Reviewer's Rating Brokeback Mountain Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2023Unbelievably, it is getting on for twenty years now since the making of the film of ‘Brokeback Mountain’. Such is...
Reviewer's Rating Leaves of Glass Tim Hochstrasser 16/05/2023This play by Philip Ridley was first shown in 2007 at the Soho Theatre where it was a considerable success...
Reviewer's Rating Jonah – Theme of the Sea Tim Hochstrasser 10/05/2023The centrepiece of this one-off concert was ‘Jonah’, a new oratorio by Ian Fletcher. But the evening as a whole...
Reviewer's Rating The Circle Tim Hochstrasser 09/05/2023Tom Littler’s first outing as the new Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre is very much in the traditions...
Reviewer's Rating Sweeney Todd Tim Hochstrasser 27/04/2023Any call ‘to attend the tale of Sweeney Todd’ summons up Broadway rather than Hoxton; but it was at the...
Reviewer's Rating F**king Men Tim Hochstrasser 27/04/2023You might well think from the confronting title and art work that goes with it that this play occupies a...
Reviewer's Rating Dancing at Lughnasa Tim Hochstrasser 25/04/2023‘Atmosphere is more real than incident, and everything is simultaneously actual and illusory’. So says, Michael, the adult narrator in...
Reviewer's Rating Animal Tim Hochstrasser 24/04/2023‘Animal’ opens at Park200 after an initial run in Manchester and winning the inaugural Through the Mill Playwriting Prize. It...
Reviewer's Rating The Good Person of Szechwan Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2023This is the 80th anniversary year of a play that has become accepted as one of Brecht’s most durable, where...
Reviewer's Rating Blue Tim Hochstrasser 21/04/2023Given the grim background to this year’s season at ENO it is more than little ironic that the programme has...
