Oranges and Ink Aleksandra Sakowska 03/04/2019 A new play Oranges and Ink celebrates two extraordinary women from the seventeenth century: Aphra Behn and Nell Gwyn. Behn was one of the most popular...
The Merry Wives of Windsor Aleksandra Sakowska 22/12/2018 The Royal Shakespeare Company production of The Merry Wives of Windsor is either a very good panto or a very bad staging of Shakespeare. When watching...
Richard II Aleksandra Sakowska 20/12/2018 In his adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard II, Joe Hill-Gibbins channels Beckettian grotesque with great results by focusing on exaggeration and exces...
Carmen Aleksandra Sakowska 03/12/2018 Barrie Kosky’s adaptation of Carmen is a bit hit-and-miss. There is plenty to enjoy, but aesthetically it is a crazy concoction that often distracts f...
Measure for Measure Aleksandra Sakowska 24/10/2018 Josie O’Rourke’s adaptation of Measure for Measure, probably Shakespeare’s most famous so-called problem play, is frankly unnerving and infuriating - ...
Macbeth Aleksandra Sakowska 24/10/2018 Polly Findlay’s modern costume staging of Macbeth, which transferred from the RSC to London’s Barbican, is this year’s definitive production of Shakes...
othellomacbeth Aleksandra Sakowska 17/10/2018 I do like all theatrical experiments that breathe new life into the classics and make them more relevant for our time. I am a big fan of audacious Sha...
The Woods Aleksandra Sakowska 15/09/2018 Yet another premiere of a new play at the Royal Court, this time The Woods by Robert Alan Evans, impresses and proves that contemporary British drama ...
Périclès, Prince de Tyr Aleksandra Sakowska 11/04/2018 Cheek by Jowl’s French Pericles is a surreal, funny and touching production, but its uneven energy and avant-garde, very brief adaptation of Shakespea...
Julius Caesar Aleksandra Sakowska 04/02/2018 Can you get away with a timeless, universal staging of Julius Caesar in the ever-dividing world we live in? Nicholas Hytner just did, with his tense, ...
