Drama
The Weir, Donmar Warehouse, London
With the Celtic Tiger now a famished pussycat, a fresh perspective on this 1997 play which premiered at the Royal Court, is just one of many joys of a peerless production.
Front Row: New Le Carre reviewed; The Politician's Husband; In the Fog
Arts with Mark Lawson, including Peter and Virginia Bottomley on The Politician's Husband.
I Call My Brothers - Arcola Theatre
Did you hear what happened? A car. An explosion. In the city. A crime is committed. A town paralyzed with fear. The main character in Jonas Hassen Khemiris new play is lost in a landscape of paranoia trying to act as normal. But what is normal? Who is
Pastoral - Soho Theatre
Moll thinks she’s going on holiday but something more sinister is afoot. As menacing cats and strutting voles advance, a dangerously fertile countryside just keeps on growing – humanity is on the brink. A darkly funny, powerful and highly original
Twelfth Night/ Taming of the Shrew - Propeller Theatre - UK Tour
One of Shakespeare’s best loved comedies of love and confusion, Twelfth Night tells a twisted tale of mistaken identity, transformation and deception. With a man playing a girl disguised as a boy, illusion and reality are almost indistinguishable on Pr
Blue Remembered Hills - UK Tour
On an idyllic summer afternoon in wartime, seven children play, tease and fight their day away. Willie is pretending to be a Spitfire, Raymond is dressed as a cowboy and Angela doesn’t want to share her china doll with Audrey. And while John and Peter a
As You Like It, Royal Shakespeare, Stratford-upon-Avon
Maria Aberg says she could not imagine directing this play with any Rosalind other than Pippa Nixon, whom she deems extraordinary.
Theatre review: Blue Remembered Hills, Northern Stage, Newcastle
Dennis Potter’s death in 1994 was mourned in some quarters as the passing of Britain’s greatest ever television writer.
Theatre review: The Taming of the Shrew, Rose Theatre, Kingston-upon-Thames
Propeller Arts is an all-male-troupe, which is unusual in itself when gender-blind casting in Shakespeare is on the rise and more women are taking leading male roles.