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Tag: Orange Tree Theatre

  • Dealing With Clair at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

    Dealing With Clair Orange Tree Theatre, 30th November 2019 The Orange Tree, along with the Royal Court, must presumably be one of Martin Crimp’s favourite theatres. Whilst he has primarily been engaged with writing libretti for George Benjamin’s excellent trio of operas in recent years, Into the Little Hill, Written…

  • Losing Venice at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

    Losing Venice Orange Tree Theatre, 24th September 2018 A modicum of research was all that was required to realise that this was going to be a curious, but also intriguing, entertainment. Which is near enough exactly what it was. Jo Clifford’s play was a hit at the Edinburgh fringe when…

  • Directors’ Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre 2018 review

    Directors’ Festival 2018 Katie Johnstone **** Precious Little Talent **** In the Night-Time (Before the Sun Rises) **** Right it was a brilliant idea last year. It was a brilliant idea this year. And it will be a brilliant idea next year (Directors’ Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre review).…

  • Mayfly at the Orange Tree Theatre review *****

    Mayfly Orange Tree Theatre, 21st May 2018 A play set in a rural location about a family processing grief. Not a million miles away from the not entirely successful Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre I hear you clamour. (Nightfall at the Bridge Theatre review ***). Well yes after a fashion.…

  • An Oak Tree the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

    An Oak Tree Orange Tree Theatre, 13th May 2018 Tim Crouch’s An Oak Tree has been on my theatrical wish list for a little while now. First performed in 2005 at the Edinburgh Fringe it was, I understand, inspired by Michael Craig-Martin’s, (he of the day-glo technology), seminal work of…

  • Humble Boy at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

    Humble Boy Orange Tree Theatre, 11th April 2018 Sometimes it can be tricky to put your finger on exactly why a play doesn’t quite work for you. Other times it is easy. This was one of the latter. For me, writer Charlotte Jones lavishes so much attention on shoehorning in…

  • A (flawed) guide to London theatres

    When I was a young teenager I took to making up some very odd games. I wasn’t lonely, with a handful of very good friends as I remember, and my very earliest encounters with the ladies were amongst my most successful, since my true nature, an awkward mix of the…

  • Out of Love at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

    Out of Love Orange Tree Theatre, 6th February 2018 The second of the three co-productions with Paines Plough and Theatre Clywd and, for me, somewhat more persuasive than Black Mountain (Black Mountain at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***), though very different in subject and scope. Mind you, in both…

  • Black Mountain at the Orange Tree Theatre review ***

    Black Mountain Orange Tree Theatre, 5th February 2018 The latest in a long string of ambitious, but not outrageously so, projects from the OT, this time commissioned in conjunction with trusty partners Theatre Clywd and Paines Plough. Three plays, in rep, from OT favourites, Brad Birch, Elinor Cook and Sarah…

  • Poison at the Orange Tree theatre review ****

    Poison Orange Tree Theatre, 28th November 2017 Sometimes all you want from a play is for it to do exactly what it says on the packet. No sub-plots, symbolism, pointless characters, formal invention, stilted message. Just a powerful and involving story, well told. This is exactly what renowned Dutch playwright,…

  • Every Brilliant Thing at the Orange Tree Theatre review ****

    Every Brilliant Thing Orange Tree Theatre, 17th October 2017 This jolly looking fellow is Jonny Donahoe. He is currently the latest incumbent in the one man show, Every Brilliant Thing, at the Orange Tree Theatre. The play was originally written by Duncan Macmillan (he of People, Places and Things, Lungs,…

  • Directors’ Festival at the Orange Tree Theatre review

    Directors’ Festival 2017 Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against A Wall *** The End of Hope ***** Albert’s Boy *** Orange Tree Theatre, 26th, 27th, 28th July 2017 Now this really is a mighty fine idea. Take five short plays by some of Britain’s finest contemporary playwrights and hand them over…