A Serious Play About World War II isn’t very serious. It isn’t really about World War II. If we’re being honest, it’s barely a play.
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Review: Hamilton at the West End
The ‘room’ in question is in fact the beautifully refurbished Victoria Palace Theatre which plays host to Lin-Manuel Miranda’s multi-award winning contemporary masterpiece. Through 46 gloriously varied, heart-wrenching and punchy songs, Miranda ingeniously retells the story of Alexander Hamilton and the founding fathers through the lens of current day America. The historically white founding fathers…
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A Christmas Carol at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
This festive season the RSC have presented us with a heart-warming and prescient adaption of Dickens’ classic Christmas tale: A Christmas Carol.
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Bad Roads by Natal’ya Vorozhbit
CW: Sexual Assault A lengthy, humorous monologue opens Bad Roads: a Ukrainian journalist talks of the civil war that has ravaged the country for three years and the soldier she fell in love with whilst reporting. She is a conflicted character: “how crass it is to talk about love in war!” she jokes, the guilt…
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Hommo by Thom Froy
“This is the narrative: men fuck women.”
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Twelfth Night at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre
As one half of a twin pairing myself, I’ve always been drawn to Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night; and it’s hard to imagine that Shakespeare, himself the father of twins, was not aware of the remarkable bond that twins share.
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A Psychedelic Trip of Immense Proportions: Hair The Musical at The Vaults
Hair the Musical is celebrating its 50th anniversary with a marvellous performance at The Vaults theatre in London, boasting all the psychedelic and exciting madness of the 60s in an intimate performance space.
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Romantics Anonymous: Exuberant, Hilarious, and Decadent with a Hint of Awkward
As you enter the small, intimate space of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse, you are greeted by enthusiastic actors dressed in black-and-white striped shirts and red neckerchiefs, immediately transporting you to France. You are presented with a piece of chocolate to be saved for the magical moment the play begins. Unless you’re me, who, unable to…
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Yukio Ninagawa’s Macbeth at the Barbican
Yukio Ninagawa’s Macbeth, first brought to the UK in 1987, marked the beginning of director’s international reputation for transporting the classics of western drama to a Japanese setting. Three decades later, and just a year after the director’s death, the production has once again graced our shores as part of the Ninagawa company’s world tour…
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After the Rehearsal/Persona – Toneelgroep Amsterdam
The third, and final, part of Ivan van Hove/Toneelgroop Amsterdam’s Barbican residency is a double bill of short film adaptations: both from popular Swedish writer Ingmar Bergman; both with the same cast; and both somewhat cryptic pieces covering themes of personal identity and truth in the theatre.
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