Love Me Do Sandra Lawson 02/10/2014 Laurence Marks and Maurice Gran have stepped back in time yet again with their latest play Love Me Do. Set at the time of the Cuban Missile Crisis in ...
The Rape of Lucrece Sandra Lawson 10/07/2014 This version of Shakespeare’s The Rape of Lucrece has already been performed in Scotland, Australia, Ireland, Holland and Brazil. It now comes to the ...
Fever Sandra Lawson 13/06/2014 Reza de Wet’s Fever casts a Gothic eye over the lives of two adult sisters around the time of the Boer Wars. Katy (Peta Cornish) lives a middle-class ...
Statements after an arrest under the Immorality Act Sandra Lawson 13/06/2014 For most of us in the western world Big Brother is a term coined by George Orwell in his novel 1984 and was appropriated for a popular reality televis...
Lear Sandra Lawson 07/06/2014 Phil Willmott’s idea of casting a female Lear is a bold one, which works well on some levels. It confronts the maternal vacuum in Shakespeare’s play a...
Dark Vanilla Jungle Sandra Lawson 27/03/2014 How do you explore a dysfunctional young life, moulded by a quest for love and security and the denial of those needs? How do you portray the conseque...
The Massacre at Paris Sandra Lawson 14/03/2014 This year is the 450 years since the birth of Christopher Marlowe and the Rose Bankside is the playhouse with which he is most closely associated. The...
The Good Enough Mums Club Sandra Lawson 07/03/2014 As a mother it was suggested I should see and review The Good Enough Mums Club, a production which also asks you to take part in a questionnaire befor...
Smallholding Sandra Lawson 21/02/2014 Chris Dunkley’s two-handed play for HighTide Festival Theatre premiered at the Nuffield Theatre in Southampton in April last year and tells the story ...
Dr Faustus Sandra Lawson 09/02/2014 Two Christophers can currently be found at The Rose Bankside; Christopher Marlowe’s play about John Faustus, the doctor who desired to learn more than...
