“The Suppliant Women” at The Young Vic
Asylum is one of the most emotive words in the English language. It evokes valleys of pain,...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 25th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Asylum is one of the most emotive words in the English language. It evokes valleys of pain,...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 24th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
Lizzie Clachan’s set is a simple stone floor slanting downwards towards the audience in a warm...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 22nd Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Harry Potter has a lot to answer for. The phenomenal success of JK Rowling’s books, and of their...
Read MorePosted by Nobuko Tanaka | 21st Nov 2017 | Collaborating Across Cultures, Japan, Review, United Kingdom
One Green Bottle is a new-ish work co-written by the renowned Japanese dramatist Hideki Noda and...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 21st Nov 2017 | Acting, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Continental drama, in this era of Brexit negotiations, seems to be rarer and rarer on British...
Read MorePosted by Kate Beswick | 20th Nov 2017 | News, Theatre and Art, United Kingdom
The music video for grime artist Skepta’s award-winning single Shut Down is shot in the concrete...
Read MorePosted by Gary Shipton | 20th Nov 2017 | Festivals, London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Life-changing wealth which is won in an instant then recklessly sacrificed a second later is the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 20th Nov 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
The Second World War is central to our national imagination, yet it has been oddly absent from our...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 19th Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Is Buddhism a path to finding spiritual enlightenment — or just an excuse for not facing your...
Read MorePosted by Joe Turnbull | 19th Nov 2017 | London, News, Theatre and Dance, Theatre and Disability
Disability theatre company, Fittings Multimedia, headed by Garry Robson got an Unlimited...
Read MorePosted by Duška Radosavljević | 11th Nov 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Every soldier has a story to tell–sometimes a joke, sometimes a parable, often a tragedy. The...
Read MorePosted by Holly Williams | 10th Nov 2017 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
“Whenever I tell anybody I’m doing an adaptation of The Exorcist, the first question is: ‘Will the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Given the rather uneven record of the National Theatre at the moment, there’s already a certain...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 9th Nov 2017 | Adaptation, Immersive Theatre, London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Some site-specific theatre feels like a really good fit. You could say, in this case, that it...
Read MorePosted by Gemma Nash | 7th Nov 2017 | Interview, Theatre and Disability, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Jackie Hagan: In Skem (Skelmersdale) there’s no class system, just people with slightly nicer...
Read MorePosted by Letizia Fusini | 5th Nov 2017 | China, Chinese Theatre Abroad, London, Review, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
Founded in 1955 by the renowned Chinese theatre star Mei Lanfang, the China National Peking Opera...
Read MorePosted by Katie Grant | 5th Nov 2017 | Theatre and Gender, Theatre and Opera, United Kingdom
It’s known as the world’s oldest profession yet, for the most part, sex work remains shrouded in...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 1st Nov 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
In Bertolt Brecht’s Life of Galileo (1943), there’s a typically didactic exchange: Andrea, the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 31st Oct 2017 | London, Playwriting, Review, United Kingdom
Prolific writer Mike Bartlett is the most impressive penman to have emerged in British theatre in...
Read MorePosted by Iain Hollingshead | 30th Oct 2017 | London, Musical Theatre, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Last month, 1,601 people were left disappointed by the news that Hamilton, the American musical...
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