London theatre reviews
‘Super Duper Close Up’ review
The Yard seems to have got verrrry into shows about the aching vacuity of modern life lately, and live art duo Made in China strike again with a smart, stylish look at social media and self-loathing, the anxiety bubbling away beneath carefully composed surfaces…
‘Macbeth’ review
Things are constantly going bump in the night in director Robert Hastie’s intimate staging of ‘Macbeth’. Voices hum, whispers fill the air, and strange knockings turn the entire wooden structure of the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse into a haunted mansion, glimmering in dirtied mirrors and candlelight…
‘A Small Place’ review
In 1988, New Yorker writer Jamaica Kincaid wrote a letter to her editor, William Shawn, to explain ‘where I came from’ – Antigua, a Caribbean island colonised by the British, who imported African slaves…
‘Hadestown’ review
Already lined up to transfer to Broadway in 2019, it would be pretty embarrassing for all involved if Rachel Chavkin’s musical theatre staging of Anaïs Mitchell’s massively acclaimed 2010 ‘folk opera’ album ‘Hadestown’ was recieved less than rapturously at the NT for what is, effectively, its warm up for New York…
‘Pinter Three’ review
Three shows in and the bills in Jamie Lloyd’s ‘Pinter at the Pinter’ season have a striking similarity to modern pop albums: there’s the advertised content, and then there are the inevitable bonus tracks…
‘Don Quixote’ review
Humour's a notoriously finicky thing: jokes that had seventeeth century Spanish courtiers snorting into their ruffs aren't guaranteed to get West End audiences rolling in the aisles…
‘VESSEL’ review
What is a vessel? It can mean a ship, a curved container used to hold liquid, or a person who is used for a particular purpose…
‘Lands’ review
Sophie Steer must have calves of steel. She must have quads of pure granite. Because for almost all of ‘Lands’, the 90-minute long hit fringe show from Bush Theatre associate artists Antler, she’s bouncing up and down on a mini trampoline (a trampette, as Google has just told me)…
‘Mirabel’ review
Well this is weird. Chris Goode, who is a bit of a big dog in the world of radical fringe theatre, has returned with his first solo show since 2014, ‘Mirabel’ and I have absolutely no idea what to make of it…
’Romeo and Juliet’ review
The RSC’s new ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is almost impressively tone deaf…
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