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2022
Young Vic, LondonHans Kesting is spellbinding as an anguished man facing up to his abusive father in Ivo van Hove's adaptation of the book by Édouard Louis
A one-minute silence marking t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:37AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2022
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonThis adaptation of the classic 1967 film is packed with fun despite losing its way in the second half
Attempting to adapt Jacques Tati's 1967 masterpiece is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:55AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 7, 2022
Donmar Warehouse, LondonThe stage adaptation of Kavita Puri's extraordinary oral history project is at times superficial and blunt but also deeply moving
Few English-language writers have ca…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:13PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 6, 2022
Charing Cross theatre, London This soulful celebration of adventurer Annie Londonderry takes time to get into gear, but newcomer Liv Andrusier gives a superb performance
Annie Cohen Kopchovs…
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