David Hare’s adaptation is good, but James McArdle is better in the National’s gripping new production of Ibsen’s meandering epic, Peter Gynt.
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Review: Metamorphosis (Tristan Bates)
As the audience shuffle in to Metamorphosis at the Tristan Bates Theatre, extracting themselves from coats and squeezing into seats, they are also aware of another, rather more choreographed, movement taking place. To the low thump of base, confined to the corner of the stage, an ensemble repeat the same sharp movements, trance-like. Collide Theatre’s…
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Review: Three Sisters (Almeida)
Cordelia Lynn updates Chekhov’s timeless Three Sisters into a jarring, nostalgic piece of brilliance.
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Review: Pah-La (Royal Court)
Abhishek Majumdar much-delayed Pah-La finally makes it to the Royal Court stage, but fails to deliver on its promising first half.
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Review: Shipwreck (Almeida)
Anne Washburns wide-reaching theatrical essay Shipwreck delivers a host of challenging and nuanced conclusions about living in post-truth era of Donald Trump’s America
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Review: Pinter 7 (Harold Pinter Theatre)
The riveting stage adaptation of A Slight Ache outshone its more star-studded counterpart in the final set of Pinter’s short plays
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Review: Pinter Four (Harold Pinter Theatre)
The spirit of Harold Pinter marches on in ‘Pinter Four’, which poignantly captures both his talent for humour and his abstract insight into our domestic relationships .
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Review: SHE and Stiff (White Bear Theatre)
★★★★☆ // KDC present SHE and Stiff, a solid and engrossing double bill of fringe theatre sustained by slick and committed acting
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Review: Romeo And Juliet (Barbican)
★★★☆☆ // Despite a promising set-up, the RSC’s latest production of Romeo and Juliet struggles to deliver the cutting social commentary it initially promises.
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