Renaissance meets rave in director Melly Still’s lavish interpretation of ‘The Revenger’s Tragedy’. The Jacobean horror-play (currently ascribed to Middleton as opposed to...
I have the greatest respect for Gísli Orn Gardarsson and David Farr and I’m sorry the latter is leaving the Lyric, but I can’t for the life of me understand how together they...
‘The Wolves at the Window’ is the umbrella title for this collection of adaptations of numerous short stories by Saki. Played by a four-strong cast, the evening falls somewhere between...
Declan Donnellan is a great mentor to actors, but unusually this production is stronger on concept than it is on execution. Shakespeare’s bitter play is performed on a sweeping traverse stage...
‘Tell me how you’re going to sacrifice your life for the human race?’ asks groupie Helena of Jackie, the drug-addled popular-music icon whom she takes for the son of God. As...
Writer Tim Fountain and actor Bette Bourne achieved a notable portrayal of ‘stately homo’ Quentin Crisp in ‘Resident Alien’. In this new two-hander, Bourne plays powerful,...
What’s on stage? It’s as much about where, and when, and why. This is a classic example of theatre that’s all about context. It’s a celebration of Zimbabwe by a company...
She’s fat, he’s a pig. They meet, date, fall in love – and then he dumps her because his co-workers think she’s gross. Neil LaBute’s new play (which he also directs)...
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