222 stories by "Eleanor Turney"
"The people are gathering and a timeless story continues." [Contains spoilers] When you throw around words like "epic" in your publicity material, you are giving yourself a lot to live up to…
JAM (A Cure for Ageing, The Ugly Sisters), Zilla!, A Conversation with my Father, After the Rainfall, The Watery Journey of Nereus Pike. From the early-morning JAM session on Saturday right …
In a year when the world's eyes are on London, a forgotten tower steeped in history calls to be rediscovered. The people are gathering and a timeless story continues. BABEL is an immersive t…
The man who wrote Saved, with its infamous baby-stoning scene, has not mellowed. After working abroad for the best part of 25 years, Edward Bond is back in London to oversee a trilogy of his…
The Chair Plays By Edward Bond Following the success of Saved last October, the Lyric presents the UK premiere of Edward Bond’s The Chair Plays. Domestic family life struggles to survi…
It’s all a bit grim in turn-of-the-century Russia and Chekhov is the man to hammer this home. The peasants are revolting (almost) and the aristocracy is wasting away, squanderin…
The King’s Speech, currently playing at the Wyndham’s Theatre in the West End, is offering AYT readers discounted tickets to see the show. Normally £52.50, you can get tickets…
For a play about not very much, The King’s Speech is strangely compelling. There can’t be many people who haven’t seen the hugely successful film, but it’s worth noti…
The Poetry Society is offering A Younger Theatre’s readers FREE tickets to the SLAMbassadors showcase on Sunday 1 April. SLAMbassadors is the Poetry Society’s slam poetry competi…
I didn’t think the National’s production of One Man Two Guvnors  could be bettered. I am delighted to say I was wrong: the new incarnation at the Haymarket surpasses the comic…
If you can get over the fact that you’re humming along with a serial killer, you’re in for a treat. Sondheim’s score is a killer and, as the bodies mount up, this show gets…
As nabokov arts prepares for its second Arts Club at BAC next weekend, Artistic Director Joe Murphy and Associate Producer Paul Jellis give Eleanor Turney a sneak preview of what you can exp…
“It’s urgent that state-subsidised theatres continue to stage work that is not going to find an audience." That’s playwright Simon Stephens, quoted in this Guardian this we…
Gleefully irreverent and joyfully anarchic, Filter’s AÂ Midsummer Night’s Dream bursts onto the Lyric’s stage " literally. Hyemi Shin’s Lynbury Prize-winning set st…
Web Editor Eleanor Turney popped along to The Stage Events’ How to get seen by the right people, lead by John Byrne. Here, she reports back John Byrne, who writes the ‘Dear Jo…
Sean Holmes tells Eleanor Turney about Filter Theatre's forthcoming production at the Lyric Hammersmith and unveils the planning, designing and complete chaos that goes on backstage.
Eleanor Turney chats to the director and writer of Theatre503's Mathematics of the Heart about finding the perfect equation of compromise and collaboration when working together on the show.
Who would have thought double homicide could be so, well, dull? In fairness, the murders are carried out off-stage, before the action of this play starts, but playwright Emily Mann has still…
Atmospheric without ever quite becoming truly chilling, and engaging without being totally captivating, The Kreutzer Sonata is a macabre little tale of jealousy, fear and murder. The whole p…
It may have more dead babies than your average Christmas show, but Bristol Old Vic’s Coram Boy has all the other components of a knock-out. Coram Boy was first seen at the National in …
When one starts a review by remarking on how amazing the set is, it is easy to assume that this is because the other aspects of the show were less satisfactory. Rest assured that this is not…
Tell Tale Hearts' director Natasha Holmes talks to Eleanor Turney about developing new children's production The Snow Queen.
In a land far, far away (well, Europe), NIE is waiting to tell you a story, using as many inventive and genuinely clever devices and verbal or theatrical tricks as they can cram into jus…
Southwark Playhouse’s innovative and beautiful production of Howl’s Moving Castle is the first time that Diana Wynne-Jones’ novel has been brought to the stage. It i…
If musical theatre is not your thing, then this big, in-your-face, unashamedly ridiculous show is not the one to change to your mind, but if you like a bit of razzle dazzle then this deliver…
