Tuesday, February 23, 2021
Jemma Redgrave and Adrian Scarborough excel in Peter Barnes radio solos brought to screen
The four monologues that make up Barnes’ People were filmed in the grand surroundings of the Theat…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:33AMFriday, February 19, 2021
Adrian Lester and Danny Sapani in their skins in Lolita Chakrabarti’s new play
Contact without touch: among the many readjustments that the pandemic has brought to theatre, its demands th…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMWednesday, April 22, 2020
Nina Raine’s urgent story of hospital stress rings truer than ever today
If ever there was a “play for today”, it’s surely this.
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:12AMWednesday, February 12, 2020
Breffni Holahan’s bravura performance controls a monologue of mental malaise
There’s such remarkable symbiosis between material and performance in Irish dramatist Margaret Perry’s Coll…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:54AMThursday, January 30, 2020
A strange meeting across the boundary of race: John Kani co-stars in his two-hander with Antony Sher
John Kani’s Kunene and the King is history in microcosm. Its premiere at the RSC last y…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:24AMThursday, January 23, 2020
Ian Rickson’s exemplary production relishes the nuances of Conor McPherson's adaptation
Uncle Vanya must surely be the closest, the most essential of Chekhov’s plays, its cast – just f…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:48PMWednesday, December 11, 2019
Relocation from the Russian provinces to Sixties Biafra brings insight and immediacy
Inua Ellams’ Three Sisters plays Chekhov in the shadow of war, specifically the Nigerian-Biafran seces…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMMonday, December 9, 2019
New American drama directs a rapier wit at black stereotypes
Jackie Sibblies Drury’s Fairview comes to the Young Vic with the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for Drama under its belt, and a reputatio…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 03:18PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
David Greig’s dream-drama of cosmic loneliness is sci-fi at its most philosophical
David Greig’s reimagining of Stanisław Lem’s 1961 novel has brought a masterpiece of intellectual sc…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:36AMThursday, October 10, 2019
More manner than message in adaptation of Klaus Mann's 1930s novel
You wonder about the title of French dramatist Sam Gallet’s Mephisto [A Rhapsody], an adaptation for our days of Klaus Ma…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:24AMFriday, October 4, 2019
Questions of faith in Katori Hall’s luminous meditation on belief, doubt and miracles
The American dramatist Katori Hall has created a work of rare accomplishment in Our Lady of Kibeho, a …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 02:03PMMonday, September 30, 2019
John Simm is a strikingly intelligent Thane in a broadly theatrical production
There’s a fine balance between the cosmic and the closely crafted in director Paul Miller’s Macbeth, his fi…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 01:48PMTuesday, September 24, 2019
Christopher Hampton adapts von Horváth's novel about the mindset of totalitarianism
The only novel by the Hungarian dramatist Ödön von Horváth, Youth Without God was written in exile aft…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 12:48PMFriday, September 20, 2019
An original piece of theatre-making finds joyous exuberance, as well as sorrow, in the immigrant experience
Canadian playwright Hannah Moscovitch’s “refugee musical” – now there’s …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:42AMWednesday, September 18, 2019
Rich in empathy, dramatically raw, Alexander Zeldin's bleak study of society on the edge
Alexander Zeldin continues his devastating analysis of modern Britain in this culminating play of a…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:03AMMonday, September 9, 2019
Matthew Needham in lithe drag queen form opens new London venue
London’s latest theatre opening brings a stirring revival of Harvey Fierstein’s vital gay drama, which premiered as Torch …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 04:42PMTuesday, September 3, 2019
Florian Zeller’s play of family anguish receives a much-deserved West End transfer
A tale of teenage depression and its family resonances, Florian Zeller’s The Son has a devastating simp…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:33AMFriday, August 23, 2019
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s 2013 play is tensely dark, as well as very funny
You can’t fail to feel the ghosts in Appropriate: they are there in the very timbers of the ancient Southern pl…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:42PMMonday, July 29, 2019
New West London venue opens with a zestful spectacular to suit all ages
London’s Troubadour White City theatre has got off to a, literally, flying start.
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 09:06AMTuesday, July 16, 2019
Lean and hungry brilliance in Ned Bennett's production of Peter Shaffer
When he gave Martin Dysart, the troubled psychiatrist protagonist of Equus, a line in which he speaks about “moments…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 05:54PMThursday, June 20, 2019
Stagecraft skill and company playing meld seamlessly in Petersburg production
Lev Dodin has been artistic director of the famed Maly Drama Theatre for some three and a half decades now, ove…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 11:48AMThursday, June 13, 2019
The indelible power of Lynn Nottage’s new play confirmed in Donmar transfer
There’s a joke early on in Sweat, Lynn Nottage’s superlative drama about American working lives, in which a …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:18AMMonday, June 10, 2019
Okwui Okpokwasili’s solo performance piece is an astounding piece of theatre
It’s hard, and finally fruitless to attempt to describe Okwui Okpokwasili’s Bronx Gothic in conventional te…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:03AMThursday, June 6, 2019
Declan Donnellan riffs on Beaumont’s meta-comedy in flavoursome Russian
Declan Donnellan has a rich record of working with Russian actors: his previous walk on the Slavic side, the darkly …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 08:48AMMonday, June 3, 2019
Lenny Henry leads a strong cast in August Wilson’s 1999 play of African American identity
The huge achievement of the last two decades or so of August Wilson’s life, right up to his deat…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 06:06AMTuesday, April 2, 2019
Arthur Miller’s possession drama staged for spectacle
The Crucible is a play that speaks with unrelenting power at times of discord, most of all when the public consciousness looks ripe fo…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 07:00PMTuesday, February 12, 2019
Powerful production of Arthur Miller's play of fraternal discord, past painThere’s a sublime equilibrium to Arthur Miller’s 1968 play between the overwhelmingly heavy weight of hist…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 03:42PMThursday, February 7, 2019
The season's closing pairing presents Danny Dyer and a radio revelationIt was back to the very beginning for this final instalment of “Pinter at the Pinter”, with its pairing of A S…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:32AMFriday, February 1, 2019
Adrian Lester compels in new American drama about care and connectionThe Off Broadway production of Cost of Living two years ago brought Martyna Majok the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the …
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 03:04PMThursday, January 17, 2019
DH Lawrence's tragically inflected 1913 tale of family relationships powerfully toldThere’s a stark power to Jack Gamble’s production of DH Lawrence’s The Daughter-in-Law, which h…
Linked From theartsdesk.com at 10:48AMThursday, December 13, 2018
Love it or leave it production sends the RSC on a laboured way to EssexFor those of us who have never thought much before about links between pantomime and Shakespeare, Fiona Laird’s new M…
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