Lucy Ashe trained at the Royal Ballet School before moving to Oxford University to study English Literature. She now teaches English and Drama at Harrow School; her role at the school includes directing plays and choreographing for musicals. She enjoys reviewing all theatre with particular interest in dance.
I remember studying Nijinsky’s The Rite of Spring for my A Level Dance many years ago, and finding it both terrifying and hypnotic, the drama of Strav...
William Tuckett is not satisfied with the version of Elizabeth I that history so often presents to us: a politician, a statesman, a demanding leader o...
The curtain opens on the messy aftermath of a house warming party, the clock ticking at 2.45am. Seemingly an odd opening to a play titled Beginning, t...
From the moment you arrive at The Cockpit, hidden away down the streets of Marylebone, you can be reassured that the evening will provide you with ref...
The Entertainer is in danger of becoming a dated play, no longer able to speak to an audience with the explosive energy it must have produced in 1957 ...
While Doctor Faustus may be one of Christopher Marlowe’s most daring plays, Jamie Lloyd has taken this to a new level with his bold and mischievous ad...
The point at which it last made sense is one of those rather awkward performances to write about; you know that you should have found it profound, eng...
Don’t you all want to stay and find out what Botis was trying to say? were the final words I heard as I rushed out of the theatre much later than expe...
If you love nothing more than watching impressions of iconic American films, listening to a vast range of American accents, and holding your breath as...
To start the programme with an exploration of the life and worship of the Shakers, and then to end it with a highly sensual dramatization of Adam and ...
