Tuesday, July 2, 2013
White Bear, LondonWhen the maverick playwright and director Charles Marowitz ran the Open Space theatre in London he did a fascinating adaptation of Wilde's The Critic as Artist. In this new…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PM[SHARE]By 'adapting' and updating historical texts " as the Royal Shakespeare Company is currently doing " aren't we just writing off the past?Do we need to rewrite the classics? Increasingly, peop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AM[SHARE]Friday, June 28, 2013
Palace theatre, LondonDerren Brown begs us all, journalists included, not to reveal anything he has done in the course of two-and-a-half hours. Seeing him for the first time, however, I feel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:33AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 26, 2013
Duchess, LondonLenny Henry has won his spurs as a Shakespearean actor in Othello and The Comedy of Errors. Now he takes on the titanic role of Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences which won…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:55PM[SHARE]Regent's Park, LondonFollowing stage versions of works by William Golding, EL Doctorow and Harper Lee, this novel-hungry venue now brings us a new adaptation of Pride and Prejudice in time f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:04AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 25, 2013
Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, London Reviews roundup: what the other papers thought In pictures: behind the scenes at Charlie and the Chocolate Factory Interview: Director Sam Mendes talks to E…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:20PM[SHARE]Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, LondonChocs away! At last, we get to see the much touted stage musical based on Roald Dahl's children's classic. Although there's been much talk of the technical c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Crucible, SheffieldTim Firth's first play, 1992's Neville's Island, showed four men stranded in the Lake District during a disastrous team-building exercise. This new musical comedy, for whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PM[SHARE]Sunday, June 23, 2013
Minerva, ChichesterDavid Edgar has always been hooked on the process of politics. And in this fascinating, if occasionally flawed, play he pre-empts the forthcoming TV adaptation of Andrew A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:16PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 20, 2013
Donmar Warehouse, LondonNo one is better than playwright Conor McPherson at dramatising the loneliness of the Irish male. Following a brilliant revival of The Weir at the Donmar earlier …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:46PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Wilton's Music Hall, LondonFarce is a serious business. It needs to be played with po-faced gravity to bring out its characters' desperation. But this evening of four short Victorian farces,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Noel Coward, LondonImagine a dramatic hero who stands no chance of being kissed "unless it was by a blind girl" and of whom it is said, by an adoptive aunt, "you'd see nicer eyes on a goat".…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:00PM[SHARE]Finborough, LondonIt's hard to believe that it is 30 years since Doug Lucie's scathing portrait of a self-absorbed, style-conscious generation first appeared. I've never forgotten Mike Bradw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:58PM[SHARE]Tricycle, LondonIn his last play, The Faith Machine, which opened at the Royal Court in 2011, Alexi Kaye Campbell dealt with the conflict between religious idealism and the free market. Now …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:56PM[SHARE]Friday, June 14, 2013
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonThomas Middleton's brilliant 1605 comedy has been cut, "edited" and updated to 1950s Soho by Sean Foley and Phil Porter for the Royal Shakespeare Company. Whether pa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:25PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 13, 2013
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 02:00AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 12, 2013
Olivier, LondonI don't think The Amen Corner is a great play, but I get the feeling it is one that its author, James Baldwin, was compelled to write back in 1955. It also gets from Rufu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:21AM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 11, 2013
Royal Exchange, ManchesterBlanche McIntyre is one of the flotilla of female directors coming to the forefront of British theatre. But, although she's assembled a cracking cast for this reviv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:43AM[SHARE]Monday, June 10, 2013
Theatro Technis/Jermyn Street theatre, LondonAside from Lysistrata, the plays of Aristophanes rarely get an outing these days. But these two wildly different updates prove one simple point: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:03PM[SHARE]Friday, June 7, 2013
Cockpit, LondonBack in 1973, Kennedy's Children by Robert Patrick fondly surveyed the 1960s through the monologues of five characters seated in a bar. Using a similar format, Blair's Childre…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 6, 2013
Young Vic, LondonIf there is a problem with Belarus Free Theatre, it lies in deciding whether you're responding to them aesthetically or politically. But, while it's easy to admire their res…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 5, 2013
National Theatre, LondonEugene O'Neill's 1928 play is famous for many things: its inordinate length, its prolonged asides and its extensive portrait of one woman, Nina Leeds, over the course…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 4, 2013
Drayton Arms, LondonAfter a surfeit of Miss Julies in London, it's refreshing to find this rare August Strindberg one-act play popping up in an attractive space above a South Kensington…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PM[SHARE]Friday, May 31, 2013
Bristol Old VicI normally associate the 30-year-old Complicite with extravagantly theatrical explorations of world literature. Here, however, they have come up with their first family show b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:43AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 30, 2013
Hampstead theatre, LondonDavid Mamet reminds me of some veteran pugilist with a pile of trophies yet still anxious for a fight: the old technique is still there, even if the punches no longe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:34AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 29, 2013
Almeida, LondonI complained of Lucy Kirkwood's last play, NSFW at London's Royal Court, that it was too short: no such problems with this gloriously rich, mind-expanding three-hour play, whi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:10AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 28, 2013
Orange Tree, RichmondThe therapist-patient relationship is rarely dramatised, but it lies at the heart of this sharp, perceptive comedy by David Lewis, which uses the circular structure of S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:11PM[SHARE]Monday, May 27, 2013
Corn Exchange, BrightonThe Brighton festival's theatre programme ended with this extraordinary import from Argentina in which five actors recalled, with the aid of photos, letters, home movi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:39PM[SHARE]Friday, May 24, 2013
Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonNo one any longer has to make a case for this once-despised play. But, whether it is viewed as a neo-Senecan study in stoic acceptance of grief or a Tarantino-like e…
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