Reviewer’s Rating Rattled Vera Mikusch 17/02/2019 3074Rachel Harper both wrote and performed Rattled based on a true story. Her acting as Em, the main character, is...
reviewer's Rating The Waiting Game Ann Pryor 17/02/2019 2462An unsettling glimpse into the dynamics of a destructive love triangle and its aftereffects, The Waiting Game is a study...
reviewer's rating Berberian Sound Studio Jack Taylor 16/02/2019 1793Sound designers are in the game of manipulation. They exploit our emotional instincts to intensify and control the dramatic experience....
Reviewer's rating The Lady from the Sea Rivka Jacobson 15/02/2019 1999This is a bilingual production, Norwegian and English, of Ibsen’s 1888 play, The Lady From the Sea. A challenge for...
Reviewer's Rating The Good Person of Szechwan Emily Louizou 13/02/2019 2953The Good Person of Szechwan is one of Bertolt Brecht’s most popular plays. Written in 1941, it is a parable...
Reviewer's Rating The Cherry Orchard Emily Louizou 13/02/2019 1771It is very unique experiencing a play in the language in which it was written, performed in a much more freeing...
Reviewer's Rating Mother’s Field Emily Louizou 13/02/2019 2265The third production that the Moscow Pushkin Drama Theatre presented at the Barbican this February was a version of Mother’s...
Reviewer's Rating Maverick Colin Macdonald 13/02/2019 2582There’s a particular challenge in trying to portray genius, which consists so much of the ineffable—in the case of Frank...
Reviewer's Rating Un Ballo in Maschera Shmuel Ben-Tovim 13/02/2019 3459This is one of Verdi’s most neglected of his great operas. However, this production makes the case well for reviving...
Reviewer's Rating A Wake in Progress Tim Hochstrasser 12/02/2019 1752Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust is running an initiative in this year’s festival in the Waterloo Vaults called...