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...
Reviewer's rating HEX Evelien van den Hondel (14) 15/12/2022When the protagonist of our story, an outcast fairy called ‘Fairy’, meets an odd man in the forest one day,...
Reviewer's rating Othello Emily Louizou 12/12/2022I still remember going to the National to watch Nicholas Hytner’s production of Othello for the Olivier stage. Almost ten...
Reviewer's rating The Makropulos Affair Mel Cooper 04/12/2022The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a...
Reviewer's rating La Bohème Mel Cooper 02/12/2022The WNO is touring a La Bohème that gets most things about the opera right. The production by Annabel Arden...
Reviewer's Rating Alcina Tim Hochstrasser 21/11/2022On the face of it, Handel operas should not work. Bafflingly complicated plots and a long series of ‘Da Capo’...
HERE Julie Peakman 16/11/2022With a nod to the ‘kitchen-sink dramas’ of the 1960s, Here is set in a dreary kitchen somewhere in the...
