Tuesday, August 13, 2019
Actually has its issues as a drama and the heavily discursive competing narratives approach limits how the play is staged that can feel repetitive at times, but Ziegler has created a scenari…
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With plenty to say about the shallow foundations of political leaders hiding behind their PR machines, Jamie Lloyd’s triumphant Evita is raw, fresh and intense – “oh what a show!”
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMMonday, July 29, 2019
As the conclusion to a strong season of unusual Williams revivals, Southern Belles proves valuable and illuminating, concluding with an important moment of solidarity that leaves the audienc…
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Max Vernon’s musical The View UpStairs making its European debut at the Soho Theatre and running for just five weeks, commemorates the 1973 arson attack on a gay bar in New Orleans which w…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, July 17, 2019
Gripping performances from Clive Owen and Lia Williams, and James Macdonald’s slow-burn direction allows Tennessee Williams’ writing in The Night Of The Iguana to cast its spell.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, July 12, 2019
The staging and orchestration of the Palladium’s new version of Joseph & The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat looks to the future, as a whole new set of children fall in love with this pe…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, July 4, 2019
In The End of History Thorne shuffles various perspectives within the family, examining their different experiences of the same events from multiple angles, and while these differences drive…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 20, 2019
Bitter Wheat is not only frustratingly irresponsible in its treatment of the events that led to the #MeToo movement, it is also a poorly constructed drama.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, June 12, 2019
It is the slight rearrangement of the text and its implication for the female characters that is Nicholas Hytner’s most notable achievement here in A Midsummer Night’s Dream at the Bridg…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, June 6, 2019
However light its frame, ultimately Education, Education, Education has serious points to make about the short-termist approaches to education funding used cynically as a political tool to w…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 30, 2019
Femi Elufowoju Jr’s production of The Glass Menagerie is fascinating with the tense and vibrant second half in particular proving both gripping and illuminating
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, May 23, 2019
Thornton Wilder’s writing in Our Town feels as fresh and innovative as it must have done in the 1930s and taking an early season risk on a less conventional play ultimately pays off.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, May 16, 2019
Even a middling Tennessee Williams play – Orpheus Descending – is better than most, and this one still has plenty to say about sacrifice and suffocation in small-town America
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMFriday, May 10, 2019
It’s Marianne Elliott’s impressionistic approach that yields considerable insight into the themes of Death of a Salesman, the characters’ attachment to material possessions as indicato…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, April 24, 2019
With compelling performances from the four leads this production of All My Sons fulfils its promise, a gripping Miller tragedy that concludes with a lasting sense of devastation.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, April 17, 2019
It is a vibrant and meaningful interpretation of Chekhov’s Three Sisters that reaps rewards. Keep on an eye on this new theatre partnership, it could be around for many years to come.
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Grief on stage and in popular culture is rarely considered as a psychological state of its own but as a means or driver for other behaviour.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 07:00AMWednesday, March 27, 2019
In just six months, Jamie Lloyd’s creative team and ever-changing company of actors has utterly transformed our perspective on Harold Pinter.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 08:00AMThursday, March 21, 2019
Whether rehabilitation is truly possible for such serious crimes committed by sex offenders, Bruce Norris never really decides, leaving only a dramatically engaging but morally troubling out…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMThursday, March 14, 2019
Betrayal is everything you could hope for. The Pinter at the Pinter season has set a very high standard for itself, but what a swansong this has turned out to be.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 04:00AMTuesday, March 5, 2019
For 45 minutes the audience may be gripped, stimulated and entertained in The Jumper Factory but this remains the everyday experience of all the men who contributed to the show, and it sligh…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, February 12, 2019
This All About Eve is something quite different, same story deliberately new frame with staging that pushes at the boundaries of theatre and film.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:55PMThursday, February 7, 2019
What a difference a few months can make; when the Jamie Lloyd Company first announced its Pinter at the Pinter season finale show back in May (before Betrayal was added to the programme), th…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMWednesday, January 30, 2019
The BBC’s adaptation of Les Misérables has been a huge success, gripping Sunday night viewing for the last five weeks offering the first truly comprehensive dramatisation of Victor Hugo…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 11:00AMTuesday, January 22, 2019
Someone at the Globe may have sold their soul to the devil after all because it is the companion piece to Doctor Faustus, Dark Night of the Soul, that is exactly the kind of successful initi…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, January 15, 2019
Aspects of Love may perhaps benefit from a modern reworking to iron out the more distasteful elements, but it should be fondly remembered.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMSunday, January 6, 2019
The purpose of Jamie Lloyd’s still and contained approach is extremely well and atmospherically realised by a top-notch cast who bring such clarity to Pinter Six’s social commentary.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMSaturday, January 5, 2019
The collective works that make-up Pinter 5 feel as insightful and meaningful as any of the Pinter at the Pinter anthologies that have come before.
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 06:00AMFriday, December 21, 2018
Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play Sweat comes to London for the first time, examining the personal and local consequences of a firm’s strategic decision to change the way it ope…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMTuesday, December 18, 2018
Caroline or Change has a lot going for it and three potentially interesting plot lines that should fully engage, yet it never quite unites as tidily and explosively as it promises to do, the…
Linked From mytheatremates.com at 05:00AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Mark Ravenhill’s fascinating new play The Cane at the Royal Court Theatre examines the issues of culpability for small-scale endorsed acts of violence and the nature of justice.
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