Monday, 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 11:54AMSunday, August 22, 2021
Theatr Clywd, MoldLetting the audience choose props and costumes adds both absurd and affecting possibilities to this selection of 15 new short plays
Directed by Theatr Clwyd’s artistic di…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:42PMThursday, August 19, 2021
Theatre on the Downs, BristolClear in its message and the targets of its take-downs, this play’s rhetoric is persuasive but it leaves you yearning for more
Performed in Bristol’s new pop…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32AMWednesday, June 30, 2021
Available onlineShôn Dale-Jones’s autobiographical show tells the story of his lockdown through texts, WhatsApp group chats and Zoom calls with loved ones
Like the denizens of Love Island…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMWednesday, June 16, 2021
Theatr Clwyd, MoldRhodri Meilir is brilliant as a beleaguered pizza topper inspired by the Finnish film-maker in Alan Harris’s black comedy
Originally due to be staged in spring 2020, Alan…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMFriday, May 28, 2021
Sherman theatre, CardiffA pair of piercing performances give real depth to Lisa Parry’s smart two-hander about faith and community
It is the end of the school week and precociously self-po…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:12PMFriday, March 13, 2020
Sherman theatre, Cardiff Daf James follows up his sensational 2010 play Llwyth with a return to its characters a decade on
Daf James’s Llwyth (Tribe), first staged in 2010, was a sensation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMMonday, March 2, 2020
Sophie Stone stars in Kaite O’Reilly’s show which celebrates the forgotten women of the second world war with a powerful visual language
Sophie Stone extends her right arm and lets her h…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:02PMFriday, January 24, 2020
Birmingham HippodromeSign language, speech and physical storytelling come together to interrogate history – and theatre itself
Devised from 40 hours of interviews with members of the deaf …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:12PMFriday, October 25, 2019
Various locations, MoldA brass band, choir and cast of more than 100 gathered for a heartfelt re-enactment of a dark day that left four people dead
Performed in the town’s streets and squa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMThursday, October 24, 2019
Sherman theatre, CardiffComplex women are imprisoned in a world of male buffoons in this rich and remarkably modern staging of the seminal drama – but only Hedda can escape
Having recently…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:12PMMonday, October 21, 2019
Various venues, BirminghamAided by hula hoops, raw chicken and animatronic dogs, the performers in this six-day series of shows embarked on a quest for emotional connections
Communion, empat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, September 25, 2019
Sherman, CardiffEd Thomas’s lyrical new play situates its characters in a post-cataclysmic, Beckettian nowhere in which words are all they have left
Bear Ridge Stores, a family-run butcher…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMFriday, September 13, 2019
Schaubühne, BerlinVirginia Woolf’s promiscuous poet flits between the past and the present in this rousing and spectacularly elaborate show
The titular character in Virginia Woolf’s 192…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
Chapter, CardiffChris Carnell fuses his own story with that of the classic thriller to create a lyrical study of grief and family
On a hot August day in 1968, while watching a televised broa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
Sherman theatre, CardiffKatherine Chandler’s potent new play about hedonism, violence and toxic bantz confounds expectations at every turn
Yaz doesn’t want to work in a nail bar for the …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:03AMThursday, April 25, 2019
Birmingham RepEvan Placey transforms the lead characters into women in a provocative version embraced by a brilliant young cast
Calling Birmingham Rep’s production of Jekyll & Hyde “…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
Birmingham RepEllam’s poem about a basketball-star demi-god and his goddess-mother fighting celestial beings gets a stunning out on the stage
The Half God of Rainfall tells the story of De…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:49AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
Theatr Clwyd, MoldDavid Judge fuses poetry and exquisite theatricality into a lovingly delivered personal monologue
David Judge is the writer and performer of this autobiographical monologue…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:00PMFriday, March 15, 2019
Theatr Brycheiniog, BreconKaite O’Reilly’s play challenges societal expectations of deaf and disabled women and tick-box exercises in inclusivity
Alfa, Beaty and Coral are three deaf and…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:53AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Sherman theatre, CardiffJo Clifford’s inventive and playful production gives the characters new conflicts, complexities and genders
Notwithstanding its running gags at the expense of acade…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:00AMFriday, February 8, 2019
Chapter, CardiffA damaged Carmarthen family are shaken by a newcomer in this smart and superbly acted riff on the American classicIf Amanda Wingfield and her children had lived on the coast …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06AMWednesday, January 9, 2019
Birmingham RepAndy Smith and Amund Sjølie Sveen imagine a future of radical equality and freedom in a performance that comes with its own manifestoBilled as a “performed conversation”, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Birmingham RepThis thrilling Oz of racial diversity, gender reversal and voguing androgyny is more current – and vibrant – than the MGM musicalEncountering the Birmingham Rep’s playful…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMThursday, November 29, 2018
Chapter Arts Centre, CardiffGood Cop Bad Cop present a wry, playful and genre-defying show based around the work of an early film director Phantom Rides Again! is the first in what promises …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:12AMMonday, October 22, 2018
Theatr Clwyd, MoldTwo friends raised in care meet after many years in a complex drama featuring some deeply committed performancesTowards the climax of Katherine Chandler’s Thick As Thieve…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:06AMMonday, October 15, 2018
Sherman theatre, CardiffA couple stranded in an unsettling rural landscape are haunted by the past in Meic Povey’s richly poetic drama Defi (Wyn Bowen Harries) and Mair (Morfudd Hughes) ar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18PMTuesday, September 25, 2018
An open letter signed by 40 Welsh playwrights criticising NTW doesn’t take into account audiences’ responses to the company’s recent showsLast week, Wales Arts Review published an open…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:24AM 
