The Master Builder René Weis FRSA 24/10/2026 35An ageing dramatist reinventing himself as a fictional Master Builder lies at the root of this autobiographical play; written by...
Ghosts Rivka Jacobson 22/10/2026 44A confined stage can act as a magnifying glass, bringing the smallest gestures and facial expressions into sharp focus. Yet...
Tarare Tim Hochstrasser 16/10/2026 136‘The value of a man lies not in his birth, but in his virtues’, may sound like an unexceptionable statement...
Cuban Baroque Tim Hochstrasser 12/10/2026 173‘Everything in Cuba is an excuse to dance’, said Carlos Acosta in the discussion with the audience that followed this...
The School for Wives Sara Tiron 16/09/2026 285Molière’s The School for Wives is built around an irresistibly comic premise. Arnolphe, terrified of being cuckolded, has raised the...
The Children Lennon Hu 13/09/2026 225Nuclear power can be both violent and passive: fission or decay. We humans can control the violence; nuclear power plants...
Kimberly Akimbo Tim Hochstrasser 12/09/2026 346It might seem an odd place to begin a review, but the interview in the programme that accompanies Kimberly Akimbo...
The Story Olivia Hurton 06/09/2026 396Today the news is drama. Newspapers have taken to social media platforms like TikTok and Instagram to dispense stories via...
Frankenstein Richard Voyce 29/08/2026 483Frankenstein It’s a sad fact of life that, even though I’m writing up this review of the BYMT’s Frankenstein on...
L’Occasione fa il ladro (Opportunity Makes a Thief) Josi Steinfeld 24/08/2026 633L’Occasione fa il ladro is the fourth of five one-act operas the 20-year-old Rossini composed for Venice in 1812, hurriedly...
