Reviewer's Rating The Good Person of Szechwan Tim Hochstrasser 23/04/2023This is the 80th anniversary year of a play that has become accepted as one of Brecht’s most durable, where...
Reviewer's rating L’Orfeo Opéra-marionnettes Josi Steinfeld 22/04/2023This sole Monaco performance was unique as it was performed entirely by puppets from the renowned Carlo Colla puppet theatre....
Reviewer's rating HAMNET Mel Cooper 22/04/2023The adaptation of the novel Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell is a fine example of ensemble work. Lolita Chakrabarti clearly understands...
Reviewer's Rating Blue Tim Hochstrasser 21/04/2023Given the grim background to this year’s season at ENO it is more than little ironic that the programme has...
Village Idiot Jad Adams 21/04/2023With its fruity language and references to gay sex, trans sex, disabled sex and characters ‘wanking off to Countryfile’, Village...
Reviewer's Rating Blackout Songs Emma Burnell 18/04/2023Anyone who has ever drunk to blackout – i.e. forgotten what they did the night before – will know that...
Reviewer's Rating Snowflakes Tim Hochstrasser 18/04/2023‘Snowflakes’ is a discomfiting but important new play that first ran at the Old Red Lion a couple of years...
Reviewer's Rating Private Lives Tim Hochstrasser 16/04/2023Each generation reworks Coward’s classic 1930 light comedy in its own image. The last time I saw it was twenty years...
Reviewer's rating Kidnapped Ben Reiss 14/04/2023After first delighting audiences three years ago with Pride and Prejudice* (*sort of), Isobel McArthur returns to the Lyceum with...
Reviewer's Rating Life is a Dream Tim Hochstrasser 14/04/2023Calderón’s ‘Life is a Dream’ (La Vida es Sueño) dates from the second phase of the Golden Age of Spanish...
