Reviewer's Rating Ben & Imo Mel Cooper 12/03/2024 1600At one level, the playwright Mark Ravenhill has created a theatrical equivalent of the film Biopic. One of the pleasures...
Reviewer's rating The Fair Maid of the West Mel Cooper 04/01/2024 5398If you want a delightful, fast-paced, cleverly written play to see, I strongly recommend The Fair Maid of the West...
Reviewer's Rating The Whip Mel Cooper 26/02/2020 2268My first impression of The Whip, newly commissioned from Juliet Gilkes Romero by the RSC, was that it was a...
Reviewer's rating The Boy in the Dress Mel Cooper 05/01/2020 1951Based on a book by David Walliams, the new Christmas-treat musical created by the RSC has all the hallmarks of...
Reviewer's Rating A Museum in Baghdad Mel Cooper 19/11/2019 2098The idea of A Museum in Baghdad is a strong one, and one that interests me a lot. The production...
Reviewer's Rating King John Mel Cooper 07/10/2019 2483Let me start by saying that the new production of Shakespeare’s too-infrequently produced play, King John, is entertaining, moving, engaging,...
Reviewer's rating Measure for Measure Mel Cooper 14/07/2019 1865Greg Doran has directed a clean and riveting production of Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure. It is a clear and easily...
Reviewer's Rating The Provoked Wife Mel Cooper 06/06/2019 2193The Provoked Wife by John Vanbrugh is given a production that it truly deserves at the RSC, pivoting cleverly between...
Reviewer's Rating The Taming of the Shrew Mel Cooper 24/04/2019 1673The new RSC production of The Taming of the Shrew is eminently worth seeing for all the right reasons and...
Reviewer's Rating Kunene and the King Mel Cooper 23/04/2019 1715What a fine play is Kunene and the King! In certain moments while attending to it I worried fleetingly that...
