I've always found Antony and Cleopatra a bit of a slog. There, I've said it. Too many scenes which flit about all over the place, too many minor inconsequential characters, deaths which seem…
A life distilled to its essentials: 30 Million Minutes indicates the rough length of time that Dawn French had been alive at the time of her solo show recorded in its final incarnation in 20…
When DryWrite co-Artistic Director Phoebe Waller-Bridge wrote Fleabag back in 2013, it needed to be crowdfunded in order for it to be premiered at that year's Edinburgh Festival.
The problem with staging a classic novel is that everyone has a slightly different view of how it should be done " many have tried and few have fully succeeded.
This production of Lady Windermere's Fan is mostly a strong account of a play that will always be overshadowed by Earnest and a very pleasant way to spend a locked down afternoon.
Are you fed up with not being able to go out to the theatre? Don't be. There's a wealth of stuff to watch online. Here's a handy list of current opportunities. OK, so it's not quite the same…
While I can fully imagine Persona working on film " indeed it seems to be generally hailed as a masterpiece " on stage I fear it fares less well.
A review of Ten Times Table by Alan Ayckbourn currently at Richmond Theatre . Still has resonance.
A man sitting behind a table, a man sitting on the edge of an unmade bed, two men sitting on a park bench. These are the settings in the Samuel Beckett Triple Bill currently at the tiny Jerm…
If I have understood the timeline correctly the latest incarnation of Kevin Elyot's debut play Coming Clean is a revival of a revival.
"A meaningful play about a really important subject". As I left the Park Theatre having watched Eugene O'Hare's play The Weatherman, these were the sort of (overheard) comments I heard. Unfo…
A revival of the play Brexit at the King's Head Theatre, Islington is very much of the moment and stirs some classic sitcom memories.
Last night I found myself both onstage and in the audience at the same time " neat trick if you can do it and I have done… on more than one occasion.
Rob Ellis directs Ollie George Clark's new play called Cuttings at London's Hope Theatre which examines the hitherto unexplored backstage world of theatrical PR " a world that has become inc…
Inevitably writers will gravitate to the world they most often inhabit and about which they can speak with a degree of authority whether that be professionally, publically or privately.