Ella Hickson’s “ANNA” at The National Theatre
Something is tantalizingly amiss at the National’s Dorfman Theatre. There is a headset attached to...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 26th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Something is tantalizingly amiss at the National’s Dorfman Theatre. There is a headset attached to...
Read MorePosted by Mert Dilek | 24th May 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, Russian Theatre Abroad, United Kingdom
“I’m bored, bored, bored.” The refrain, occasionally spoken but frequently felt, is at the heart...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 14th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
About a year ago, director Rebecca Frecknall electrified this venue with an award-winning revival...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th May 2019 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
Edward Hall bids farewell to this venue, where he has been artistic director since 2010, with this...
Read MorePosted by Sui He | 11th May 2019 | London, News, Taiwan, Translation, United Kingdom
In March 2019, translators, directors, performers and researchers gathered at University College...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 10th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Written only as recently as 1981, Caryl Churchill’s modern classic Top Girls has already been on...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
Superstar Sally Field has come to town. With two academy awards and countless other accolades, the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th May 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Novelist Andrea Levy’s 2004 masterpiece, Small Island, is a tribute to the Windrush Generation,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th May 2019 | London, Review, Translation, United Kingdom
Rosmersholm is considered a difficult and rarely performed play. But, judging from this...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 8th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
If British theatre often seems to lack ambition, the same cannot be said of The Half God Of...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th May 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Most new writing for the British stage is timid in subject matter, predictable in plotting and...
Read MorePosted by Ian Zarate and Haylin Cai | 27th Apr 2019 | Festivals, London, Review, United Kingdom
Turbo bubble-tea brewing, participative economic discussions, and live, squirting orgasms were...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Maggie Smith is not only a national treasure but every casting director’s go-to “old bat” (her...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 23rd Apr 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Caryl Churchill is a phenomenal artist. Not only has she written a huge body of work, but each...
Read MorePosted by Lyn Gardner | 21st Apr 2019 | Essay, London, Participatory Theatre, United Kingdom
You can read this article in French here. This series of articles, commissioned together...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Apr 2019 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Theatre can give a voice to the voiceless — but at what cost? Abhishek Majumdar, who debuted at...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 11th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Every fairy tale is a cauldron of emotion. These are tales that steam with resentments flare-up in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Contemporary British theatre loves time travel — and not just to the past. It also enjoys...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 7th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
There are plenty of plays in which a character finds their own voice. But what about stories which...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 6th Apr 2019 | London, Review, United Kingdom
Wow, what a collection of talent: this show stars Peaky Blinder Cillian Murphy, and Enda Walsh’s...
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