“Phaedra” at The National Theatre
How can old texts speak to us now? The point is not just to adapt classics, but to reimagine them...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 15th Feb 2023 | Adaptation, London, Review, United Kingdom
How can old texts speak to us now? The point is not just to adapt classics, but to reimagine them...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 18th Jan 2022 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
The National Theatre has a good record in staging classic American drama by black playwrights....
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 13th Dec 2020 | Covid-19, Review, United Kingdom
Okay, COVID-19 really sucks. This play opened and closed on the same night, 4 November, as the...
Read MorePosted by Ati Metwaly | 9th Sep 2020 | Devised Theatre, Egypt
Centenary celebrations of the National Theatre, marked with sad events such as the fires that...
Read MorePosted by Jane Baldwin | 10th Apr 2019 | Boston, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom, United States of America
The National Theatre’s production of J.B. Priestley’s 1945 An Inspector Calls now playing at...
Read MorePosted by Puskás Panni | 9th Mar 2019 | Directing, Hungary, Interview
Fear Eats the Soul (Átrium), The Crucible (Szombathely) and Richard III (Radnóti Színház) – these...
Read MorePosted by Jonathan Kalb | 15th Jan 2019 | Immersive Theatre, Review, United Kingdom, United States of America
“Immersive theater” is a gimmicky term that can be just an indiscriminate pitch nowadays for any...
Read MorePosted by Jane Clinton | 11th Apr 2018 | London, News, United Kingdom
Hamilton swept the board at the Olivier Sunday night clinching seven awards including best new...
Read MorePosted by Sigríður Jónsdóttir | 16th Sep 2017 | Iceland, Theatre and Politics
The Icelandic theatre season is about to come out of hibernation, where theatres close for the...
Read MorePosted by Aleks Sierz | 28th Aug 2017 | London, Review, Theatre and Politics, United Kingdom
Another plague is sweeping British theatre: audience participation. Instead of just sitting back...
Read MorePosted by Elizabeth Schafer | 3rd Apr 2017 | Theatre and Gender, United Kingdom
In 1602, a law student called John Manningham saw Twelfth Night, or What You Will, and wrote what...
Read MorePosted by Tom Bawden | 16th Feb 2017 | Transmedia, United Kingdom
The way media is produced and consumed has been transformed in the past decade or so thanks to...
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