Theatre
“Tragic but thought provoking”, ‘An Enemy of the People’: Review
Ibsen has re-entered the drama scene with the current production of his classic play An Enemy of the People at the Duke of York theatre this spring. With big...
“Extremely vulnerable”: Review of The Sun King
It is difficult to imagine the stiflingly intimate space of the Burton Taylor transformed...
The Oxford Revue: A Room with Revue
'a simple and clever production which ranks as one of the most enjoyable shows I've seen all year'
Dynamic, Chaotic and Physical: Review of Frantic Assembly’s Metamorphosis
"Frantic Assembly takes on a new challenge, taking a decades old Kafka novel, The Metamorphosis, and putting it to the stage in their signature physical theatre style."
Mature and Intelligent: Julius Caesar at the TS Eliot Review
"From start to finish, it was a show filled with excellent performances from leading cast members."
Review: The Entertainer
"Stage Wrong’s performance draws us into the dysfunctional, haunted world of the Rice family and insightfully pulls apart their fractures." Alice Williams reviews The Entertainer at Keble O'Reilly.
What Light Through Yonder Theatre Breaks?
This week,
we saw the death of theatre director Terry Hands, acclaimed for his founding of
the Everyman in Liverpool among various other theatrical, notably
Shakespearean, endeavours....
Review: Present Laughter
Present Laughter, a 1942 play by Noël Coward, recounts the days leading up to the departure of Gary Essendine, an actor, for his tour in Africa....
Review: Measure for Measure
In Measure for Measure, one of Shakespeare’s problem plays, Vienna is depicted as a city of vice and perdition, such that the situation seems...
Review: The Pillowman
Martin McDonagh’s jet black comedy is brought to life (and sentenced to a gruesome death) by Tom Fisher and his stellar cast.
I coughed, continuously,...
The Place of Regional Theatre
The power of identity is arguably greater today than ever before. The stale, collective “British” identity is slowly being pervaded by the vibrant diversity...
Review: Merrily We Roll Along at the Oxford Playhouse
Merrily We Roll Along begins with a bang – the peak of Franklin Shepard’s career as a Hollywood producer while he relaxes (and then enters...
Review: Nutcracker
As a child, ballet lessons made me wince in pain, but two-and-a-half hours of The English National Ballet’s The Nutcracker passed in the blink...
The Death of Theatre Monarchy
It’s January 2020 and a new controversy has arrived to add
to the Britain’s collection. Popular discussion of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s
exit from...
Review: Don Giovanni
Premiered in 1787 in Prague and in the Habsburg court in Vienna, Mozart’s Don Giovanni offered a biting social comedy. Breathing new life into...
Pantomime: does it still deserve a place on the modern theatrical scene? (Oh, yes it does!)
Emily Capon argues that pantomime (when done well) still has an important place in the modern theatre.
Review: Macbeth
Leone Van den Schrieck reviews Collarbone Productions' 'Macbeth' at the BT.
Review: American Buffalo
Frazer Martin reviews 'American Buffalo' at the Pilch.
Review: Malcolm The Miserable
Ottilie Mitchell reviews new play Malcolm The Miserable at the BT studio.
