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: Chekhov’s First Play (Battersea Arts Centre)
Dead Centre cut savagely to the heart of a confused original script in their radically reworked adaptation of Chekhov’s First Play
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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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