Alistair McDowall’s Pomona, which transfers to the National after an explosive run at the Orange Tree, is less a story than an urban fever dream.
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Lauren Van Schaik Smith assesses the first UK exhibition dedicated to Bau, the iconic magazine first published by the Central Association of Austrian Architects in 1965.
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Penny Woolcock’s imaginatively executed work holds a mirror up to our society – and is driven by a burning urge to give a voice to the dispossessed.
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Lochlan Bloom reviews a double bill of plays: Private View, Václav Havel’s commentary on moral compromise in a dictatorship, and Catastrophe, Beckett’s tribute to said Czech dissident.
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My mother would describe her gynecological problems to strangers. I would be trying on a pair of jeans, and I would hear “womb” or “spasm” over the curtain.
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Should opera be translated at all? Opera Up Close’s English-language version of La Traviata is currently at the Tricycle – but what it gains in clarity it loses in ...
Earlier this year, we reviewed Florence Keith-Roach’s play Love to Love to Love You at the Vaults. Now, she returns in Frenching the Bully, an online comedy about an actress ...
The excellent monologue Chef, by Litro alumnus Sabrina Mahfouz, places universal issues of life and death in an inescapably feminist frame.
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This year, the great Japanese theatre director Yukio Ninagawa turns eighty. Xenobe Purvis reviews two of his productions at the Barbican
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The Flannelettes, a new play by Richard Cameron, is a classic example of classic light-hearted social realism in the Billy Elliot vein.
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Hailey Bachrach watches three different versions of Shakespeare’s Henry V – one in Galway (at the Mick Lally Theatre) and two in London (at the Unicorn Theatre and the Wheatsheaf ...
Love, Sex & Other Foreign Policy Goals, the debut novel by The Thick of It and Peep Show writer Jesse Armstrong, is about a idealistic theatre troupe that travels to ...
Just as the Globe and Propeller present all-male Shakespeare without explaining why, Smooth-Faced Gentlemen’s all-female Titus Andronicus offers no commentary for its casting: it simply is.
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Mozart’s Die Entführung aus dem Serail relies on Turkish stereotypes, presenting problems for modern audiences. How do the innovative touring company Pop-Up Opera approach this?
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Three short Samuel Beckett plays are currently being performed at the Old Red Lion Theatre. They seem incredibly disparate – but, in fact, argues Ana Malinovic, they all share a ...
In recent years, we have seen a resurgence of “plays with music”. Burn Bright Theatre’s ambitious revival of Vernon God Little is an excellent example of the genre.
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A pop-up version of Sweeney Todd, at Harrington’s Pie an Mash Shop, is completely unsettling and completely brilliant. But should we be starting to worry about the trend for experiential ...
Philip Ridley’s darkly hilarious Radiant Vermin is his latest withering dissection of the concept of parenthood.
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Robert Holman’s new play has, at its core, five disparate but simple images. In a climate where theatre so often aspires to the cinematic, this is truly refreshing, writes Xenobe ...
Down the Rabbit Hole is a Lewis Carroll-inspired show by the troupe Airealism. The more you think about it, argues Michael Reffold, the more Alice in Wonderland and the circus ...