Wednesday, June 7, 2017
Olivier, LondonAnne-Marie Duff shines in a rich, strange and often baffling drama that shows the privatisation of land as a pivotal moment in our nation's history'We are not here for reasons…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Monday, June 5, 2017
Piccadilly theatre, LondonAn ingenious jigsaw-like design and strong performances lift this revival, but the main draw, Miranda Hart, is just too likable and the politics seem datedAt the cu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 30, 2017
Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonThis, of all Shakespeare's plays, badly needs a shot in the arm " and it receives a powerful one in this production by Gregory Doran, the RSC's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54PM[SHARE]Monday, May 29, 2017
Finborough, LondonAn Iranian teacher is confronted by one of her former pupils in Matt Parvin's claustrophobic two-hander about social and racial prejudiceMatt Parvin is a young, Dorset-born…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Friday, May 26, 2017
Orange Tree, RichmondBranden Jacobs-Jenkins's extraordinary play is both an adaptation of a 19th-century melodrama and a dazzling postmodernist critique of itIf I say that this bizarrely bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 25, 2017
Shakespeare's Globe, London Sailor-suited dancers and a disco soundtrack add a party atmosphere to Shakespeare's comedy but drown out its melancholyThe peremptory treatment of Emma Rice by t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:33AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 23, 2017
Old Vic, LondonWhereas Georg Büchner's original masterpiece allows audience to fill in the blanks, Thorne's adaptation piles the pressure on the title characterThis production has a lot goi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 21, 2017
Attenborough Centre, BrightonRichard Nelson prophetically captures sense of unease as early as first play when character asks: "Do you feel like something really bad is about to happen?"What…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AM[SHARE]Friday, May 19, 2017
The Swan, Stratford-upon-AvonPhil Porter's take on Plautus's bombastic farce is a crowdpleasing show that reminds us of the ancient playwright's immense influence on modern comedyThe Roman c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 18, 2017
Menier Chocolate Factory, LondonMaureen Lipman's brisk bureaucrat is a perfect complement to Felicity Kendal's gutsy exhibitionist in a revival of Peter Shaffer's heritage satireYou might ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 17, 2017
Young Vic, LondonThe Atonement director presents the story of the astronomer with a kaleidoscopic theatricality that increasingly detracts from Brecht's textIt is a sign of Bertolt Brecht's …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AM[SHARE]Swan, Stratford-on-AvonA reactionary pope dies, only to be succeeded by a seeming liberal who soon reverts to institutional conservatism. You could hardly have a more topical play than this.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 16, 2017
Octagon, Bolton Cathy Tyson stars in Timberlake Wertenbaker's ambitious play which debates the choices politicised women face, from ancient Athens to modern BritainTimberlake Wertenbaker's n…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AM[SHARE]Monday, May 15, 2017
Arcola theatre, LondonHicks has the power to give individual words a wealth of meaning in his portrayal of a villain driven by infantile dreams and private demonsHot on the heels of an accla…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:48PM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2017
Minerva, ChichesterA Jewish boy and his family's black maid are at the heart of this witty, pulsing musical that takes in everything from klezmer to Tamla MotownSince this musical has book a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AM[SHARE]Apollo, LondonFriends of Dorothy may be diverted by this musical prequel to The Wizard of Oz. But, although it has been a hit in New York, it seems all too typical of the modern Broadway mus…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:33AM[SHARE]Thursday, May 11, 2017
Theatre Royal Stratford East, London A moving adaptation of the award-winning novel, with added songs, explores the mental toll on an abducted woman and her childMy queasiness about the subj…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Wyndham's, LondonTim Pigott-Smith gives the performance of his career in Mike Bartlett's intelligent meditation on the pressures and purpose of monarchy today' King Charles III: a West End t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PM[SHARE]Olivier, LondonThe celebrated writer-director's attempt to radically update and reclaim the story is hamstrung by a terrible text and an over-complex stagingIt's not been a great month for c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:05AM[SHARE]Hampstead Theatre, LondonMore symbolist poem than play, Oscar Wilde's once-banned Salome invites a strong directorial concept. But where Steven Berkoff memorably gave us a stylised, slow-mot…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Hampstead theatre, LondonThis adaptation shows the nightmarish conflicts faced by Stewart as a provincial governor in Iraq but fails to connect with the bigger political pictureThere have be…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AM[SHARE]Monday, May 8, 2017
Jermyn Street theatre, LondonIn his debut as a playwright, Stephen Unwin explores the fate of disabled youths in Nazi Germany and creates an engrossing moral debateThere is an obvious diffic…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:02AM[SHARE]Sunday, May 7, 2017
Joan Littlewood's pioneering 1963 musical about the first world war not only changed attitudes towards the conflict, it remade British theatre. As the show gets a loving revival, Michael Bil…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:48PM[SHARE]National, LondonGalileo is a restless, endlessly evolving masterpiece. Brecht himself wrote three versions between 1937 and his death. David Hare has now amplified his 1994 adaptation for th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:06AM[SHARE]Saturday, May 6, 2017
Barbican, LondonHow do you recapture the shock impact of Alfred Jarry's 1896 play, with its savage portrait of a grotesque monster? Given that Jarry's play started as a schoolboy prank aimed…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24PM[SHARE]Thursday, May 4, 2017
Lyttleton, LondonTwenty five years after its first production, this eight-hour fantasia is revealed as both a document of the Aids crisis and an amply justified vision of US politicsTwo big …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PM[SHARE]Wednesday, May 3, 2017
Royal Court, London Paddy Considine stars as a reformed IRA activist in the Jerusalem playwright's deeply involving and abundant new workThe combination of Jez Butterworth as writer and Sam …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PM[SHARE]Tuesday, May 2, 2017
Minerva, ChichesterDespite stumbling over a line, Henry ended the evening looking totally assured in a Willy Russell revival that proves Lashana Lynch's star potentialThis was one of the str…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42PM[SHARE]Donmar Warehouse, London Henry exudes authority as a deadly racketeer but Bruce Norris's version of Brecht's 1941 drama tries too hard to draw parallels with the new US presidentIt is always…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24PM[SHARE]Finborough, LondonTwo sisters confront each other and the irrationality of hatred in David Ireland's blackly comic political dramaDavid Ireland is our theatre's expert at exploring the psych…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AM[SHARE]Monday, May 1, 2017
Southwark Playhouse, London A defiant duchess takes on a corrupt clergyman in this vigorous revival of James Shirley's cracking 17th-century playJames Shirley (1596-1666) is one of British t…
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