Sunday, June 2, 2019
Shakespeare’s Globe, London Jealousy and lechery divert the idle rich in Elle While’s production of the Shakespeare romcom, but well-dressed schemings lack chemistry
Director Elle While …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:12PMMonday, May 27, 2019
New Diorama, LondonAn abundance of wit and one-liners can’t make up for the lack of directorial focus in SpitLip’s antiwar satire
With whip-smart humour and a stellar soundtrack, SpitLip…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:06PMTuesday, May 21, 2019
Various locations, GlasgowThis performance art festival serves up brazen tests of audience exploitation, a TV sleepover and feminist futurism
How much would you have to be paid to make a foo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMMonday, May 20, 2019
Chronic fatigue has left Amy Rosa ‘watching life through glass’. Her new show urges viewers to make vulnerability a radical act
‘We’re not taught how to process difficult emotions,�…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AMWednesday, May 15, 2019
They were a couple doing a performance about women, sex and bodily fluids. Then they broke up – and made it more explicit. Meet the duo behind Hotter
The pants arrived today. They’re bri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:33AMMonday, May 13, 2019
Shakespeare’s Globe, LondonMichelle Terry is revelatory as Hotspur and Sarah Amankwah makes a majestic Henry in a valiant if uneven trilogy
‘A good heart,” says Shakespeare’s Henry V…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:06PMTuesday, May 7, 2019
The Warren, BrightonFrom nappy challenges to a grotesque clown show about carehomes, this year’s theatre festival is full of surprises
The two performers rush behind the vulva-esque velvet…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:33AMFriday, May 3, 2019
Exeter NorthcottIt’s all for one and one for all in an enthusiastic if haphazard riot of dad jokes, dodgy accents and gleeful gallivanting
The cast of The Three Musketeers tell us they hav…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:54PMThursday, May 2, 2019
Barbican, LondonPeake’s anguished Woman goes through six rounds of fertility treatment in Julia Leigh’s adaptation of her own memoir
As part of the Barbican’s first Fertility Fest, Jul…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:12PMFriday, April 12, 2019
New Diorama, London Jesse Fox’s play about the perils of surveillance is at its best when observing the bond between sparring siblings
What makes technology scary are the unknowns: our ina…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:05AMWednesday, April 10, 2019
Derby theatreThe tales of Mowgli, Baloo and Bagheera are inventively staged with integrated sign language and a community cast
Accessibility is too often treated as an afterthought in theatr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:17AMTuesday, March 19, 2019
Above the Stag theatre, LondonChoreographer Jack Cole’s vitality is lost in Liam Burke’s play that tackles issues of ownership of women’s bodies
All high kicks and hip swings, Jack Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:10AMSunday, March 17, 2019
Liz Richardson’s new show explores the transformative qualities of a freezing cold dip. She takes us to the source of her inspiration
‘I want to jump in right now,” says Liz Richardson…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:00PMThursday, March 7, 2019
Bristol Old VicA spider-like central performance dominates a production that offers charm, hi-tech excess and a spattering of bodily fluids
Tom Mothersdale’s Richard III licks, spits and b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:32AMWednesday, March 6, 2019
Belgrade theatre, Coventry Amy Ng’s family drama has the seeds of a great story, but is undone by melodrama and parody
The definition of a good future differs significantly for three gener…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:49AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
O2 Academy, Newcastle Ill-judged jokes and a lack of wit and grit make for a tedious set from one of the queens on RuPaul’s series
In an interview with Rolling Stone, drag queen Trixie Mat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12AMWednesday, February 27, 2019
Two joyful shows – And the Rest of Me Floats and Sex Sex Men Men – use standup and striptease to discuss trans rights, pegging and the patriarchy
In their kaleidoscopic celebrations of q…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:44AMTuesday, February 26, 2019
Bush theatre, LondonEve Leigh’s new play – about grief and old age – is overbearing in its manipulative attempts to make us feel sad
It is billed as a magic show about grief but The Tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:20AMTuesday, February 19, 2019
Ustinov Studio, Bath Tanya Barfield’s 2006 play about a man meeting his ancestors asks: am I ever black or white enough?Tracing four generations backwards from 1995, Tanya Barfield’s 200…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:24AMWednesday, February 13, 2019
The Drum, PlymouthSam Steiner’s hilariously bleak show about helpline volunteers has a charming cynicism and moments of compassionIn his new play, Sam Steiner makes us beam as the world bu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:04PMFriday, February 8, 2019
Vault festival, LondonThe ethereal star – as seen in an exuberant drag act by Tom Lenk – becomes a spirit guide in this wry show about the role movies play in our livesExuberantly strang…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMWednesday, February 6, 2019
Sherman theatre, CardiffEvery emotion is tangible as Elgan Rhys’s play about a 30-something gay couple races to a violent climaxWoof is a triumph for the Sherman theatre. In Elgan Rhys’s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:24PMTuesday, February 5, 2019
Royal Court, LondonNicôle Lecky’s astute one-woman show, punctuated with rap, pins down the financial and moral dilemmas of her peersBusiness and pleasure collide and combust in Nicôle L…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:24AMFriday, February 1, 2019
'demonstrating how hard true understanding - of both oneself and of another - is to achieve': Kate Wyver writes on the NOW Festival Week 3 double bill.
The post Review: NOW19 – Greg W…
SOURCE: exeuntmagazine.com at 06:39AMFriday, January 25, 2019
Vault festival, LondonHolly Beasley-Garrigan didn’t want to perform a show about being a gay working-class woman, she tells her audience … that’s just how arts funding worksWith anger …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMWednesday, January 16, 2019
Barbican, London Les Antliaclastes’ puppet show is a bewitching ride through the dark side of fairytales with close attention to detailDarkly comic and absurdly charming, this wild gothic …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:42AMSunday, January 13, 2019
Pleasance, LondonTwo women blot out life’s blemishes with feather boas and Shirley Bassey songs until their friendship begins to sourIsolation is gilded in glitter in Annie Jenkins’ tend…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:06PMWednesday, December 19, 2018
Queen Elizabeth Hall, LondonA king’s daughter sells her unborn baby to a wicked fashion designer in a patronising show with abrasive songsMoney can’t buy love but it can buy theatre tick…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32AMSunday, December 16, 2018
Tobacco Factory, BristolBea Roberts’ adaptation is best when it amps up its visual gags, though it searches for a plot and a perspectiveThe world can be scary when everything else is bigge…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:42PMWednesday, December 12, 2018
Southbank Centre, LondonTim Etchells and Forced Entertainment present a mesmeric show in which a young cast consider what grownups tell them‘You tell us to grow up.” On a simple set of s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:48AMMonday, December 10, 2018
Belgrade theatre, CoventryA well-intentioned comedy show about female war heroes unintentionally undermines its own ambitionsWhen a panto’s biggest laughs are canned, it is not a great sig…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:54PM 
