Theatre Review: The Tempest – Platform 4
Angry, aggressive and animalistic. Richard Nutter's Caliban, seized the attention of the audience with his knuckled hands, twisted body and taut tirades as he sprung like a dismembered sheep in his...
View ArticleTheatre Review: The Tempest – Tabacco Factory, Bristol
This production has a split personality. Close your eyes and listen to the rich soundscape of Dan Jones and Carlo Ippolito; open them and see the barest of sets. A rope and swinging lantern for the...
View ArticleReview: Julius Caesar – RSC @ The Roundhouse ****
Julius Caesar is Shakespeare’s summer blockbuster, positively bristling with action packed violence. It’s a miracle Ridley Scott and Russell Crowe haven’t got their manly mitts all over it. But maybe...
View ArticleReview: The Faction’s Twelfth Night, New Diorama ***
The Faction’s first play in their winter Rep Season at the New Diorama Theatre offers a more modern slant on Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night. Director Mark Leipacher has capitalised on his skills in...
View ArticleReview: The Taming of the Shrew, RSC, Richmond Theatre ****
To rescue The Taming of the Shrew from the charges of misogyny and reinvent it as a sexy, sharp comedy takes some prodigious talent. Thankfully, Lucy Bailey is such a one, and in her deft hands, the...
View ArticleReview: Henry V, Theatre Delicatessen ★★★★
The “sleeping sword of war” that is awoken by Henry V upon his reclaiming of land from France seems never to have lain dormant in Theatre Delicatessen’s immersive imagining of Shakespeare’s history....
View ArticleReview: As You Like It, Actors Church ★★★★★
On a grey and rainy evening, open-air promenade theatre is not necessarily the first thing on your list of things to do. However, Iris Theatre’s incredible new production of Shakespeare’s As You Like...
View ArticleReview: A Winter’s Tale, Landor ✭✭✭✭
Howard Goodall’s new musical A Winter’s Tale, inspired by Shakespeare’s play, is a strong work that shows great promise. Goodall is one of the most intriguing, unique and exciting contemporary...
View ArticleReview: Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Theatre ✭✭✭✭✭
There’s little left to say about Hamlet, every corner analysed, scrutinised and explored by scholars and practitioners alike. But David Farr, whilst remaining faithful to the text, has conjured an...
View ArticleReview: Cripple of Inishmaan, Noel Coward ✭✭✭✭
Privilege as it is to play the title character in a West End play, few actors would have wanted to be in Daniel Radcliffe’s shoes on the opening night and press performance of Martin McDonough’s...
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