In the Dark Lennon Hu 19/09/2026 247Sitting in the medieval stone sanctuary of St Bartholomew the Great for In the Dark, I felt a surge of...
The Seven Deadly Sins / The Human Voice Josi Steinfeld 18/09/2026 241Argentinian-Italian director Alejandro Bonatto presents Anna (The Seven Deadly Sins) and Elle (The Human Voice) as the same woman at...
Golden Boy Tim Hochstrasser 18/09/2026 254Clifford Odets is not a widely remembered name or regularly produced playwright and yet this play, when you see it,...
Reviewer's rating Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky Jad Adams 17/09/2026 260Based on Patrick Hamilton’s trilogy of the same name, this play starts with Bob, who wants to be a novelist...
The School for Wives Sara Tiron 16/09/2026 315Molière’s The School for Wives is built around an irresistibly comic premise. Arnolphe, terrified of being cuckolded, has raised the...
Reviewer's rating Crime and Punishment Jad Adams 16/09/2026 206A student alone in his room for days on end dreams of what it is to be a great man....
Cavalleria rusticana Alessandro Zummo 15/09/2026 363Cavalleria rusticana carries a danger that its own success has made almost inevitable: collapsing into a postcard of an imaginary...
The Cherry Orchard Sara Tiron 14/09/2026 243There is something familiar about the set of The Cherry Orchard at Riverside Studios. It resembles a grandmother’s living room,...
The Children Lennon Hu 13/09/2026 235Nuclear power can be both violent and passive: fission or decay. We humans can control the violence; nuclear power plants...
A Month in the Country Wilder Gutterson 13/09/2026 267Turgenev wrote about the frustrations of love, emotional paralysis and the romantic disappointments of the Russian aristocracy decades before Chekhov....
