Drama
Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Sharon D Clarke give new voice to the classic Amen Corner
Marianne Jean-Baptiste is tiny, barely more than 5ft tall. Perched next to the hugely charismatic Sharon D Clarke, she appears cagey and fragile, with the potential to be swamped on the National Theatre’s imposing Olivier stage, where she’s taking the
Strange Interlude with Anne-Marie Duff is a mesmeric retelling of a classic
If you think Strange Interlude is long at three hours and 20 minutes, spare a thought for the audiences in 1928, who would have encountered Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize-winning experiment at its original five hours.
Laurel & Hardy - Watermill Theatre
Applauded by audiences and critics around the world, this hugely successful play is touching, funny and often surprising. It tells the fascinating, behind the silver screen story of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy - the most successful movie double-act. As
The Birthday Party - review
Blanche McIntyre is one of the flotilla of female directors coming to the forefront of British theatre.
Hard Feelings - Finborough Theatre
Commissioned by the Finborough Theatre, Defibrillator presents Doug Lucie’s chillingly funny Hard Feelings. unseen in London for nearly 25 years. Thatcher's Britain – Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the streets, in the safety of their home, a
Mission Drift’s epic tale takes in US capitalism but lacks personal engagement
Stories don’t come much bigger than this and characters rarely live so long.
The President Has Come to See You - Royal Court Theatre
Georgia is at war. Again. And the President can’t cope. So he abandons his post and flees into the city to hide in the homes of his unsuspecting civilians. An absurd comedy about cowardice and power.
Theatre Review: Rutherford and Son
ANOTHER shattering indictment of stifling domestic lives, in which the adult sons and daughter of an overpowering patriarch struggle to break free of his power and influence, is provided in Githa Sowerby's intense family drama Rutherford & Son, originally
Theatre Review: A Midsummer Night's Dream
THIS may be the most familiar of Shakespeare's comedies, yet it also casts a strangely eerie glow with its effortless blend of the natural and supernatural worlds.