The Flying Dutchman at the New National Theatre Tokyo Miho Uchida 28/01/2025Richard Wagner’s The Flying Dutchman draws inspiration from the composer’s stormy sea voyage from Riga to London in 1839. In...
The Bowie Show Tim Hochstrasser 26/01/2025This was my first visit to the Golder’s Green Hippodrome, a hulking venue the size of the Coliseum, and originally...
Moby Dick Owen Davies 26/01/2025This production – part of the London International Mime Festival – is by the French-Norwegian theatre company, Plexus Polaire. To...
The Merchant of Venice Ben Reiss 24/01/2025Things you will be warned about before watching Theatre For A New Audience’s (TFANA) production of William Shakespeare’s The Merchant...
Not a Word Sofía Danailov Esteban 22/01/2025“Not a Word” is a striking portrait of what it is to be forgotten, to be alone, to be a...
Jenůfa Josi Steinfeld 21/01/2025This revival of Claus Guth’s 2021 production of Jenůfa is a triumph largely thanks to Czech conductor Jakub Hrůŝa. Making...
La Manékine Sofía Danailov Esteban 15/01/2025La Manékine is a gripping story where light intersects with darkness, and joy meets despair. Blending puppetry, storytelling, and a...
Revenge: After the Levoyah Olivia Hurton 15/01/2025Theatre is limited, we’re told, in a way that film is not. What if you wanted to write a play...
The Maids Olivia Hurton 14/01/2025Director Annie Kershaw gave us a queer Hedda Gabler in 2023 at the Reading Rep; now, in another quirky textual...
Re Chicchinella Thibault Elie 14/01/2025The play tells the absurd and surreal story of a king who finds himself with a chicken lodged inside him,...
