Monday, July 20, 2020
Available onlineFloods plunge Britain into a state of emergency in an engrossing audio play performed by 14- to 18-year-olds
Ben Weatherill’s audio play is set in the year 2025 when a flo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMMonday, July 6, 2020
Available onlineThe chef’s mouth-watering memoir is now a ‘part radio play, part animated film’ in which even a biscuit is a trigger for grief
Nigel Slater’s feted memoir has been re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:54PMSunday, July 5, 2020
The Booker-winning writer has returned to the stage, penning a drama defending the NHS. She talks about ‘bittersweet’ success – and getting caught up in attacks on Nicola Sturgeon
Bern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, July 2, 2020
Available onlineThis socially distanced adaptation of Sebastian Faulks’s novel cleverly moves between times and places, with only an author narration striking a wayward note
The story and …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12AMTuesday, June 30, 2020
Disney+Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical is smart, witty, funky and leaves us reflecting on America’s past and future
Hamilton was hailed as revolutionary theatre in 2015, with its rapping 18…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:54PMMonday, June 29, 2020
They’re separated by a two-metre stick but their chemistry is as strong as ever. The Crown stars on their socially-distanced take on Lungs; lockdown diets and naked drawings
Claire Foy and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:36AMFriday, June 26, 2020
Available onlineRichard Nixon’s downfall may be resonant with our age, but in Adam Donen’s experimental sound dramatisation the psychological noise drowns out the story
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMAvailable onlineThere are astute lyrics and energetic performances in this tale of a relationship, from first night to marriage to break-up
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMThursday, June 25, 2020
Available onlineA gay love triangle leads to a generational battle over queer identity in this beguiling, Zoom-broadcast comedy of manners
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:36PMWednesday, June 17, 2020
Available onlinePain, anger and everyday racism are examined in this powerful series of short films from the Bush theatre
A week ago, the Bush theatre asked six writers for their dramatised …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMMonday, June 15, 2020
Available onlineTen short plays responding to the rise in racist attacks since the beginning of the Covid-19 outbreak have a cumulative power
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:18AMWednesday, June 10, 2020
Available online In Gerry Moynihan’s monologue, recorded at the Finborough in 2017, Paul Kennedy gives a magnificent performance
Gerry Moynihan’s debut play begins in a bustling Northern…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:03PMTuesday, June 9, 2020
It would be a tragedy if the lockdown left drama narrower and risk-averse. Our chief critic hears from Kwame Kwei-Armah, Indhu Rubasingham, Lynette Linton and Rachel De-lahay
As protests ove…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:42PMMonday, June 8, 2020
BBC Radio 3A Roman soldier falls under the spell of a Pictish woman in this poetic radio play that holds up a mirror to modern Britain
Hottest front-room seats: the best theatre and dance to…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:48AMWednesday, June 3, 2020
Available onlineLee’s 2018 film of Antoinette Nwandu’s powerful play, written as a response to the shooting of Trayvon Martin, resonates after the George Floyd killing
Two homeless men i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMTuesday, June 2, 2020
Available onlineThe company’s years of operating underground inform a dynamic approach to online drama that goes far beyond talking heads
Belarus Free Theatre began rehearsing an adaptatio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:03PMThursday, May 28, 2020
Soho Theatre On DemandNaomi Sheldon fuses comedy with candour as she tracks a woman’s sexual journey from liberated teen to unfulfilled adult
‘One is not born, but rather becomes, a wom…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:54PMWednesday, May 27, 2020
Available onlinePatrick Sandford makes an astonishing dramatisation of childhood abuse and its consequences over a lifetime in this eloquent film
In 2016, Patrick Sandford performed an autob…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:32PMTuesday, May 26, 2020
Available onlineHeadlong’s superb series explores lockdown life, with a cast including Alison Steadman, Katherine Parkinson, Lennie James and Gemma Arterton
A week before the Covid-19 lock…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:54AMMonday, May 25, 2020
Available onlineThe playwright and his wife, actor Heather Stoney, play all eight parts – from 70-somethings to teenagers – in his 84th drama
Alan Ayckbourn’s hefty oeuvre lingers on t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMAs his parliamentary epic is streamed for National Theatre at Home, the playwright discusses politics of the past and present – and the future of theatre
The best theatre and dance to wat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AMSunday, May 24, 2020
Manchester international festivalBooze, music and martial-arts lessons are punctuated by existential musings in this delightfully strange virtual blowout
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMTuesday, May 19, 2020
As his novel The Understudy is turned into a radio play starring Stephen Fry, the writer talks about his own failed acting career – and what dramas will be like after the coronavirus
Long …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMAvailable onlineA starry cast muse on first bras, prom dresses, marriage and motherhood in Nora and Delia Ephron’s magnificent celebration of clothes – and life
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMSunday, May 17, 2020
Available onlineThe Apple siblings from Richard Nelson’s quartet of plays return on a Zoom call to talk about life in lockdown
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For t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMThursday, May 14, 2020
Available onlineThe story of a woman in London trying desperately to connect online with her daughter in Palestine suits these isolated times well
The best arts and entertainment during self…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMTuesday, May 12, 2020
Despite a knee injury, the actor’s lockdown has been productive – she stars in the Donmar’s online play about a mother’s relationship with her daughter
Hottest front-room seats: bes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12AMThursday, May 7, 2020
From love triangles to the bond between mothers and daughters, performers step into the relationships minefield
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The beady-eyed cha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:32AMMonday, May 4, 2020
Available onlineAd Infinitum conjure a surreal world from the Covid-19 pandemic, while Bryony Kimmings unravels flamboyantly
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The task …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06AMThursday, April 23, 2020
Artistic director says theatre sector is in ‘premier league of risk’ caused by Covid-19 and calls on increased government support for freelancers
Rufus Norris has warned that the UK’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:36AMWednesday, April 15, 2020
Available onlineTemporary Distortion’s stage scarer uses filmic elements to gripping and claustrophobic effect in a story of infidelity and murder
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AM 
