Sunday, May 25, 2025
Bristol Old VicFlora Wilson Brown’s play spans 250 years of climate science – from 1850s New York to 2100 Svalbard – to examine what it means to bring a child into our ecologically inh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, May 12, 2025
Sherman theatre, CardiffPlay edited from 150 hours of interviews shows how working-class communities are always subject to the whims of global market forces – be those of steel or the art …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:48PMThursday, January 30, 2025
Sherman theatre, Cardiff Mared Jarman’s superb debut play, in which she stars, provides a portrait of reckless nightlife and prejudice towards disabled people
The title of Mared Jarman’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:06PMThursday, October 17, 2024
Sherman theatre, CardiffTim Price’s play links a 1980s coal miner with Odysseus in an affecting if heavy-handed mythological drama
Forty years after the 1984 miners’ strike, Tim Price�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:32PMSunday, October 13, 2024
The Other Place, Stratford-upon-AvonTwo strategists from the US and New Labour are recruited to help win a ruthless election in a former Russian colony
The New Real is bookended by scenes wh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMWednesday, June 12, 2024
Bristol Old VicGareth Farr’s account of IVF’s development is briskly directed but the science feels under-dramatised
Towards the end of Gareth Farr’s A Child of Science, which explores…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMThursday, May 23, 2024
Sherman theatre, CardiffConceptually brilliant, with complex characters and a fearless cast, Azuka Oforka’s debut play is a remarkable examination of women under colonialism with contempor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24AMThursday, April 11, 2024
Theatr Clwyd, MoldLucie Lovatt’s elaborate comedy exploring the housing crisis in rural Wales is provocative and conceptually ambitious yet still pleasingly entertaining
Caryl and Meirion …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:36AMWednesday, February 21, 2024
Sherman theatre, CardiffThere’s no shortage of smart ideas in Bethan Marlow’s drama of adolescent awakening in rural Wales, but they whiz by before they really develop
There isn’t much…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:06PMThursday, February 8, 2024
Bristol Old VicThis play with songs has pleasing performances but needs a clearer idea of what it wants to satirise
A comedy double act since their university days and now working as nannies…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMThursday, November 9, 2023
Wales Millennium Centre, CardiffThis Welsh-language retelling of an ancient myth is a huge endeavour, with great performances and lots of promise
Here is a Welsh-language theatrical rarity: …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMonday, October 30, 2023
Sherman theatre, CardiffManon Steffan Ros has translated Ionesco’s play into Welsh for this technically ambitious and compelling production
Eugène Ionesco’s absurdist classic warns tha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:07AMSunday, October 22, 2023
The Riverfront, NewportGavin Porter’s exploration of grief through the experiences and funeral traditions of the residents of Cardiff’s Butetown pays tribute to the rituals that bind a c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:37AMFriday, May 12, 2023
The Other Room, CardiffSet on the scaffolding atop a building that never gets finished, Matthew Trevannion’s two-hander is full of dazzling ideas
What goes up must come down. Gravity, ligh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMSunday, March 26, 2023
Birmingham Rep theatreWiliam Young, an actor with learning disabilities, gives an affecting, lived-in performance as Lennie in this assured adaptation of Steinbeck’s Dust Bowl classic
In …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00AMMonday, March 6, 2023
Swansea Grand theatreRichard Mylan’s grim narratives are filled with sympathy and compassion, lifted by Sophie Melville’s all-consuming and fearless performance
As noted in a programme g…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:00AMFriday, September 30, 2022
Theatr Clwyd, MoldBrisk direction, plucky performances and complex lyrics propel this original adaptation, as the hunt for a source of renewable energy comes under threat
To paraphrase that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:03AMFriday, September 23, 2022
Watermill theatre, Newbury An excellent cast animate Karla Marie Sweet’s adaptation with a drilled menace, while contemporary songs are employed to remarkable effect
Karla Marie Sweet’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:25AMThursday, July 21, 2022
The Other Room, CardiffMelding ancient stories with current crises, Tamar Williams’s clever version of Branwen’s story from the Mabinogi is elegantly directed
In a week when the climate …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:33PMThursday, July 14, 2022
Theatr ClwydBoth actors excel in Katherine Chandler’s fictionalised account of the attempted murder of a Swansea woman in 2015
Carl walks into a cafe in Swansea where Hayley works as a wai…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:54AMThursday, May 26, 2022
Theatr ClwydFifty years of a tender idyll are reimagined with dignity, grace – and the odd meta moment
At the time of her death in 1829, at the grand age of 90, Eleanor Butler had been liv…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWednesday, May 18, 2022
Sherman theatre, CardiffWhile there are some strong performances and the conceit is intriguing, this modern-day version of the classic fails to convince
Towards the end of Brad Birch’s rei…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:12AMFriday, April 8, 2022
Bristol Old VicGiles Terera’s lyrical and inventive drama about a brutal episode in British history brims with urgency, pain and ultimately pride
In November and December 1781, 132 enslave…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:48AMWednesday, March 30, 2022
Sherman theatre, CardiffThe drama may miss a beat, but the music, sleek production and talented ensemble provide a tempting treat for the soul
In the week that saw the lifting of almost al…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
Sherman theatre, CardiffThis stylish play packs a lot in and has strong performances but its darker nuances are smothered by whimsy
Performed and captioned in Welsh, English and some French,…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMWednesday, March 9, 2022
Bristol Old VicA father and daughter meet for the first time in 50 years in this evocative and powerful exploration of grief
It is August 2000. In a Seoul hotel at the second state-organised…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Sherman theatre, CardiffPanto tropes are happily pooh-poohed with a gender-swapped Scrooge and properly terrifying puppetry in Joe Murphy’s triumphant Dickens redo
Attend the tale of Ebbi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:03PMMonday, October 25, 2021
Theatr Clwyd, MoldMark Lambert is superb as a widower given a digital assistant in Tim Price’s rumination on loneliness, privacy and ethics
It is March 2020, and widower Roger (Mark Lamber…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12AMFriday, October 1, 2021
Sherman theatre, CardiffNo details are spared in Rhiannon Boyle’s frank and funny exploration of the sperm bank route to parenthood, starring the charismatic Bethan Ellis Owen
A Welsh idio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMWednesday, September 22, 2021
Theatr Clwyd, MoldKaite O’Reilly relocates August Strindberg’s classic to a Welsh stately home in postwar, post-pandemic 1921
‘What do you know about magnificence?’ asks Christine th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:18PMWednesday, September 8, 2021
Schaubühne, BerlinThe multiverse in Chris Bush’s Kein Weltuntergang, directed by Katie Mitchell, lays bare our contradictions and complicity in the climate crisis
Ambivalence and contradi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:54AM 
