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Category: Theatre

• Class Comedy Culture France London Satire Theatre

  God of Carnage at the Rose Theatre Kingston ***

  God of Carnage Rose Theatre Kingston, 11th February 2020 I remain ambivalent about the work of French playwright Yasmina Reza. I can see why she would wish to lampoon “middle-class” mores in her contemporary comedies of manners. There is, after all, a long and illustrious dramatic tradition of doing so.…

  May 28, 2020
• Acting Age Culture London Performance Theatre Time

  all of it at the Royal Court Theatre review *****

  all of it Royal Court Theatre, 11th February 2020 So we will have to wait for Alistair McDowall’s latest full length play The Glow at the Royal Court, postponed thanks to you know what. Mr McDowall was the pen, and brains, behind dystopian/sci-fi/mystery/thriller/social satires Brilliant Adventures, Talk Show, Captain Amazing,…

  May 27, 2020
• Agency Class Culture Family Feminism London Patriarchy Theatre

  Nora: A Doll’s House at the Young Vic review ****

  Nora: A Doll’s House Young Vic Theatre, 10th February 2020 It is not difficult to see why theatre-makers, and audiences, continue to be drawn to drawn to Ibsen’s masterpiece, now over 140 years old. First and foremost, there is the still extraordinarily powerful message. Just think what old Henrik would…

  May 27, 2020
• Culture Film Shakespeare Theatre

  My favourite lockdown theatre so far and to look forward to

  If you are, like me, a well-to-do theatre nut, missing the real thing, trying, unlike me, to fit in the panicking, worrying, exercising, zooming, reading, binge watching, baking, eating, on-line shopping, goal-satisfying, caring, and maybe working, then you have probably already been overwhelmed by the streaming opportunities already served up…

  May 13, 2020
• Colonialism Culture Empire London Race Theatre Victorian

  The Gift at the Theatre Royal Stratford East review ***

  The Gift Theatre Royal Stratford East, 8th February 2020 Another in the lengthening list of contemporary plays where the reach of ambition exceeds the grasp of execution. Janice Okoh has set her sights on “imperialism, cross-racial adoption, cultural appropriation … and tea” with her “outrageous” play set firstly, in Victorian…

  May 7, 2020
• Culture Family Horror London Puppetry Theatre

  What the Dolls Saw at the Vault Festival review ****

  What the Dolls Saw House of Macabre, Vault Festival, 5th February 2020 Off to the Vaults again, this time with the SO, to What the Dolls Saw from the all women House of Macabre company. It is a dark comedy, as one might have guessed, penned by Nic Lamont, who…

  April 26, 2020
• Culture Enlightenment Feminism History London Magic Mortality Myths Philosophy Religion Science Fiction Theatre Time

  Faustus: That Damned Woman at the Lyric Hammersmith review ***

  Faustus: That Damned Woman Lyric Hammersmith, 5th February 2020 I bet Chris Bush was good at English at school and maybe beyond. In the precis question. For she has an unerring eye/ear/pen for taking complicated/contentious/convoluted issues and dramas and rendering them explicable, topical and entertaining. Kicking off with TONY! The…

  April 25, 2020
• Culture Feminism Georgian History Justice London Patriarchy Suffolk Theatre

  The Welkin at the National Theatre review ****

  The Welkin National Theatre Lyttleton, 4th February 2020 Rural Suffolk. 1759. A court case. There was only ever going to be one companion for the Tourist’s visit to see The Welkin. Step forward MS. A Tractor Boy by upbringing, if not birth, and an expert on all things legal and…

  April 23, 2020
• Age Comedy Culture Ireland London Memory Mime Mortality Performance Theatre Time TV

  Beckett Trilogy at the Jermyn Street Theatre review ****(and some other at-home Beckett stuff)

  Beckett Trilogy: Krapp’s Last Tape, Eh Joe, The Old Tune Jermyn Street Theatre, 4th February 2020 Fragments: Beckett by Brook – Rough for Theatre I, Rockaby, Act Without Words II, Neither , Come and Go – VIMEO, Bouffes du Nord – 26th March 2020 Endgame/Rough for Theatre II – Digital…

  April 21, 2020
• Agency Culture Elizabethan England Gender History London Monarchy Patriarchy Power Theatre

  Swive at the Sam Wannamaker Playhouse review ****

  Swive Sam Wannamaker Playhouse, 3rd February 2020 I am very partial to the work of Ella Hickson. Precious Little Talent, Boys, Oil, The Writer, ANNA, all have met their, expansive, ambition. Splendid theatre with something powerful to say. With Swive she has collaborated with director Natalie Abrahami, (who marshalled cast…

  April 17, 2020