Monday, December 3, 2018
Our heroine is torn between the charms of a washing-machine inventor and a CountThe convention-challenging sexually adventurous life of Glaswegian writer Aimée Stuart is worth a play all on…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:54AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 21, 2018
West End transfer from the Almeida retains pressure-cooker intensityThis production of Tennessee Williams' neglected classic, Summer and Smoke, arrives from the Almeida into the West End wit…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:24AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 15, 2018
A daring counterintuitive reading proves richly rewardingMacbeth has rarely seemed quite as metrosexual as in this gorgeous shadow-painted production that marks artistic director at the Glob…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:32AM[SHARE]Friday, November 2, 2018
This scalpel-sharp drama anatomises marital breakdown with cold-eyed clarityAdultery seldom looks less adult than in the form of the mild-life crisis " that much-satirised condition in which…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:24AM[SHARE]Friday, October 19, 2018
Ken Urban's play is a psychological thriller crossed with a love storyThis blisteringly intense evening at Trafalgar Studios begins with two strangers in an Amsterdam hotel bedroom and …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 03:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, October 11, 2018
A disappointing portrait of middle-class hypocrisyThe playwright Bathsheba Doran has blazed a stellar trail ever since graduating from Cambridge at the same time as David Mitchell and Robert…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:18AM[SHARE]Wednesday, October 3, 2018
James Graham's Dickens project is structurally ambitious but doesn't add upIt sounds like a marriage made in heaven. Charles Dickens and James Graham " both great chroniclers of…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:42AM[SHARE]Friday, September 28, 2018
Authentic performances hit the mark"I'm not a number, I'm not a grade, and I'm not a failure." The 17-year-old girl stands in front of the small class, who gaze at her goggle-eyed. "A robot …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:36AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 20, 2018
The spirit of Magritte pervades this brand of existentialismAs the Syrian conflict enters its final convulsions, renewing memories of how the Sykes-Picot agreement " between an Englishman an…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:12AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2018
Humour used too often as a substitute for perceptionLycra, jealousy and pubescent ambition are put under the spotlight in Clare Barron's provocative probe into the American competitive danci…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 05:04AM[SHARE]Monday, August 27, 2018
Celebrates multicultural diversity with a zingA break-dancing mini Michael Jackson, a transvestite Neptune, and a hero who wears his hubris as proudly as his gold-tipped trainers, are unconv…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:04AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 26, 2018
As the manic, self-obsessed king, Rhys Ifans cuts an extraordinary presenceThe image of a raging, narcissistic tyrant, convinced that he can crush even death into oblivion, has all too many …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 04:42AM[SHARE]Thursday, July 19, 2018
A fearlessly experimental, physically ingenious exploration of the textA raw pagan vitality animates this extraordinary story about a teenage boy wrestling with tumultuous emotions in the fa…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 06:04AM[SHARE]Wednesday, July 4, 2018
Infectious fun delivered by a cast bursting with boisterous talentGender-bending, confused identities, and hedonistic anarchy go together as naturally in summer Shakespeare as strawberries a…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:06AM[SHARE]Thursday, June 28, 2018
The Faction brings fire and gumption to ShakespeareThe Faction's A Midsummer Night's Dream is a production in which women are more likely to kick ass than sleep with one " a muscular, mischi…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:54PM[SHARE]Friday, June 22, 2018
Invigorating theatre: the 1971 Manhattan feminism vs Norman Mailer debate recreatedIconoclasm, orgasms, and rampant rhetoric are all on irrepressible display in The Wooster Group's recreatio…
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 07:36AM[SHARE]Saturday, June 16, 2018
Anna Deavere Smith shines her singular light on American inequality and systemic injusticeAnna Deavere Smith contains multitudes. As the solo performance artist recounts the testimonies she …
SOURCE: The Arts Desk at 08:18AM[SHARE]Monday, June 11, 2018
Isabelle Huppert brings her customary rigour to some notorious writingsIn an era marked by virtue-signalling, it's perhaps no surprise that Isabelle Huppert " a woman who has always gone …
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