Titus, l’empereur – a Handelian premiere Tim Hochstrasser 05/03/2026 341This work is both real and artificial. Handel began an opera of this title, drawing evidently from Racine’s Berenice, but abandoned...
Ukraine Unbroken Tim Hochstrasser 05/03/2026 620This sequence of five short plays builds on the success of a similar exercise that Nicolas Kent put together some...
Savage Tim Hochstrasser 01/03/2026 589Writer Claudio Macor has a knack for breathing fresh dramatic life into apparently familiar historical materials and giving them a...
The Village Where No One Suffers Julie Peakman 27/02/2026 577On the anniversary of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, this comes as a timely reminder of the difficulties of life...
Bird Grove Olivia Hurton 25/02/2026 594To watch Alexi Kaye Campbell’s Bird Grove is to spend two hours contemplating how to make a literary genius. Part...
Reviewer's rating What I’d Be Jad Adams 20/02/2026 498What I’d Be starts with two girls sitting on a park bench, aged 15 and 18. Things are not right...
DONBAS Soyoon Koo 14/02/2026 488Seeing DONBAS in the claustrophobic hush of Theatre503 is a smart theatrical decision. Olga Braga’s writing, which moves cleanly between...
The Ophiolite Tim Hochstrasser 07/02/2026 673This is a play with a self-conscious literary and historical past. In his programme note, author Philip de Voni acknowledges...
★ ★ ★ ★ Chiten Theatre presents The Gambler Soyoon Koo 06/02/2026 1763The Coronet Theatre’s latest guests, Kyoto’s Chiten Theatre, have a take on Dostoevsky’s The Gambler that arrives like a hand...
The Rat Trap Tim Hochstrasser 05/02/2026 858This new-old play turned out to be an unexpected suprise. I thought I knew the Coward-canon all the way through,...
