Sting Wilder Gutterson 25/06/2026Sadly, the news has lately been full of stories about women abused and murdered by men, often men in positions...
The Truth Wilder Gutterson 25/06/2026There is something unmistakably French about the light-hearted frothiness of The Truth, a revival of Florian Zeller’s 2011 comedy about...
We Had a World Wilder Gutterson 14/06/2026From Eugene O’Neill’s Long Day’s Journey into Night to Tennessee Williams’s The Glass Menagerie, the theatrical canon is rich with...
A Life in Four Seasons Tim Hochstrasser 13/06/2026One of the marvels of dance, of whatever kind, is its aesthetic suppleness. It can tell stories, or embody symbolism...
Il Ritorno d’Ulisse in Patria Tim Hochstrasser 11/06/2026Ahead of its residency at the Grimeborn Festival, Ensemble OrQuesta offers a couple of Academy production at the Cockpit Theatre...
Allegra Tim Hochstrasser 09/06/2026About twenty years ago I went to the Old Vic for a performance of Alladin where the big attraction was...
Mass Wilder Gutterson 07/06/2026The title of Fran Kranz’s explosive and powerful play Mass will undoubtedly conjure images of a church service or a...
High Society Tim Hochstrasser 06/06/2026It is not uniformly the case that every play or film should or needs to be a musical, but when...
Reviewers Rating You’ve Gone Quiet Julie Peakman 05/06/2026There is a joke from the 1970s that runs ‘When God created people She put in a joke: She created...
Krapp’s Last Tape Olivia Hurton 31/05/2026Beckett was surely having fun when he conceived of Krapp’s Last Tape (1958). He christened his titular character with a...
