3.0★ ★ ★ Aspects of Love Tim Hochstrasser 27/05/2023 'Aspects of Love' was a great success at the back end of the 1980s, helping to make the name of Michael Ball through his association with its hit numb...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Brokeback Mountain Tim Hochstrasser 23/05/2023 Unbelievably, it is getting on for twenty years now since the making of the film of 'Brokeback Mountain'. Such is its impact that it is hard to imagin...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Leaves of Glass Tim Hochstrasser 16/05/2023 This play by Philip Ridley was first shown in 2007 at the Soho Theatre where it was a considerable success with Ben Whishaw and Maxine Peake in lead r...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ Jonah – Theme of the Sea Tim Hochstrasser 10/05/2023 The centrepiece of this one-off concert was 'Jonah', a new oratorio by Ian Fletcher. But the evening as a whole was devoted to music inspired by the s...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ The Circle Tim Hochstrasser 09/05/2023 Tom Littler's first outing as the new Artistic Director of the Orange Tree Theatre is very much in the traditions of this house - take an underperform...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Sweeney Todd Tim Hochstrasser 27/04/2023 Any call 'to attend the tale of Sweeney Todd' summons up Broadway rather than Hoxton; but it was at the Britannia Theatre, Hoxton in 1847 that this gr...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ F**king Men Tim Hochstrasser 27/04/2023 You might well think from the confronting title and art work that goes with it that this play occupies a position at the shallower end of the dramatic...
4.0★ ★ ★ ★ 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 the elegiac mon...
5.0★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 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 deserves to win many mor...
3.0★ ★ ★ The Good Person of Szechwan Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2023 This is the 80th anniversary year of a play that has become accepted as one of Brecht's most durable, where the balance between off-kilter dark humour...