Theatre
Review: ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
I walked into the Wyndham Theatre’s production of Long Day’s Journey Into Night by Eugene O’Neill half-expecting a night at the London Theatre like any other. Beer in hand,...
“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...
“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."
Are we blind to the need for blind casting?
Perhaps the biggest debate surrounding ‘gender-blind and colour-blind’ casting (with which actors are cast regardless of the traditional race/gender of their role) is the...
Bare derrieres for bums on seats? Shock value on stage
By the time Iqbal Khan’s Anthony and Cleopatra reached its dénouement at the RSC, we were almost three hours in and, despite the production...
Stage Adaptions: Midnight’s Children
Iconic, encyclopaedic, and kaleidoscopic, Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children has garnered a healthy sense of both wariness and respect from critics and readers alike over...
A ‘Clean Break’ from crime?
After mastering the downward facing dog-chaturanga-upward
facing dog transition, my isolation development peaked and it was time to do
some work. I watched the Donmar Trilogy’s...
The Last Five Years: Review
00 Production’s
performance of The Last Five Years pulls off the ambitious project with
surprising grace. I say surprising because bringing a musical to the small
screen,...
The Last Five Years- Preview
Having watched the preview, I am excited to see and listen to the full-length production of the musical. Both Maggie Moriarty as Cathy and...
Review: Richard II
Not Way Forward Productions has managed to put up a brilliant virtual version of ‘Richard II’ in pre-recorded video format. It is well-executed -...
Ralph Fiennes: from Hamlet… to Lear?
With his aquiline nose, translucent skin and
deep pale eyes, Ralph Fiennes certainly makes an impression. And that is even before
he speaks or emotes -...
NT Live’s Twelfth Night: Review
The French philosopher and moralist Jean de la Bruyère once remarked “life is a tragedy for those who feel, and a comedy for those...
‘The Last Five Years’: discussing adaptation, distance and theatre’s survival
Imagine if you could see how your relationships would end as soon as you started them. In The Last Five Years, this premise is...
The intimacy of isolation: reflections on performing alone
“Lights up. The actor is alone” - type aspiring
playwrights all over the world, unconsciously in unison. I anticipate reading this
line (or something similar) over...
A Taste of Honey Today
A Taste of Honey, a play by the Salford-born writer Shelagh Delaney, debuted in 1958 and is widely considered to be a landmark work...
The era of digital drama
When you imagine ‘going
to the theatre’, an image of
you in your dressing gown, sitting on the sofa and eating popcorn probably
doesn’t come to mind....
Richard II, coronavirus and creativity – in conversation with Dorothy McDowell
It seems like there’s enough drama happening in the real world to justify dark theatres and empty stages. The Edinburgh Fringe has been cancelled,...
