Reviewer's rating As You Like It Mel Cooper 27/07/2023The new production of AS YOU LIKE IT at the RSC is simply a delight from start to finish, though...
Reviewer's rating The Return of Benjamin Lay Owen Davies 20/06/2023This a remarkable piece of storytelling from the team at the Finborough. Wallace and Rediker have an important story to...
Reviewer's rating Rigoletto René Weis FRSA 06/06/2023The new production of Rigoletto, the opening opera of the 2023 Opera Holland Park season, is a triumph. Directed by...
Reviewer's rating Unexpected Twist Mel Cooper 02/06/2023The touring company of Michael Rosen’s Unexpected Twist has reached Oxford and lives up to its very fine reputation. Adapted...
Reviewer's rating Julius Caesar Mel Cooper 06/04/2023I was certainly lucky to be at a performance of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at the RSC in Stratford that had...
Reviewer's Rating Further Than the Furthest Thing Hugo Shapero 17/03/2023Strikingly set in the round and adhering to a stylised minimalist set design, this revival of Zinnie Harris’ hit play...
Reviewer's ratings Macbeth Jad Adams 17/03/2023For a play which is famously bad luck among actors (they aren’t even supposed to speak its name) Flabbergast Theatre...
Reviewer's Rating The Egyptians Tim Hochstrasser 06/03/2023While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition,...
Reviewer's rating The Shawshank Redemption Mel Cooper 18/02/2023I have never seen the film that was made of The Shawshank Redemption, a novella by Stephen King that is...
Reviewer's Rating The Tempest Mel Cooper 13/02/2023If I could give this production of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest more than five stars, I would. This is one...
