Face to face with John von Düffel: German theatre and adaptation of novels for the stage Rivka Jacobson Interviews 04/06/2015
Reviewer's Rating Proud Tim Hochstrasser 01/03/2022‘Proud’ is adapted by Bren Gosling from his novel depicting the interactions between three characters in contemporary London. Roland is...
Reviewer's Rating The Collaboration by Anthony McCarten Tim Hochstrasser 25/02/2022I was really excited to see The Collaboration for completely selfish reasons. In another life, I stage-managed a beautiful show...
Reviewer's Rating Pick A Pocket or Two – A History of British Musical Theatre By Ethan Mordden Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022This new and welcome study of the history of the musical in Britain fills -incredibly – a major gap in...
Reviewer's Rating Urinetown Tim Hochstrasser 22/02/2022This musical is unusual in at least two respects: it was both cancelled and then remade by 9/11, and it...
Reviewer's rating The Forest Tim Hochstrasser 17/02/2022This is one of those plays where it does help to read the interviews in the programme. Even more than...
Reviewer's Rating Steve: a story about modern love versus the fairytale Tim Hochstrasser 16/02/2022The Actor’s Centre, closed for some time now, reopened its doors in a blustery February renamed and rebranded as the...
Reviewer's Rating The Chairs Tim Hochstrasser 12/02/2022Less well known than ‘The Bald Primadonna’ and ‘The Lesson’, this play is perhaps the most daring and original of...
Reviewer's rating The Night Larry Kramer Kissed Me Tim Hochstrasser 10/02/2022Tucked away behind the main Edwardian wedding-cake of a theatre in Wimbledon is a black-box studio theatre currently housing a...
Reviewer's rating Theodora Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2022‘Theodora’ began life at Covent Garden as an oratorio in 1750 but has not been heard there since. However, it...
Reviewer's rating Kontakthof Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2022‘Kontakthof’ (Courtyard of Contact) was one of the breakthrough works of the celebrated German dance innovator, Pina Bausch. Dating from...
