Strikingly set in the round and adhering to a stylised minimalist set design, this revival of Zinnie Harris’ hit play is truly thought provoking. A th...
For a play which is famously bad luck among actors (they aren’t even supposed to speak its name) Flabbergast Theatre show some pluck in taking on this...
While we take Athenian tragedy as the foundation of so much of what has followed in the Western dramatic tradition, how often do we stop to think abou...
I have never seen the film that was made of The Shawshank Redemption, a novella by Stephen King that is not quite his usual kind of horro story; and n...
If I could give this production of Shakespeare’s play The Tempest more than five stars, I would. This is one of those rare productions that I believe ...
When the protagonist of our story, an outcast fairy called ‘Fairy’, meets an odd man in the forest one day, she is immediately swept up in an ordeal w...
I still remember going to the National to watch Nicholas Hytner’s production of Othello for the Olivier stage. Almost ten years have passed since that...
The brand new production by the Welsh National Opera of Janáček penultimate opera, The Makropulos Affair, is, quite simply, a brilliant, flawless pres...
On the face of it, Handel operas should not work. Bafflingly complicated plots and a long series of ‘Da Capo’ arias where the opening section repeats ...
