The School for Scandal Emily Derbyshire 16/04/2015 The vapours of eighteenth-century gossip are compared to the wind-borne whispers of rumour conveyed from one Smartphone to another in this production ...
Radiant Vermin Emily Derbyshire 04/03/2015 Rushing onto stage and hushing the pre-show music, our main characters, Gill (Gemma Whelan) and Ollie (Sean Verey) announce that the play will begin b...
Romeo and Juliet Emily Derbyshire 27/02/2015 SHAKESPEARE AT THE TOBACCO FACTORY AND TOBACCO FACTORY THEATRES Polina Kalinina’s Romeo and Juliet is in a word frenetic. It skips with juvenile di...
Holocaust Drama: The Theater of Atrocity by Gene A. Plunka Emily Derbyshire 10/02/2015 Gene A. Plunka introduces his book with the disclaimer that ‘Holocaust drama’ must take a form suitable to its subject matter; thus, for a play to dep...
Arcadia Emily Derbyshire 03/04/2014 Andrew Hilton, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory’s artistic director, chose well in pairing Tom Stoppard’s Arcadia with Shakespeare’s As You Like It....
As You Like It Emily Derbyshire 19/02/2014 As You Like It is one of those plays that we think we know: the cross-dressing, the dancing around and singing in the woods, thatspeech by Jaques, and...
