Reviewer's Rating Brighton Rock Max Haydon 24/02/2018Creating a stage play from a novel is a hard feat to achieve especially when it is as popular as...
Hedda Gabler Nicola Watkinson 22/02/2018The National Theatre’s production of Hedda Gabler opens with Hedda and Berte, her maid, seated on stage. While other characters...
Reviewer's Rating Hard Times Pauline Duverger 22/02/2018Can you conceive of a world where imagination is forbidden? Deborah McAndrew’s adaptation of Dickens’ 1854 novel Hard Times is...
Reviewer's Rating Elephant Harry Tennison 21/02/2018Gurpreet Kaur Bhatti’s new play is thought provoking, an open door into the living room of a family who are...
Reviewer's Rating Cilla, The Musical Mel Cooper 16/02/2018At one level this is just another well-put-together biographical show in the tried and true genre of musicals based on...
Reviewer's Rating Hamlet Megan Roberts 07/02/2018It is often hard to do Hamlet – first performed around four hundred years ago, and one of Shakespeare’s most...
Reviewer's Rating Brief Encounter William Bateman 07/02/2018Experimenting expertly with cinematic techniques, Emma Rice’s adaption of Noël Coward’s celebrated Brief Encounter, offers a spectacularly visual depiction of...
Reviewer's Rating Imperium: The Cicero Plays Mel Cooper 08/01/2018The RSC has done a remarkable job of turning Robert Harris’s Cicero Trilogy into a stage work. By summarizing the...
Reviewer's Rating A Christmas Carol Mel Cooper 18/12/2017David Edgar, who adapted Dickens’s novel Nicholas Nickleby into an 8-hour epic nearly forty years ago, has managed to adapt...
Reviewer's Rating 101 Dalmations Harry Tennison 11/12/2017odie Smith’s novel is probably recognised by most from its Disney film adaptation. Nonetheless, the image of 101 black and...
