Thursday, October 1, 2015
Everyman, LiverpoolThis timely adaptation has a Europhobic prime minister, Odysseus as a politician turned migrant " and a dead pig jokeLast year, Simon Armitage boldly gave us a version of …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:07AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 30, 2015
Finborough, LondonFrom a soldier grappling with shellshock to a study of miners' wives, this selection of northern dramas brings the early 20th century aliveBetween 1908 and 1917, Annie Horn…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:16AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Lyric Hammersmith, LondonPerformed by a fine ensemble, this adaptation of the picaresque novel is a good night out and a rousing tribute to feminist principlesLaura Wade's adaptation of Sara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:14AM[SHARE]Monday, September 28, 2015
Arcola, LondonBarney Norris's poetic, character-driven portrait of a changing Hampshire seizes your interest and never lets goAll good dramatists carve out their own territory. After an awar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:21AM[SHARE]Friday, September 25, 2015
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonMarina Carr showcases her fascination with outsiders in this emotional and intelligent take on a classic " with contradictory consequencesMarina Carr, in plays s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonEliot's baroque drawing-room drama presents a couple's faltering relationship as a spiritual trial, echoing his own troubled marriageOnce a popular West End …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 23, 2015
Royal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonGregory Doran's imaginative production, in which the action is played out on a largely bare stage, allows the words to weave their spellShakespe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:03AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 22, 2015
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonSteven Berkoff plays the Iraqi dictator with virtuosic menace in Anthony Horowitz's admirable yet troubling comedyCan you have a comedy about tyranny? Chaplin…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:13PM[SHARE]Hampstead theatre, LondonRussell Beale is as coyly flirtatious as ever in a merry, if overstuffed, tale of a trailblazing Georgian comedianIan Kelly's play, based on his biography of the sam…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:58AM[SHARE]Monday, September 21, 2015
Royal Court, LondonDavid Morrissey and Reece Shearsmith give pitch-perfect performances in the theatrical maverick's first London premiere in 12 years Related: Martin McDonagh interview: 'Th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09AM[SHARE]Friday, September 18, 2015
Lyttelton, LondonA shortened version of the acclaimed Bristol Old Vic production has much to admire, but inevitably loses the fine detail of the great novelAcclaimed last year at the Bristol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
Harold Pinter Theatre, LondonKristin Scott Thomas and Lia Williams are currently alternating the two female roles in Harold Pinter's 1971 play with Rufus Sewell as the man in the middle. The…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38PM[SHARE]Bush, LondonTanya Ronder's play probes the clash between corporate career and private conscience via one conflicted familyYou can't accuse the British theatre of ignoring climate change: in …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Adelphi, LondonFrom Cyndi Lauper's score to impressive lead performances, this winsome men-in-frocks show puts its best foot forwardThis theatre seems to be specialising in factory-set music…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:15PM[SHARE]Watching dramatisations of Chekhov's early short stories, Michael Billington finds the writer sketching out his caustic portrait of the Russian character " complete with drunken fishermen an…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:45AM[SHARE]Monday, September 14, 2015
Noël Coward theatre, London Anna Ziegler's new play asserts the contribution of 1950s chemist Rosalind Franklin to the discovery of DNA and asks: is science still sexist?You could hardly …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:44PM[SHARE]Old Vic, LondonEverything that art can do to boost this revival of Tennessee Williams's 1959 play has been done. Marianne Elliott's production is first-rate. The cast, led by Kim Cattrall, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2015
Aldeburgh, Suffolk Ninth time round, the festival showcases three impeccable new plays using sharp writing to deal with testing topicsNow in its ninth year and transferred from Halesworth to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:26AM[SHARE]Friday, September 11, 2015
He was one of Britain's most shocking, uncompromising playwrights. Then he fell out of favour. But now Edward Bond is back. He grants Michael Billington a rare interview'I'm an extremist,&qu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
Old Vic, London Tamsin Oglesby's play dissecting the British education system packs a punch yet still has fun in the playgroundMatthew Warchus begins an ambitious, eight-play first season at…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:09PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
Stephen Joseph theatre, ScarboroughThe playwright directs a well-acted and ruefully comic view of marital breakdown, mayhem and murderGiven that this is Alan Ayckbourn's 79th play, it is har…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:41AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 8, 2015
Orange Tree, RichmondA rare revival of Sharman Macdonald's quietly haunting play reveals uncomfortable truths about the oppressiveness of family life and sexual attitudes in wartime Scotland…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:49AM[SHARE]Monday, September 7, 2015
Lyttelton, LondonI sometimes feel I know Alan Bennett's family almost as well as my own. But, although these two "recollections" contain material that will be familiar to readers o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:07AM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonRory Mullarkey's adaptation is linguistically rich, but Adele Thomas's production can't seem to settle on a styleAfter Robert Icke's free adaptation of Aeschylus's…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:26AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 3, 2015
Richmond theatre, London A well put together production of Terence Rattigan's 1942 play about a love triangle among RAF bombersTerence Rattigan's 1942 play about wartime bomber crews enjoyed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:38AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 2, 2015
Dorfman, LondonDenise Gough is superlative as an actor who breaks down mid-show and is forced into recovery, in a vibrant play that draws parallels between theatre and rehabDuncan Macmillan …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55AM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 1, 2015
Finborough, London Matthew Wilkinson's play about the rage of a grieving man is given acute expression by Cal MacAninch and Thusitha JayasunderaWritten and directed by Matthew Wilkinson, thi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:30AM[SHARE]Friday, August 28, 2015
St James's, London An anthology highlighting Jewish songwriters' contributions to the American musical, from the 1930s to the present, is at its most delightful in the first halfThe title de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
Olivier, LondonThe National production of Timberlake Wertenbaker's historical play shows convicts and captors alike escaping their colonial chains in shared expressionSince it is only two ye…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30AM[SHARE]Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Theatre Royal, BathTerry Johnson's adaptation of the 2005 film is a defiantly patriotic piece with a delightful score, rousing ensemble and first-rate performancesIt's a cliche that, ever si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07PM[SHARE]How do you even begin to pick the world's 101 greatest plays? The Guardian's theatre critic explains how he approached this controversial task for his new book " and admits he is already hav…
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