222 stories by "Eleanor Turney"
Jenna Watt’s delicate one-woman show kicked off Mayfest for me, offering up its bittersweet mix of hope and hate in a delightfully unselfconscious manner. Essentially, Flâneurs tell…
Kate Tempest is blazingly good. Everyone’s been telling me this for ages, and she won the Ted Hughes Award in March, but to see her take the stage and do her thing is mind-blowing. Usi…
There are some plays that knock you sideways. It’s not necessarily the best-written or the most moving, but there are times when something you see on stage chimes with your own circums…
Trying to cram more than 1,000 pages of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte Cristo into a two-hour show was never going to be an easy task. Company Boudin make a good stab at it but t…
The thrust of Andrew Hilton’s second Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory play of this season is simple: men are idiots. Some are more or less idiotic than others, but, in essence, none …
The hair is big and the grievances small in Mike Leigh’s 1977 play Abigail’s Party. Beverly and Laurence are married, but don’t like each other much. Angela and Tony are ma…
As Peter and Alice continues its run in the West End, Eleanor Turney talks to its young stars, Olly Alexander and Ruby Bentall, about getting started, working with Judi Dench, and playing Pe…
It’s hard not to feel a little bit grubby after watching Amanda Whittington’s play about the last woman in England to be hanged: we are invited into her life in such a way as to …
Bristol Old Vic artistic director, Tom Morris, talks to Eleanor Turney
David Auburn takes the deep complexities of maths and uses them as a subtle metaphor for human interactions, creating a piece that is so much more than the sum of its parts. Mariah Gale̵…
Tennessee Williams looms large over Richard Greenberg’s The American Plan, but this delicate tale of wasted lives and frustrated potential is not overshadowed. The piece examines the m…
There’s an awful lot to like about Tom Morris’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream, and a fair amount that doesn’t quite work. On balance, the show is a grea…
Playwright Jack Thorne on the transfer of his play Mydidae to Trafalgar Studios, working with directors and avoiding the rehearsal room.
Tom Morris’s new production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream marks his first collaboration with Handspring puppet company since War Horse. Eleanor Turney caught up with Akiya Henry (…
It helps that there’s something cadaverous about John Mackay, with his close-cropped hair and his deep-set eyes, but he makes a chillingly convincing psychopath. In Andrew Hilton’…
A mish-mash of jazz, spoken word, freestyling and stories, Tongue Fu brings together people who love words with people who love music and lets them riff. The result, as you would expect, isÃ…
Rehearsals have begun for the London production of The Book of Mormon, which previews at the Prince of Wales Theatre from 25 February 2013 " that’s next week! From South Park creators …
I’m the world’s biggest wimp. I don’t watch horror movies and a tiny bit of me is still afraid of things that go bump in the night. So I feel almost cheated to have come ou…
From uncertain beginnings to a third round of Molière via Liverpool's tenure as the European Capital of Culture, Roger McGough and Gemma Bodinetz tell Eleanor Turney why they are drawn to t…
Naked animals and Doctor Who...all in an interview with Kill The Beast, a young company making collaborative work.
A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings has been delighting audiences across the UK; having finally caught up with it at Bristol Old Vic, it’s easy to see why. Gabriel Garcia Marquez’…
From Börkur Jónsson’s ingenious upside-down set to David Farr and Gisli Örn Garðarsson’s subtle direction, this is a fantastic show. Garðarsson is also a wonderfull…
Nassim Soleimanpour cannot leave Iran. Only those who have completed their two years of military service are granted a passport, and he has not done his. Consequently, he has written a play;…
In NIE’s wonderfully quirky Hansel and Gretel, playing at Bristol’s Tobacco Factory, the traditional tale is turned on its head. All of the expected elements are there, but NIE a…
What Old Money almost succeeds in doing is taking old tropes and making them new. With a cast of walking clichés (repressed housewife, selfish daughter, senile granny, tart-with-a-heart), S…
