You can see why they opened this on Friday 13. Anthony Neilson’s new play (he also directs) returns to the shock-horror territory of his early ’90s drama ‘Normal: The...
The show opens with Hugh Hughes personally welcoming each audience member to the theatre. Then, once we’re seated, he offers to make one of us a cup of tea, from an urn on stage. A lot of tea...
Whichever way you spin it, there’s nothing remotely sexy about a Jewish old people’s home in Hendon and a pair of 60-year-old women, even if they are lesbians, in a retirement crisis....
It’s frustrating to come out of a play that works so well on stage, and hits all its targets fair and square, but fails to push its ideas beyond the limits of what you already expect, to what...
Coming from Adam Long, one of the team behind ‘The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)’, you’d imagine that ‘Dickens Unplugged’ would offer a similar...
Enid Bagnold’s delightfully fragrant drama opened in 1956, the same year as John Osborne’s radical ‘Look Back in Anger’. While Osborne’s play put a new class of people...
It must be the moment that any artistic director dreads, when an esteemed playwright arrives with a dubious piece of work. Do you rupture the relationship by dismissing the script out of hand? Or...
I loved Chris Goode’s plangent deconstruction of ‘Three Sisters’. This improvisatory piece, where the actors are prompted by random cues, games and sheer whim to riff on the...
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