117 stories by "Veronica Lee"
David Hare's 1998 play wasn't terribly well received when it was first produced by the Almeida; several critics regarded it as a thin work, weakly directed by Richard Eyre, and opined that L…
I, Tommy Gilded Balloon **** Everybody will be familiar with Tommy Sheridan's story, and not necessarily because they closely follow Scottish politics at their most internecine. Rather …
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Jigsy, Assembly Rooms **** Les Dennis may have started his career as a comic, and then as a presenter of cheesy, family-friendly television game shows, but of late he has been plying hi…
Mies Julie, Assembly Hall **** Miss Julie is pretty full-on at the best of times but in Yael Farber's striking new version, Strindberg's themes of class and gender are given a shocking …
What a joy this once-in-a-generation season is. From Moscow comes this free-wheeling production of Shakespeare's great morality play, and one that also makes remarkably free with the text to…
This is the Jacobean tragedy that probably gave Quentin Tarantino his best ideas - by the end of night the body count is almost in double figures through stabbings and strangulations. But ev…
With its mistaken identities, a meddling mother, a chest of precious jewels, gulling of fops and two pairs of thwarted lovers, it's easy to see Shakespearean overtones in Oliver Goldsmith's …
Conor McPherson's 2000 play is one of the Irish writer's most memorable works, and this revival comes soon after his less acclaimed latest play, The Veil, over which we shall draw, er, a dis…
The play-within-a-play device has honourable antecedents - playwrights from Thomas Kyd and Anton Chekhov, through to Bertolt Brecht and Tennessee Williams, have flirted with it, while Shakes…
"The whole world's in a terrible state of chassis," says Captain Jack Boyle more than once during Sean O'Casey's great play, set in 1922 and the second of his Dublin trilogy, bookended by Th…
If you didn't know Frederico GarcÃa Lorca's Yerma before this show, you probably wouldn't be any better informed after watching Natalie Abrahami's engaging but flawed production.read more
Sharon Gless is best known for her role as Detective Christine Cagney in Cagney & Lacey, and then to another generation in the American version of Queer as Folk and currently in the dram…
Conor McPherson has set his latest play at an interesting point in Irish " and European " history. It is 1822, post-Napoleonic wars, and Ireland is in an economic mess, with impoverished pea…
Saul Rubinek is an established actor in American television programmes such as LA Law and Frasier, where he played Daphne's fiancé Donny. Now the Canadian has turned his hand to playwriting…
It's difficult for modern theatregoers " in or beyond Ireland " to understand the extraordinary furore The Playboy of the Western World caused when it was first performed in 1907 at the Abbe…
When The Lion King first opened in London in October 1999, there were cries from some quarters that it was merely following in a long line of stage shows that had been lifted lazily from fil…
