Rufus Norris, artistic director of the National Theatre, has made a commitment to increase the volume of new work across the National’s three stages. Common by DC Moore follows the disappointing Salomé onto the largest and most difficult stage, the Olivier.
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Emma Rice, the outgoing artistic director of the Globe Theatre, is no stranger to pushing boundaries and courting the controversy that comes with creativity – and Twelfth Night is no different.
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To say the National Theatre’s revival of Tony Kushner’s Angels in America has been hotly anticipated, is an understatement. It was an instant sell out and boasts a heavy weight, award winning team. The play is divided into two parts – The Millennium Approaches and Perestroika. So, does the 7-hour double bill live up to…
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Obsession is the second of three plays as part of Toneelgroep Amsterdam’s residency at the Barbican – a follow-up to the exceptional revival of Roman Tragedies earlier this year.
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The jagged concrete outline of the Barbican Centre, in all its brutalist glory, lends itself fittingly to my mood as I enter – it is hard not to wince, at least subconsciously, at the prospect of six hours of Shakespearean text to be performed sequentially and without interval, in a language you do not speak.…
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Gun shots. Blood smatters against a fluttering white flag. A young woman lay limp and lifeless. The execution is done. Returning their rifles to an upright position, three soldiers march toward the body. Without courtesy, the woman is hoisted to a sitting position. In a remarkable show of disrespect, one of the soldiers casually wields…
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Runs until 16th April in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse Annie Ryan’s production of The White Devil plunges the audience into a dark and twisted dystopian world of lust and revenge where justice is ‘ravished’ and no one can be trusted. The Wanamaker is the perfect location for the intimacy and gore of Webster’s revenge tragedy.…
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Georgia Brown’s debut play Daddy’s Girl was a heart-warming vignette of two people trapped in very different circumstances. Eliza (Georgia Brown) is a millennial, struggling to figure out life from the confines of her room, while her dad, Terry (Mark Wingett), ‘Britain’s Most Dangerous Armed Robber’, has been locked away in prison for years. Reconnecting…
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Runs until 22 January 2017 Classical ballet – and indeed literature – has had something of a renaissance in recent years. For each great work there seems to be a modern update; a version for the current generation.
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It’s the end of the year, and what a year it’s been. From our Editor-in-Chief struggling to find anyone else to do this job and picking the most gullible looking person in her seminar, to each of us becoming physically ill from tiredness during Raindance, and rounding it off with a new website, it’s surprising…
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