★★★☆☆ // 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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Review: The Malady Of Death (The Barbican)
The Malady of Death, Alice Birch and Katie Mitchell’s arresting new piece of Live Cinema, arrives at the Barbican and leaves a striking impression.
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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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