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Harold Pinter and Samuel Beckett meet in a cricket pavilion and end up as trapped as some of the characters in their plays
Jessica Walker and Joseph Atkins bring a touch of cabaret to English Touring Opera in this intimate show, co-produced by Royal & Derngate, captured on film and directed by James Dacre wi…
If you accept the documentary verbatim style of Jews. In Their Own Words at the Royal Court, and don't mind the lack of any real drama, this is an intelligently crafted and committed piece o…
Surrey-based LynchPin Productions will be staging the European premiere of the award-winning play Apples in Winter by Jennifer Fawcett, directed by Claire Parker, at London's Playground Thea…
Most impactful in Brown Boys Swim at Soho Theatre is the unexpected ending where the actual stakes are revealed, after have been largely masked by the frivolity of the premise. There's some …
Love London Love Culture's Emma Clarendon takes a closer look at what critics have been saying about Emma Baggott's production of Anthony Neilson's play The Wonderful World of Dissocia at Th…
A story of adultery, betrayal, age discrimination, sexual exploitation, domestic violence, press intrusion, scandal, robbery… and a rescue at sea. Hardly the kind of subjects you would nec…
There is a scene in Eureka Day at the Old Vic during which the audience is roaring with laughter, but it isn't anything to do with the actors who are on stage or what they are saying. And it…
Abigail Thorn's new play The Prince takes inspiration from Shakespeare and time travel to deliver a funny and deeply original take on gender norms and expectations.
The Octagon Theatre is currently home to the world premiere of the new musical based on the novel by Markus Zusak, The Book Thief. The play begins with an introduction from our Narrator, pla…
Billed as an hilarious and heartfelt comedy for those who are thinking of starting a family, have already done so, or just love babies, betting, and Brooklyn, Over Here Theatre Company's UK …
After post-show Q&As for Tonight with Donnie Darko, Vincent River, Angry and Tender Napalm, I'm delighted to be invited to chair another discussion with Philip Ridley, one of the UK's gr…
Identity is the sum of the stories we tell ourselves. Some of these are personal, and some political. Sometimes they blend, sometimes clash. In Aaron Kilercioglu and Bilal Hasna's excellentl…
The set (by Tim Hatley) is absolutely beautiful in the much anticipated, new original play The Snail House from celebrated theatre director Richard Eyre, giving a sense of occasion and opule…
Guinea Pigs, a new play that shines a light on Britain's decades-long nuclear testing cover-up, written by the daughter of a test veteran, premieres next month at London's The Space, coincid…
It is a testament to Danny Robins' 2:22 " A Ghost Story at the Criterion Theatre that many people go back for a second viewing " this is lots of fun as you try to spot what is going on and n…
As it is, Bright Half Life has much to recommend it, especially the nimble, inventive direction of Steven Kunis which plays out under a rather beautiful kite shaped neon lighting grid (kite …
The Quality of Mercy, a new one-man play about notorious British serial killer Harold Shipman, premieres at London's Courtyard Theatre this month. Taking a break from rehearsals, writer and …
There's nothing to dislike about Unfortunate: The Untold Story of Ursula the Sea Witch, I was hooked from the first number. As a company, they have set their sights on performing in the West…
September 2020 and the pandemic was quietly raging. So too was Maureen Lipman in Hope Mill Theatre's online production of Martin Sherman's intense monologue Rose; her performance was routine…
Kyo Choi's new play, The Apology, looks at sexual slavery in the Second World War and insists that a tactical political apology isn't remotely enough for the women and their families denied …
When in 1964 Samuel Beckett (Stephen Tompkinson) and Harold Pinter (Andrew Lancel) play in the same cricket match in the Cotswolds, you might expect something out of the ordinary. Filmed liv…
In 1600 English Will Kemp triumphantly arrived in Norwich after Morris dancing the entire 125-mile journey from London. Now audiences can relive his one-man romp through the country lanes of…
A new one-man play about notorious British serial killer Harold Shipman, written by a former patient and relative of one of his victims, receives its world premiere this month in London. Tim…
Hayley McGee's monologue Age Is A Feeling at the Soho Theatre, narrating an unnamed person's life, from age 25 through the years after the they die, hones in on key episodes that irrevocably…
