Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap Mel Cooper 19/08/2015 I spent the other night in a Time Warp called Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap. I had a perfectly pleasant time living through an evening in about 1952...
The Bald Soprano Owen Davies 04/08/2015 This is a show that fizzes with ideas and enthusiasm. Written in 1950, The Bald Soprano is the first play of the French-Romanian playwright Eugene Ion...
Talking Heads Rebecca Coates 28/07/2015 These three monologues, taken from Bennett’s written-for-television series, have many things in common. They are stories of isolation, of loneliness, ...
Saul Alastair White 25/07/2015 Barrie Kosky, Australian opera and theatre director, debut at this Glyndebourne premiere of Handel’s Saul is an exhilarating experience. The curtai...
Female Transport Rebecca Coates 24/07/2015 There’s been a surge in interest in women’s prison dramas following the success of Netflix series Orange Is The New Black, andFemale Transport takes t...
Volpone Mel Cooper 16/07/2015 Trevor Nunn has created a strikingly intelligent production of Volpone that is very sharp indeed in its observations of the corruption of a class-ridd...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Mel Cooper 15/07/2015 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time has been an awards magnet and one can see why in this touring production of the National Theatre sho...
4.48 Psychosis Nicola Watkinson 08/07/2015 To enter the crypt where this play is staged, the audience must first push past obstacles in the entrance - although they are light and easily-moved, ...
Every Brilliant Thing Nicola Watkinson 08/07/2015 Poignant, funny, serious, naive, sophisticated... Every Brilliant Thing is an outstanding piece of theatre. The venue, a pop-up theatre that is assemb...
Love Me Tender Mel Cooper 07/07/2015 It is my growing opinion that the modern compendium musical is the replacement for old time vaudeville or music hall: for a popular entertainment that...