Clare Brennan
Brilliant Adventures - review
New writing has a special kind of energy. It generates a particular charge, especially when it's performed, as here, by cracking actors in a solid production (jointly mounted by the Royal Exchange and Live Theatre, Newcastle, both companies with a strong
A Doll's House - review
Royal Exchange, Manchester "I've discovered this Christmas that the law is not what I thought
The Kite Runner - review
Nottingham Playhouse This ponderous adaptation of Khaled Hosseini's 2003 novel is lightened by master musician Hanif Khan's on-stage tabla playing and by involving performances from its 10-strong cast. Ben Turner is convincing as the guilt-ridden Amir
Sons Without Fathers - review
You know those football matches where, from that very first touch of the ball at kick-off, you can tell this is going to be a good one – and then it really is? That fluttering incredulity, all the way through – "They can't keep this up!" Sure enough,
Queen of the Nile - review
Tim Fountain's new piece operates on two levels: romantic and political. As a romance it plays out a standard story of lovelorn westerners finding fulfilment in the east.
20 Tiny Plays About Sheffield - review
Sixty people on a studio stage, hemmed on three sides by audience - they surge, they pulse; they shimmer like a shoal of fish changing direction, shiver into contraflowing eddies; they charge, roar, confront; trickle away, surge a return. So many in so sm
A Day in the Death of Joe Egg - review
All creatures are mysterious. A child with the kind of brain that doesn't allow for co-ordinated movement or communicative speech or gesture is more mysterious than most. Such a child is 10-year-old Josephine. Nicknamed Joe Egg by her parents – in black
Ignition - review
It is night. We're sitting in cars facing darkly glittering water and a distant horizon.
The American Plan - review
It's a fragile thing, this drama by multi-award-winning US playwright Richard Greenberg, written in 1990 and here receiving its British premiere.