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Neuro-Landscapes: YOUARENOWHERE at Shoreditch Town Hall
Though it may be difficult to take in or understand, it’s like nothing you’ve seen before.
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Boldness on a Budget: Karagula at The Styx
Philip Ridley’s play is like a tangled web of weeds with just a few blooming flowers.
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Music and Suffering: Haim: In the Light of the Violin at the Print Room
The story of violinist Haïm Lipsky’s post-Auschwitz recovery drew tears from the audience.
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Theatre in Space: X at the Royal Court Theatre
In the days since I’ve left the theatre I’ve become increasingly fixated with X.
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What Would Genet Think?: Deathwatch at the Print Room
Sitting in Notting Hill’s Print Room, watching Deathwatch on the thirtieth anniversary of Genet’s death, Xenobe Purvis couldn’t help but wonder: what would Genet have made of this production?
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An Interview with Rose Lewenstein, Author of New Play Darknet
“The only way theatre can interrogate our relationship with the digital world is by embracing the live-ness.”
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An Interview with Rose Lewenstein, Author of New Play Darknet
The only way theatre can interrogate our relationship with the digital world is by embracing the live-ness that is theatre. Why go to the theatre to watch a simplistic and ...
Burrowing Deep: Bug at Found111
Panama Papers are released confirming our long existing suspicion about corruption under our noses, Bug – Tracy Letts’ play about paranoia in an Oklahoma motel room – feels timely.
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Burrowing Deep:
Tracy Letts’ play about paranoia in an Oklahoma motel room – feels timely.
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Dancing On My Own: Eggs at the VAULT Festival
Florence Keith-Roach’s Eggs, which has just finished its run at the VAULT Festival, is the mark of an impressive talent.
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VAULT Festival Round-Up: Racial Politics and Mind-Reading
In the second of our VAULT Festival round-ups, Ana Malinovic sees an Austrian mind-reader and a searing monologue on US racial politics.
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VAULT Festival Round-Up: Scots, Squids and the Olympic Games
In the first of two VAULT Festival round-ups, we survey two earnest Scotland-set plays and a gloriously silly piece of physical theatre.
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A Sting In Her Tail: The Wasp at Trafalgar Studios
Morgan Lloyd Malcolm’s new play is a study of toxic girlhood friendships and—perhaps more interestingly—their repercussions later on in life. It is gripping, draining and oddly invigorating.
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Reclaiming Woyzeck’s Marie: The Sun Shining On Her Hands at the Bread and Roses Theatre
The character of Marie in Georg Büchner’s Woyzeck is traditionally dismissed as either a harlot or an irrevelance. Cassiah Joski-Jethi’s play seeks to reclaim her.
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When Two Icons Collide: RoosevElvis at the Royal Court Theatre
Theodore Roosevelt and Elvis Presley’s lives did not intersect – but that has not prevented Brooklyn’s The TEAM, from binding them together in a heartfelt psychedelic drama.
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A Problem Play No Longer: Measure For Measure at the Young Vic
How does Joe Hill-Gibbins’ bold new production of Measure For Measure deal with Shakespeare’s “problem play”? Unproblematically, says Xenobe Purvis.
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“How Much I Lack of a Man”: Twelfth Night: A Gender Experiment at the Rose Theatre, Bankside
This year, the Rose Theatre is staging an ambitious experiment: four different versions of Twelfth Night in rep, each with a different gender permutation. It engages, amuses and disconcerts, writes ...
Shear Insanity: King Lear With Sheep at the Courtyard Theatre
Hailey Bachrach refused to believe that King Lear With Sheep existed. But then she went. And it was real. King Lear… performed by sheep.
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Your Life and Mine: The Cocktail Party at the Print Room
When Alec Guinness starred in the original 1949 production of T.S. Eliot’s The Cocktail Party, he said: “I don’t know what it means. In fact, I don’t know what meaning ...
Urban Delirium: Pomona at the National Theatre
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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