Reviewer's Rating Carmen Owen Davies 05/03/2020This splendid production of Carmen shows off the substantial talents of the Welsh National Opera team at their best. It...
Reviewer's Rating The Marriage of Figaro Owen Davies 05/03/2020Some say that Mozart’s revolutionary opera, The Marriage of Figaro, should really be called The Marriage of Susanna. Welsh National...
Hedda Gabler Marine Furet 28/10/2019At the beginning of the Sherman Theatre’s new production of Hedda Gabler, Hedda (Heledd Gwynn) is alone on stage, her...
Reviewer's rating On Bear Ridge Marine Furet 28/09/2019Welsh playwright Ed Thomas’s return to the stage fifteen years after his previous creation opens in memorably unceremonious fashion. In...
Reviewer's Rating Crave Marine Furet 07/05/2019In Crave, four unnamed voices (C, M, B, and A) echo without ever quite responding to each other. Occasionally lines...
Reviewer's Rating Shooting Rabbits Marine Furet 03/05/2019Shooting Rabbits is not a particularly plot-driven play, yet I feel hard put to give you, reader, a very clear...
Reviewer's Rating The Taming of the Shrew Marine Furet 08/03/2019Jo Clifford’s vital re-envisioning of The Taming of the Shrew examines the darker underbelly of current explorations of gender and...
Reviewer's Rating Un Ballo in Maschera Owen Davies 19/02/2019Giuseppe Verdi often fell foul of the censors, and he was well aware that an opera about the assassination of...
Reviewer's rating The Magic Flute Owen Davies 17/02/2019How can you not love an opera that begins with the hero running on stage pursued by a giant lobster,...
Reviewer's Rating BLUE Marine Furet 09/02/2019A strong cast, a sleek production: on paper, there is a lot to like about BLUE. Rhys Warrington’s first play,...
