Wednesday, March 20, 2019
Southwark Playhouse, LondonThis drama inspired by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg is ripe for revival but the story asks more questions than it answers
James Phillips calls it the “perfect time…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:24AMWednesday, March 13, 2019
New productions of A Lesson from Aloes and Blood Knot forcefully portray a world of claustrophobia, surveillance and the subtleties of racial exclusion
The multiracial plays of Athol Fugard …
Linked From The Guardian at 09:56AMSunday, March 10, 2019
The award-winning actor and writer on All About Eve, celebrity culture and the perils of not actually being Welsh
Monica Dolan is a Bafta-winning actor and writer. Born in Middlesbrough, her…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:06AMFriday, March 8, 2019
Gate theatre, LondonA story from a Somali pirate kicks off this outlandish comic critique of Heart of Darkness and Apocalypse Now
Wolfram Lotz’s surreally comic critique of Joseph Conrad…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:23AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Royal Court, LondonClean Break’s satirical look at the stereotypes around life in jail ends up undone by its own artifice
Inside Bitch is a drama about drama and its misrepresentations. Fo…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:49PMMonday, March 4, 2019
Salisbury PlayhouseThis frenetic rewind for Agatha Christie’s mystery splits between Hollywood homage and send-up
In a bare room, an elderly woman sleeps in an armchair, sprained ankle on …
Linked From The Guardian at 06:54AMThursday, February 28, 2019
Royal & Derngate, NorthamptonBarney Norris’s adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Booker winner about the perils of blind duty speaks to modern Britain
‘The play must be unlike the book …
Linked From The Guardian at 11:48AMWednesday, February 20, 2019
Serving the cucumber sandwiches in a future Britain, Tara Arts and Two Gents present Oscar Wilde’s classic as an urgent tale of migrant survival – with only two actors
Ayesha Casely-Hayf…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:09AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
Playground theatre, London This attempt to delve into the disgraced movie mogul’s mind finds rage, denial and hateThe theatre’s promotional blurb warns that Steven Berkoff will go “whe…
Linked From The Guardian at 01:04PMSunday, February 10, 2019
Birmingham Repertory theatreJoe Penhall’s play about a young black patient caught between two clashing white doctors is incendiary, intellectually rich and ever topicalWhen Blue/Orange was…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, January 31, 2019
Vaults, LondonA mother and daughter have profound discussions about identity but this drama is still searching for its centreA Muslim mother and daughter are preparing for Ramadan when their…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:04AMMonday, January 21, 2019
The Egg, BathNick Makoha’s fragmented and vertiginous account of his treacherous journey to Britain is a story of our timesOn the left of the stage, a screen projects the Miltonic line: …
Linked From The Guardian at 01:54AMSaturday, January 19, 2019
With an adaptation of Noughts and Crosses set to tour the UK and her anthology of Muslim writing picked for Emma Watson’s book club, the prolific British writer is as busy as ever. Here sh…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:48AMFriday, January 11, 2019
Old Red Lion, LondonLiv Warden’s play explores what happens to the daughters of a powerful man who is charged with GBHWhere are the women closest to once-powerful predators who have been u…
Linked From The Guardian at 10:04AMMonday, January 7, 2019
Park theatre, LondonPeter Duncan gives an earnest performance in his daughter’s play about a music-hall legend with a dark pastThe Dame has a tender genesis story: writer Katie Duncan was …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:03PMThursday, December 13, 2018
Dorfman, LondonAnthony Neilson’s adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short story has a sexual frisson, schlocky gore and a shape-shifting setThe Tell-Tale Heart is Edgar Allan Poe’s short …
Linked From The Guardian at 12:24PMWednesday, November 14, 2018
Gate theatre, LondonThis inventive performance of Kincaid’s celebrated 1988 essay has the barbed satire and bold message of the original‘The thing you have always suspected about yoursel…
Linked From The Guardian at 05:42PMFriday, November 9, 2018
Theatre Royal Bath A village choir’s harmony is upset by a sly newcomer in William Gaminara’s satire of snobbery, secrets and singing contestsThe Nightingales are a group of a cappella s…
Linked From The Guardian at 04:18AMFriday, November 2, 2018
After a turn on stage as George III, the co-founder of the League is returning to horror to recreate Dracula for TV. What he finds ‘frightening and debilitating’ now, though, is leaving …
Linked From The Guardian at 12:04PMWednesday, October 31, 2018
Theatre Royal Stratford East, LondonTeenaged soccer players in the US suburbs laugh, gossip and fight in Sarah DeLappe’s playIn Sarah DeLappe’s Pulitzer-nominated debut play, the Wolves …
Linked From The Guardian at 02:48PMMonday, October 29, 2018
Arcola, LondonDaniel York Loh’s twin tale of the Chinese Labour Corps members who head to Europe during the first world world has emotional resonance but fails to come alive on stage The a…
Linked From The Guardian at 02:32AMSunday, October 28, 2018
As the award-winning writer’s new play opens at the Royal Court, the actors involved talk about breaking boundaries in British theatre and tucker green’s innovative approachBefore the Ro…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:42AMWednesday, October 24, 2018
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonA cod-scientific lecture on animal behaviour is given a comic twist in a surreal show that is too cutesyIsabella Rossellini went back to university to study anima…
Linked From The Guardian at 11:33AMThursday, October 18, 2018
Old Vic, LondonRazzle-dazzle showbiz twins bewitch and delight in an inventive, smart and saucy productionWise Children is Angela Carter’s rambunctious last novel about illegitimacy, inces…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:32PMMonday, October 8, 2018
Her hit drama The Diary of a Hounslow Girl was picked up by the BBC. Now, the fast-rising playwright is capturing the female experience of London gang culture Ambreen Razia always describes …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:18PMThursday, October 4, 2018
Curve, LeicesterHareet Deol and Jay Varsani are astonishing in this adaptation of Riaz Khan’s book about masculinity and identity “Growing up a young Pakistani boy in Leicester was tough…
Linked From The Guardian at 07:54AMTuesday, October 2, 2018
Arcola, LondonA cast of five take on more than 20 characters in Hal Coase’s experimental adaptation of the novelVirginia Woolf’s 1925 novel about a day in the life (and life in the day) …
Linked From The Guardian at 04:04PMSunday, September 30, 2018
Barbican, LondonHelen Morse and a 200-strong chorus give a majestic ode to the everyday people whose stories are buried within Homer’s epicAlice Oswald’s 2011 poem, an excavation of Home…
Linked From The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, September 26, 2018
Royal Court, LondonDebris Stevenson tells how grime became her salvation in a show that explores race, representation and authenticityIn 2003, Dizzee Rascal won the Mercury prize for the sem…
Linked From The Guardian at 12:18PMFriday, September 21, 2018
Gate theatre, LondonGuilt, anguish and female torment shape a spectacular star turn in this revival of Jean Cocteau’s study of a woman on the brinkJean Cocteau’s 50-minute monologue of a…
Linked From The Guardian at 03:48PMThursday, September 20, 2018
Print Room at the Coronet, LondonOkri holds faithfully to the philosopher-novelist’s voice and vision in a striking staging with Sam Frenchum as Meursault‘Mother died today. Or maybe yes…
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