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Print Room at the Coronet, London The novelist’s 2005 drama opens up arguments about assisted death and the point at which life ceases to have meaningMany of the great American novelists �…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMOlivier, LondonThere are some cracking songs in Rachel Chavkin and Anaïs Mitchell’s haunting journey through the underworldThis is a show that escapes easy definition. With music, lyrics …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMHarold Pinter theatre, LondonGreig shows nothing is now beyond her range while Evans’s physical comedy is a delight as this short-drama season highlights Pinter’s fascination with marita…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMHampstead theatre, LondonIfeyinwa Frederick’s debut play about three friends on holiday veers from comic to serious in a flashThis is a debut play by Ifeyinwa Frederick about three Essex-b…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:42AMMinerva, Chichester In Laura Wade’s bold and playful adaptation of Austen’s unfinished novel, the mutinous characters threaten to take control of the dramaI would seriously urge anyone p…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:32PMTheatre 503, London A Florida zoo curator befriends a British bat enthusiast in Lily Bevan’s engaging pair of interwoven monologuesLily Bevan is a talented writer-performer who has previou…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:06AMKiln, LondonStephen Sharkey adapts Smith’s immigrant tale with zest but struggles to contain the novel’s dizzying temporal leaps Adapting Zadie Smith’s phenomenal novel for the stage i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:42PMSouthwark Playhouse, LondonIman Qureshi’s award-winning play examines Islamic attitudes to same-sex relationships with grace and dignityEvery year the Papatango New Writing prize comes up …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMFinborough theatre, London Six dead men do not want to be buried in Irwin Shaw’s expressionist but schematic anti-war play from 1936You can applaud a play’s intentions without enjoying i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:54AMRoyal Court, LondonGenerational friction, slavery laws and police protocol all come under scrutiny in a stirring three-part study of oppressionAs she showed in her plays hang (2015) and trut…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24PMOrange Tree theatre, RichmondThis revival gains an eerie topicality, yet its ingenious study of moneyed hypocrisy makes it truly timelessBy an extraordinary quirk of fate, Martin Crimp’s 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:24AMThe Other Palace, LondonEx-service personnel work alongside professional actors in Jonathan Lewis’s ingenious piece of meta-theatreWritten and directed by Jonathan Lewis, this is a play ab…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:12PMThe playwright’s imagined confrontation with the political activist he was 50 years ago is a triumph of confessional courage – and relentless optimismWhat happened to the Sgt Pepper gene…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:24PMHampstead theatre, LondonThe Game of Thrones star plays a surly death-haunted 17-year-old whose life is changed by a book of poems and an unlikely friendshipScarcely known in Britain, Lauren…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:32AMBridge theatre, LondonJim Broadbent is brilliantly buffoonish and sadistic in Martin McDonagh’s wildly inventive dismantling of the great Danish storytellerMartin McDonagh’s new play is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:12AMAlmeida, London This parasitic rewrite treats a masterpiece as a lecture and totally overlooks Ibsen’s elusive comedyIf you want an example of the arrogance of director’s theatre, head t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:06AMRoyal Shakespeare theatre, Stratford-upon-AvonVirtuoso percussionist Evelyn Glennie provides a soundscape for Gregory Doran’s futuristic production Expectation whirls me round, to borrow a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMDorfman, LondonPlaying a single woman determined to have a child, Claudie Blakley lights up a new play by the Consent dramatistA character in Nina Raine’s vibrant new play points out that …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:54AMGielgud theatre, London Rosalie Craig and Patti LuPone star in Marianne Elliott’s reimagining of the musical about marriage and the single lifeA gender change can work wonders. It is no se…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36PMNatural History Museum, LondonCharles Darwin’s adventures aboard the HMS Beagle are told through engrossing puppetry and painterly projectionsThis is an unusual enterprise. The museum’s …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:04AMDonmar Warehouse, LondonJosie Rourke directs an ingenious production starring Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden, giving us Shakespeare’s play twiceThere are no half measures in Josie Rourke’…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMLyttelton, LondonHare’s state-of-the-nation drama pricks the mind and is supported by strong performances but it lacks momentumDavid Hare has acute antennae and in his 17th new play for th…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWyndham’s, LondonJonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins excel in Florian Zeller’s beautifully elusive play, translated by Christopher HamptonThe one sure fact about a play by Florian Zeller is…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:12PMYoung Vic, LondonThe artistic director opens his first season with a festive, expertly choreographed production but it misses Shakespeare’s blend of laughter and sadnessKwame Kwei-Armah op…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:24AMSmock Alley, Dublin Annie Ryan provides a new perspective on Arthur Miller’s short story and film in this brooding, intelligent showAnnie Ryan, who successfully adapted A Girl Is a Half-Fo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:36AMGate/Abbey theatre, DublinYaël Farber’s Hamlet offers freshly minted thrills, while Aaron Monaghan brings demonic glee to the role of Richard IIIShakespeare, unusually, dominates the two …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:24AMWilton’s Music Hall, LondonGraham and eight previously unproduced writers present stories that capture the oddity and excess of the capital Inspired by Charles Dickens’ Sketches by Boz, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:33AMMenier Chocolate Factory, London Finty Williams excels in the role first played by her mother, Judi Dench, in Hugh Whitemore’s slow-burning spy storyThis slow-burning play by Hugh Whitemor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:04AMRose theatre, KingstonKeith Allen excels as the embittered old painter in the second of Nick Dear’s two plays following the life of William HogarthThere is a palpable irony to the umbrella…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36AMHarold Pinter theatre, London Antony Sher, David Suchet and Hayley Squires are among the cast for a compelling set of works by the master playwrightJamie Lloyd has had the bold, bright idea …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMOlivier, London Simon Godwin directs a terrific and epic National Theatre production, filled with passion and delusionThis is the third production of Shakespeare’s tragedy on the Olivier s…
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