“Bluets,” Royal Court
When does creativity become mannered? When it’s based on repetition, and repetition without...
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Tag: Monologue
“Boy Parts.” Soho Theatre
We’ve all heard of the male gaze, but what about its subversion? Overturning masculine dominance...
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On Stage And In A Wheelchair
Zhao Hongcheng has made hundreds of videos about the challenges of life as a disabled person. Now...
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“All Of It” at the Royal Court
The summer season at the Royal Court, London’s premiere new writing venue, features two plays...
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“Drive Your Plow Over The Bones Of The Dead” at the Barbican Theatre
Imagine yourself in a remote place: it could be a mountaintop, or a lost village, or the Amazon....
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Laura Horton’s “Breathless” at the Soho Theatre: Slender but Heartfelt Account of Hoarding
The female monologue is a well-established contemporary theatre form, but often the content is...
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“For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy” at Royal Court
What does it feel like to be British and black? Ryan Calais Cameron has recently emerged as the...
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“Sessions”, Soho Theatre
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
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“Sessions,” Soho Theatre
After lockdown, the stage monologue saved British theatre. At venue after venue, cash-strapped...
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“Harm” at The Bush Theatre
After months (and months) of watching theatre on screens large, medium, small and tiny, I...
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“Typical” at The Soho Theatre
As the events of last year made clear, the police have a problem with race on both sides of the...
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About “December”
Yesterday, I watched the streamed version of December, written and directed by Alexander Knott,...
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“Sea Wall”: A Profound Performance By Andrew Scott
Lockdown occasionally spawns some real delights. Like the surprise appearance of a strange...
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“Gators” at Tramp Productions
She’s an ordinary young woman, and she really doesn’t know what to think. After all, things are...
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Martin Sherman’s “Rose” in Athens
She is in her eighties when we meet her and shares with the audience the story of her life which began in a tiny Russian village, took her to Warsaw’s ghettos and a ship called The Exodus, and finally to the boardwalks of Atlantic City, the Arizona canyons and salsa-flavored nights in Miami beach.
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“5 O’clock Bells:” The Story of Lenny Breau
5 O’clock Bells, written and performed by Pierre Brault brings the artist back to the Gladstone...
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Richard Gadd’s “Baby Reindeer” at The Bush Theatre: An Obsessive Story About Obsession
True stories, even in a fictional form, have the power to grip you by the throat, furiously shake...
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José Sacristán Brings Miguel Delibes Back To The Spanish Stage
Miguel Delibes wrote his novella Señora de rojo sobre fondo gris (English title Woman In Red...
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“The Shape Of The Pain” at Wilton’s Music Hall
Pain. A world of pain. Pain. For anyone suffering from a rare condition called Complex Regional...
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Tatty Hennessy’s “A Hundred Words For Snow” At The Trafalgar Studios
Fifteen-year-old Rory, a schoolgirl on the adventure of a lifetime, is puzzled. “Why,” she asks,...
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